The 59th WeiqiTV European Go Congress

25.07.2015-08.08.2015, Liberec, Czechia

The 59th WeiqiTV European Go Congress was hosted by the Czech Go Association in the Babylon Centre in Liberec, Czechia.

European Championship Results

24 top European players took part. After four rounds, 8 were selected for the knockout stage.

Quarter Finals

  • Thomas Debarre beat Pavol Lisy
  • Fan Hui beat Mateusz Surma
  • Ilja Shikshin beat Alexandr Dinerchtein
  • Ali Jabarin beat Artem Kachanovskyi

Semi-Finals

  • Ali Jabarin beat Ilja Shikshin
  • Fan Hui beat Thomas Debarre

Final

Fan Hui beat Ali Jabarin by resignation to retain the European Champion title.

Game for Third

Ilja Shikshin beat Thomas Debarre.

European Championship Places

  1. Fan Hui, 2p France
  2. Ali Jabarin, 1p Israel
  3. Ilja Shikshin, 1p Russia
  4. Thomas Debarre, 6d France

European Open Results

Wang Zheming, 8d China, was unbeaten after 10 rounds to be European Open Champion.

  1. Wang Zheming, 8d China, 10 wins
  2. Kim Young-Sam, 7d Korea, 9 wins
  3. Pavol Lisy, 1p Slovakia, 7 wins
  4. Ali Jabarin, 1p Israel, 7 wins

762 players took part.

Weekend Tournament Results

  1. Kim Young-Sam, 7d Korea, 5 wins
  2. Alexandr Dinerchtein, 3p Russia, 4 wins
  3. Yi-Tien Chan, 7d Taiwan, 4 wins
  4. = Pavol Lisy, 1p Slovakia, 4 wins
  5. = Ma Bin, 7d China, 4 wins

502 players took part.

Rapid Tournament Results

Chan and Wang were equal on wins and SOS.

  1. Chan Yi-Tien, 7d Taiwan, 8 wins
  2. Wang Zheming, 8d China, 8 wins
  3. Mateusz Surma, 7d Poland, 7 wins

299 players took part.

Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals

  1. France
  2. Ukraine

Pair Go Tournament

Open Winners:
1. Gong Xiaoyu and Qiu Wei
2. Manja Marz and Kim Young-Sam
3= Sun Sai and Dusan Mitic
3= Li Yue and Yao Cheng

Handicap Winners:
1. Tarasenko/Rusanovskyi
2. Arffman/Siukola
3. Marconi/Bertok

9x9 Tournament

  1. Chan Yi-Tien, 7d
  2. Stanislaw Frejlak, 4d
  3. Mateusz Surma, 8d

13x13 Tournament

  1. Sun Sai, 3d
  2. Chan Yi-Tien, 7d
  3. Stanislaw Frejlak, 4d
  4. Dmytro Bogatsjyy, 6d

Lightning Tournament

  1. Kim Young-Sam, 7d
  2. Chan Yi-Tien, 7d
  3. Lukas Podpera, 6d

Children's Tournament

Games were played with handicap, Savva and Li both won 5/6.

  1. Savva Mezin, 5k Russia
  2. Li Chenlai, 3d China
  3. Yang Louyi, 3d China

Women's Tournament

  1. Sun Sai, 5d China
  2. Manja Marz, 3d Germany
  3. Fang Cao, 5d China

Veterans Tournament

  1. Mizuuchi Chihiro
  2. Zhang Wentian
  3. Viktor Bogdanov

Beer Tournament

  1. Kerem Karaerkek

Team Tournament

  1. Ze?t Riddle: Mateusz Surma, Stanislaw Frejlak, Ioan Alexandru Arsinoaia, Filip Domanski
  2. Les Bobos: Goncalves Simao, Sampedro Juan, Piet Hessing, Lara Skuppin
  3. Evry Nations: Jean-Sebastian Lechasseur, Alessandro Pace, Solal Zemor, Tristan Defer
  4. Sausage Party: Jan Prokop, Ondrej Kruml, Ondrej Kachyna, Julia Seres

Rengo Tournament

  1. Surma-Frejlak-Domanski
  2. Zakharzhevskyy-Martinelli-De_Francesco
  3. Chih-Hao-Luo

Computer Go Tournament

  1. AyaMC - 3 wins
  2. ManyFaces1 - 2 wins
  3. pachi - 1 win
  4. jimmy - 0 wins

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