European Go Congress 2020 in Ukraine

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Articles | 02.09.2019 19:55 | Comments: 5

An announcement of the European Go Congress 2020, which will take place in the Ukraine  Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.08.2019 19:25

After the go congress comes the next go congress.
One week ago the congress of 2019 ended for me and there are only 50 weeks to go before the next one starts.  Read more...

The 2nd Kedros Cup

By Pavol Lisy | Articles | 20.03.2019 21:42 | Comments: 1

The Grandslam Qualification, held on the end of previous week in Bratislava, was followed by the 2nd Kedros Cup week-end tournament on the 16th to 17th March. The tournament attracted quite a big number of participants - 70 in total, from 15 countries. The event therefore became the biggest one in Slovakia, not only by the number of participants, but also its prize pool of more than 1000 euros.   Read more...

Grand Slam Qualification

By Pavol Lisy | Articles | 20.03.2019 21:38

At the end of last week, many strong players from all across Europe came to Bratislava, Slovakia to attend two big competitions. The first one, the Grand Slam Qualification, was held on Thursday and Friday (the 14th to 15th March).  Read more...

The Future of Go in the West

By Daniel Jones | Articles | 17.03.2019 9:35 | Comments: 2

The ancient game of Go came to the West in the form of a description by Thomas Hyde in the latter parts of the 16th Century. Firstly, in the form of a letter and then a publication called, De Ludis Orientalibus. However, the game has taken a very long time to develop and spread around the Western world and indeed Europe.   Read more...

Organising EGC 2018

By Francesco Potortì | Articles | 26.11.2018 19:39

With 1200 showing up, the EGC 2018 in Pisa was the largest European Go Congress ever.   Read more...

Studying Baduk, Go, Weiqi in BIBA

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.07.2018 15:56

BIBA (Blackie's International Baduk Academy) where you can study both online and offline (at the school in Seoul)  Read more...

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk 2018 - Preliminary

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.07.2018 15:27 | Comments: 2

In Seoul the preliminaries of several groups was played in the building of the KBA.  Read more...

Zagreb Open – European Grand Prix Bonus C

By Damir Medak | Articles | 09.06.2018 18:48

This year, the Croatian Open Go Championship was a Level C Bonus tournament in the European Grand Prix. Altogether, 46 players from nine different countries played in the tournament. This was an increase of 50% compared to the previous edition in 2017. It was an excellent opportunity for the top Croatian players to play in a tournament with young members of EGF Academy. The largest and strongest tournament in Croatia since EGC 2002 started smoothly on Saturday, 26th May 2017, in the air-conditioned classrooms of the Alojzija Stepinca Elementary School. After the 1st round, we had a reception by the principal of the school, attended by a lot of school teachers and parents.   Read more...