This event was be held over 6 rounds to determine the 5 player team to represent the European Union team in the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, China, from 8th to 17th December 2011. At least one of the team had to be female to make up the Pair Go team with one male team member. 24 strong European players were invited to take part in the qualifier based on ratings.
The team selected was:
Vanessa Wong will partner Catalin Taranu in the Pair Go ("Mixed Doubles").
Pl Name Gr 1 2 3 4 5 6 W SOS SOSOS 1 Burzo, Cornel 6d 16+ 4- 9+ 6+ 7+ 8+ 5 21 122 2 Pop, Cristian 7d 17+ 11+ 4- 12+ 5+ 3+ 5 21 117 3 Taranu, Catalin 7d 15+ 20+ 8+ 5+ 4+ 2- 5 20 122 4 Shikshin, Ilja 7d 21+ 1+ 2+ 10+ 3- 6- 4 23 116 5 Dinerstein, Alexander 7d 19+ 7+ 10+ 3- 2- 12+ 4 22 112 6 Kachanovskyi, Artem 7d 7- 17+ 11+ 1- 9+ 4+ 4 21 119 7 Simara, Jan 5d 6+ 5- 13+ 18+ 1- 10+ 4 21 114 8 Silt, Ondrej 6d 9+ 12+ 3- 16+ 13+ 1- 4 21 109 9 Blomback, Fredrik 6d 8- 18+ 1- 11+ 6- 21+ 3 19 111 10 Balogh, Pal 6d 14+ 19+ 5- 4- 16+ 7- 3 19 108 11 Bohatskyi, Dmytro 6d 18+ 2- 6- 9- 19+ 15+ 3 18 109 12 Groenen, Geert 5d 22+ 8- 20+ 2- 15+ 5- 3 17 113 13 Wong, Vanessa 5d 20- 15+ 7- 17+ 8- 18+ 3 15 110 14 Mitic, Nikola 5d 10- 22- 15- 20+ 17+ 16+ 3 11 102 15 Macfadyen, Matthew 6d 3- 13- 14+ 22+ 12- 11- 2 18 95 16 Lisy, Pavol 5d 1- 21+ 22+ 8- 10- 14- 2 17 100 17 Danek, Vladimir 5d 2- 6- 21+ 13- 14- 22+ 2 17 96 18 Shikshina, Svetlana 7d 11- 9- 19+ 7- 22+ 13- 2 16 101 19 Jabarin, Ali 6d 5- 10- 18- 21+ 11- 20+ 2 14 106 20 Kuin, Merlijn 6d 13+ 3- 12- 14- 21- 19- 1 17 91 21 Mitic, Dusan 6d 4- 16- 17- 19- 20+ 9- 1 14 107 22 Van Eeden, Gilles 6d 12- 14+ 16- 15- 18- 17- 1 14 96