The 57th European Go Congress

27.07.2013-10.08.2013, Olsztyn, Poland

The 57th European Go Congress was hosted by the Polish Go Association
in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn.

European Open/Championship Results


After seven rounds top 8 European players were selected for knockout stage
(Alexandr Dinerchtein and Andrii Karvetz lost relegation games to Artem Kachanovskyi and Dusan Mitic).

Quarter Finals


  • Fan Hui beat Dusan Mitic
  • Mateusz Surma beat Antti Tormanen
  • Thomas Debarre beat Artem Kachanovskyi
  • Pavol Lisy beat Ilja Shikshin

Semi-Finals


  • Pavol Lisy beat Thomas Debarre
  • Fan Hui beat Mateusz Surma

Final


Fan Hui beat Pavol Lisy to become European Champion for the first time.

European Championship Places


  1. Fan Hui, 7d France
  2. Pavol Lisy, 6d Slovakia
  3. Mateusz Surma, 6d Poland
  4. Thomas Debarre, 6d France
  5. Antti Tormanen, 6d Finland
  6. Ilja Shikshin, 7d Russia
  7. Artem Kachanovskyi, 6d Ukraine
  8. Dusan Mitic, 6d Serbia

European Open Places


Fan Hui, 7d France, was unbeaten after 10 rounds to also be European Open Champion.

  1. Fan Hui, 7d France, 10 wins
  2. Antti Tormanen, 6d Finland, 8 wins
  3. Pavol Lisy, 6d Slovakia, 7 wins
  4. Mateusz Surma, 6d Poland, 7 wins
  5. Ali Jabarin, 6d Israel, 7 wins
  6. Ondrej Silt, 6d Czechia, 8 wins

594 players took part.

Weekend Tournament Results


  1. Ilja Shikshin, 7d Russia, 5 wins
  2. Fan Hui, 7d France, 4 wins
  3. Ali Jabarin, 6d Israel, 4 wins
  4. Cornel Burzo, 6d Romania, 3 wins
  5. Alexandr Dinerchtein, 7d Russia, 3 wins

378 players took part.

Rapid Tournament Results


  • 1= Cornel Burzo, 6d Romania, 7 wins
  • 1= Mateusz Surma, 6d Poland, 7 wins
  • 3. Andrii Karvetz, 6d Ukraine, 6 wins

276 players took part.

Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals


  1. Czechia
  2. Russia

Pair Go Tournament


Open winners: Hajin Lee (pro) and Cezary Czernecki (3d)

2. Agnieszka Kacprzyk (1d) and Young-Long Park (pro)

3. Ting Li (pro) and Bin Lu (3d)

4. Astrid Gaultier (1d) and Benjamin Drean (5d)

Handicap winners: Dita Vasova / Lukas Podpera

9x9 Tournament


  1. Ilja Shikshin
  2. Radim Janos

13x13 Tournament


  1. Andrii Kravets
  2. Marina Popova
  3. Niels Schomberg

Lightning Tournament


  1. Ilja Shikshin
  2. Ondrej Silt

U18 Tournament


  1. Vashurov Alexandr

Rengo Tournament


  1. Habu, Mos, Rzepnikowski
  2. Lin, Tarumi, Stauder

Team Tournament


  1. Wampiry: Mateusz Surma, Stanislaw Frejlak, Marcin Majka (PL)
  2. Bogoss: Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia, Pierre Paga, Cesar Lextrait (FR)

Phantom Tournament


  1. Stanislaw Frejlak
  2. Gabor Aibrecht

Photo Album


Contains nearly 400 small images

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