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Pandanet Go European Team Championship: Finalists Decided

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on May 20, 2022 by Antti TörmänenMay 20, 2022

The Pandanet Go European Team Championship (PGETC) is a competition that is divided into two stages: an online league lasting from October to May and a face-to-face final taking place at the European Go Congress (EGC). In 2020 and 2021 the EGC was cancelled, so the PGETC final took place online.

The teams participating in the online league are divided into four groups, from A to D, each consisting of eight to ten teams. Each group plays a round-robin, according to whose results the teams traverse up and down the leagues in the next season, and the four top teams from the A league are qualified for the final.

After the last round of league A took place on the 17th of May, the four teams qualified for the final are now decided: France, Ukraine, Czechia, and Poland. This year’s EGC will take place in Romania traditionally during the last week of July and the first week of August.

For more details, such as the tournament table and game records, visit the web page of the PGETC.

Below you can find a record of the game played in the last round of the PGETC online league A between Ali Jabarin 2p (Israel) and Mateusz Surma 2p (Poland).

 

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50th Prague Tournament Brings Together 168 Participants

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on April 27, 2022 by Antti TörmänenApril 27, 2022


Top three: Lukas Podpera, Stanislaw Frejlak, and Kim Dohyup

The Prague Tournament, also known as the Korean Ambassador Cup, is one of the oldest annual European competitions. Its 50th edition took place on 23–24 April and brought together 168 players from 20 countries, including three European professionals.

After five rounds, Kim Dohyup 7d remained undefeated and thus won the tournament. He was followed by Stanislaw Frejlak 1p and Lukas Podpera 7d, each of whom only lost to the champion, sharing the second and third places.

For more information about the Prague Tournament, visit its website.

Below you can find a record of the game played in the third round between Kim Dohyup 7d and Lukas Podpera 7d.

 

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Dai Junfu Wins 49th Paris International Tournament

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on April 21, 2022 by Antti TörmänenApril 21, 2022


The 49th Paris International Tournament took place on April 16-18 and brought together 142 participants from all over Europe. The competition is included in the European Grand Prix 2022 as a Bonus Point Level B event.

After six rounds of intense struggle, Dai Junfu 8d remained undefeated and was thus crowned the winner. He was followed by Cornel Burzo 6d and Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d. Complete results can be found on the website of the tournament.

Below you can find a record of the game played between Dai Junfu 8d and Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d in the last round of the Paris International Tournament.

 

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2nd Transatlantic Professional Go League Starts Soon

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on March 30, 2022 by Antti TörmänenMarch 30, 2022

The first Transatlantic Professional Go League (TPGL) took place online in May–August 2021. It caught the attention of numerous go fans around the globe. The winner was Ryan Li 3p, who defeated Ilya Shikshin 4p in the final with a score of 2-0.

The second TPGL will start on April 2. This time two American amateurs Kevin Yang 7d and Brady Zhang 7d were invited to join the eight professionals – seven EGF-certified pros and Ryan Li 3p. All the participants are divided into two groups of five players, and the three highest-scored players of each group proceed to the playoffs. For more details, see the web page of the event.

The matches start at 18:00 CEST each weekend and the games are commented live by professional players on the European Go Federation’s Twitch channel.

The first match of the second TPGL will be played on April 2 between Ilya Shikshin 4p and Kevin Yang 7d.

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European Youth Go Championship 2022 Concluded

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on March 18, 2022 by Antti TörmänenMarch 18, 2022

The European Youth Go Championship took place in Prague on 10–12 March and brought together 114 participants from 15 countries. During the four days prior to the Championship, a training camp was held by Andrii Kravets 1p, Lukáš Podpěra 7d, and Jan Šimara 6d.

The Championship consisted of six rounds and on 12 March the winners were decided. Six young players topping the tournament table in U12 and U16 age categories are qualified for participation in the World Youth Go Championship, which will be held online this year. The winner of the U20 category will represent Europe in the Globis Cup. Below you can find the top three prize-winners of each age category.

Under 12:

  1. Bende Barcza 5k
  2. Alper Sulak 1d
  3. Alexandru-Nicolas Patrascu 9k



Under 16:

  1. Vsevolod Ovsiienko 4d
  2. Yuze Xing 2d
  3. Anna Melnyk 1d



Under 20:

  1. Arved Pittner 5d
  2. Davide Bernardis 4d
  3. Denis Dobranis 4d



The complete results you can find here.

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IGF Statement: Heeding the IOC Resolution on the Ukraine Crisis

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on March 11, 2022 by Antti TörmänenMarch 11, 2022

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has passed a resolution urging all International Federations to relocate or cancel their events currently planned in Russia or Belarus.

The IGF has no plans to stage any events in either country and urges all regional associations/federations and all IGF association members to relocate or cancel any events currently planned in Russia or Belarus.

In addition, until further notice, no Russian or Belarussian flags will be displayed at events under IGF’s auspices. The Russian or Belarussian players participating in IGF events will be identified with the IGF flag. Regional associations/federations and IGF association members are urged to adopt a similar policy.

This statement is being sent to all IGF members and association members confirming IGF’s strong condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia with support of Belarus and expressing IGF’s unwavering solidarity with our Ukrainian friends.

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European Team Wins 2nd Fudan–Europe Online Go Festival

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on February 22, 2022 by Antti TörmänenFebruary 22, 2022


The first online tournament between the Fudan University Team (Shanghai, China) and the European Students’ Team was held in August–September 2020. The competition was played in a win-and-continue format, and Fudan University won with a score of 11:10.

The second event of this kind began in September last year and concluded this month. It started from a youth match played between promising players under 12 from Europe and children studying at the Blue Elephant School in Shanghai. Each team consisted of six players. After three rounds played out with switching opponents, Europe won with a score of 16:2.

The second part of the Festival was a win-and-continue tournament between the main teams consisting of eleven players each. This time it was Europe who won with a score of 11:10. For details, see the report by Stanisław Frejlak, the European team leader.

Below you can see the deciding game of the win-and-continue tournament, played on the 12th of February between Artem Kachanovskyi 2p and Shi Rui 5d.

 

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Ilya Shikshin 4p Wins 5th European Grand Prix Finale

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on January 28, 2022 by Antti TörmänenJanuary 28, 2022



The European Grand Prix is an annual series of go competitions. Participants collect so-called bonus points for finishing on the top of each event. Since 2017, at the beginning of each year, the Grand Prix Finale is organised as a conclusion to the Grand Prix from the year that has passed: it brings together winners of the tournaments and players with the greatest number of bonus points in order to determine the winner of the Grand Prix.

The 5th Grand Prix Finale took place online on OGS on 22–27 January. The event brought together 16 strongest European players from 11 countries. Traditionally, all the participants were divided into four groups of four players. Each group played out a round robin in order to determine two players qualifying to the knockout stage.

In the final, Ilya Shikshin 4p beat Pavol Lisy 2p by resignation after 240 moves. It was Ilya’s third time to win the Grand Prix Finale, following his successes in 2018 and 2020.

For more details such as the tournament table and game records, visit the web page of the European Grand Prix Finale 2021.

Below you can find a record of the final game between Ilya and Pavol.

 

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Overview of European Go in 2021

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on January 11, 2022 by Antti TörmänenJanuary 11, 2022

Overview of European Go in 2021

After the COVID-19 pandemic started, most European tournaments moved online. Major competitions organised by the EGF, such as the European Championship and the Grand Prix Finale, had to adapt to the online form as well. In the recently concluded 2021, however, international travel restrictions were smoothly loosened, and starting from summer we observed a significant rise of face-to-face go events.

At the beginning of June, the 41st World Amateur Go Championship took place in Russia. For the first time in the history of this event, one of the EGF member countries hosted it. The tournament was organised in a mixed form, with a part of participants playing in Vladivostok, while those who could not attend the event in person were allowed to join online.

The final of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship took place online in August; the team of France won it for the third year straight.

Dina Burdakova 5d won the online European Women’s Championship in September.

Natalia Kovaleva 5d and Dmitrij Surin 6d won their seventh European Pair Go Championship, which took place in Niš, Serbia, in September as well.

The European Youth Go Championship was played out online in October, bringing together 131 participants.



Lukáš Podpěra (left) playing against Stanisław Frejlak in the final of the 6th Pro Qualification

October also saw the EGF certifying a new professional player, Stanisław Frejlak, who won the 6th European Professional Qualification Tournament in Leksand, Sweden.

The European Championship took place online in November and December. Ilya Shikshin won this tournament for the eighth time, matching the record of Jürgen Mattern who claimed his eight championships between 1965 and 1979. Ilya has also won the online Grand Prix Finale at the beginning of the last year.

The cherry on the cake was the Grand Slam tournament in Belgrade: after a break of almost two years for most of the top European players, they have finally met over the board again. The winner was Artem Kachanovskyi 2p.

Besides the listed major go competitions, a lot of smaller go events took place in Europe last year: various summer go camps, Moyo Open in Pardubice, Dutch Open in The Hague, Grand Slam Qualification, Helmut Wiltschek Memorial in Vienna, etc.

To sum up, this was a bright and successful year for go in Europe, giving go players hope of seeing each other more often in real life. To learn more about the tournaments mentioned here, visit the EGF website.

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Artem Kachanovskyi 2p Wins 6th European Grand Slam Tournament

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on December 30, 2021 by Antti TörmänenJanuary 11, 2022

The Grand Slam is one of the brightest highlights in the European go calendar, with a €10,000 prize for the winner. The five past editions were organised in Berlin from 2015 until 2019. In 2020, unfortunately, the competition was cancelled due to travelling restrictions caused by the global pandemic.

This year’s edition of the Grand Slam, titled ‘Lanke Cup’ after the name of its sponsor, took place in Belgrade, Serbia on December 16–19. The tournament brought together the 16 strongest European players. Eight professionals certified by the EGF qualified automatically, while the other players had to pass a selection.



Artem Kachanovskyi 2p

Artem Kachanovskyi 2p remained undefeated after four rounds of the knockout, thus claiming the champion’s title. At the end of this article, you can find a record of the final game, played between Artem and Tanguy Le Calvé 1p.
For more information, visit the web page of the 6th Grand Slam tournament.


 

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