The 19th European Go Congress

27.07.1975-10.08.1975, Krems, West Germany

Around 130 players participated in the 19th European Go Congress in Krems, not far from Vienna, along the Danube. For the first time there were participants from Poland, Greece and Italy.

12 players were in the Championship Group and the first round started directly with a cracker between the undoubtely strongest players of that time, Mattern and Wimmer. Jürgen Mattern won this and he became for the seventh time European Champion with eight wins out of eight games. With this win he earned a ticket to Japan.

Championship Group

                               M W M W R V K N S K B G Pt
 1  Jürgen Mattern    Ger  5d  X 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 -  8
 2  Manfred Wimmer    Aus  5d  0 X 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - - -  7
 3  Patrick Merissert Fra  4d  0 0 X 1 1 - 0 - 1 - 1 1  5
 4  Helmut Wiltschek  Aus  4d  - 0 0 X 0 1 1 - 1 1 - 1  5
 5  Robert Rehm       Nld  4d  0 0 0 1 X - 0 - 1 - 1 1  4
 6  Henk de Vries     Nld  4d  0 0 - 0 - X - 1 1 0 1 1  4
 7  Michael Katscher  Ger  5d  0 0 1 0 1 - X 0 1 1 - -  4
 8  Ernst Novak       Aus  4d  0 0 0 - - 0 1 X 0 1 1 -  3
 9  Horst Sudhoff     Ger  4d  - 0 - 0 0 0 0 - X 0 1 1  2
10  Michael Kitsos    Gre  4d  0 - - 0 - 1 0 0 1 X 0 0  2
11  Jim Bates         Gbr  3d  0 - 0 - 0 0 - 1 0 1 X 0  2
12  Leonhard Grebe    Ger  4d  - - 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 1 1 X  2

Master Tournament

The Master Tournament was played in four groups. The winners of the four groups had to play a knock-out final to decide the winner.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1 Faye Fra, 1d 5-1	1 Zemb Fra, 1d 5-0	1 Helmut Hasibeder Aut, 1d 4-0	1 Gerfried Beck Aut, 1d 3-1
2 Wolfgang Isele Ger, 3d 5-1	2 Berndt Wolter Ger, 3d 4-1	2 Matthew Macfadyen Gbr, 2d 3-1	2 Ger Hungerink Nld, 2d 3-1
3 Horst Kippe Ger, 2d 4-2	3 Stuart Dowsey Gbr, 3d 3-2	3 Black Ger, 2d 2-2	3 Barisic Yug, 2d 3-1
4 Cas Muller Nld, 2d 3-3	4 Rob van Vulpen Nld, 2d 2-3	4 Thomas Jipp Ger, 3d 1-3	4 Gruber Ger, 2d 1-3
5 Francis Roads Gbr, 1d 2-4	5 Schmidt Aut, 1d 1-4	5 Unger Aut, 1d 0-4	5 Bob Hitchins Gbr, 1d 0-4
6 Breitenbach Aut, 1d 1-5	6 Kopitz Aut, 1d 0-5	Atsuya Jpn, 4d *	6 Matsugi Jpn, 4d *
7 Urbanek Aut, 2d 1-5	Takahashi Jpn, 4d *	Bruce Wilcox USA, 2d *

* = not in competition

In the play-off for group D, Hungerink beat Barisic, and Beck beat Hungerink.

Semi-finals: Hasibeder beat Faye; Zemb beat Beck

Final: Zemb beat Hasibeder

Other Events

The Challengers Tournament, which also was played in four groups, was won by Kuhar (Yug, 1k). He beat Ralph Hempfling (Ger, 1k) in the final.

Bruce Wilcox, a pioneer in computer Go, gave a lecture in programming computer Go. He was claiming that his program, which would be ready in two and half years, could solve 1 dan problems.

The Nihon Ki-in sent a group of twenty amateur players, headed by Kobayashi Chizu (4p), to the Congress. They played a match Europe-Asia, which was won by Europe (13-7).

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