The 17th European Go Congress

21.07.1973-04.08.1973, Sprendlingen, West Germany

As the Congress was in Germany there was a large number of German players, 101, compared with 19 from Netherlands, 13 Yugoslavia and 12 from Japan. All the winners were from Germany, apart from 1 from Japan. Germany was also the top country team.

Championship Group

                              M   K   M   R   V  Pt  
1 Jürgen Mattern       Ger   XX  11  11  11  11  8 
2 Michael Katscher     Ger   00  XX  10  11  11  5 
3 Zoran Mutabzija      Yug   00  01  XX  10  10  3 
4 Max Rebattu          Nld   00  00  01  XX  10  2 
5 Henk de Vries        Nld   00  00  01  01  XX  2 

5 players - all played the others twice

Other Events

The Masters sectiion was won by Kiehl (2d), Candidate-Masters by Wozzer and Kyu players by Krauth.

The Handicap event winners: Freimadl and Kitsos twice.

The Fast Play winners: Zschintzsch, Takahashi.

Ladies: 'Frau' Nassiokas.