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Lukáš Podpěra 7d and Adriana Tomšů 2d, pair from Czechia

The 33rd World Amateur Pair Go Championship was held in Tokyo on 2–3 December. This event brought together 32 pairs from Asia, Europe, and America. China’s Wang Chen 8d and Chen Si 6d remained undefeated after five rounds and thus were crowned the champions.

Europe was represented by pairs from six countries: Czechia, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, Israel, and Spain. After five rounds, the most successful was the pair from Czechia: Lukáš Podpěra 7d and Adriana Tomšů 2d, who took 14th place. Manja Marz 4d and Johannes Obenaus 6d, the European Pair Go Champions from Germany, finished 15th.

For the complete results, see the web page of the 33rd World Amateur Pair Go Championship.

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This year’s Grand Slam tournament sponsored by the CEGO took place in the picturesque center of Prague on 19–22 October. The 16 strongest European players gathered to battle in a knockout for the most prestigious European title.

After four rounds, Mateusz Surma 3p remained undefeated and thus claimed the Grand Slam, repeating his success from 2019 in Berlin. He took home the largest prize in the European go scene: €10,000.

In the final Mateusz beat Fredrik Blomback 7d by 4.5 points. You can see the record of this game below. Fredrik has been demonstrating high performance recently: he took 3rd place in the Grand Slam last year, and 4th and 3rd places in the European Championship this year and last year, respectively.

In the match for the 3rd place, Pavol Lisy 2p beat Nikola Mitic 7d.

For more information, visit the web page of the CEGO Grand Slam 2023.

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Participants of the European Student Championship in Timisoara

This year’s European Student Championship was held on 15–16 September in Timisoara, Romania. The Student Championship is traditionally one of the smallest EGF events and this time it brought together five participants who played out a round robin.

Dobranis brothers Denis 5d and Darius 3d topped the tournament table in the end with one defeat only. They tied in all the tie-breakers but since Denis beat his brother in the last round – he was crowned the champion. Third came Boris Dovcik 2d who lost only to Denis and Darius; the fourth and fifth places went to Daniel Dobridoreanu 1d and  Daria-Maria Mesesan 3k. respectively.

The complete tournament table is available at the EGD.

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Last June, the Ibero American Go Federation decided in an extraordinary assembly to designate the Dominican Republic as the host country for the 5th Latin American Go Congress, to be held on 12–16 October in the Caribbean city of Punta Cana.

Within this event the following Championships will take place:

• 23rd Ibero American Go Championship
• 5th Latin American Youth Go Championship
• 6th Ibero American Pair Go Championship
• 3rd Latin American Female Go Championship
• Final match of the 7th Pandanet Latin American Go Team Championship between Brazil and Peru

In addition to these events, the congress will feature professional players who will do lectures, game reviews and play simultaneous games with the participants.

The venue of the Congress will be the Hotel Impressive Punta Cana, located on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. Some cheaper hotels close to the venue include Palmas de Punta Cana, Terraza Art Villa Dominicana, and Hotel Art Villa Dominicana.

The event is co-organised by the ‘Asociación Dominicana de Go’ and the Mexican Go Association.

For further information and to register, please visit the Congress website.

The 65th European Go Congress (EGC) took place in Leipzig on 22 July–5 August and brought together players from all over the world.

As usual, the EGC included such important events as the European Pandent Team Championship and individual European Championship. Andrii Kravets 1p claimed both Championships, winning the former as a member of the Ukrainian Team.

The biggest tournament at the EGC traditionally was the Open European Championship with almost 700 participants from more than 30 countries. The winner was Ryu Insu 7d from South Korea, followed by his compatriot Kim Daehwi 7d; third place went to Dominik Boviz 6d from Hungary.

The other competitions attracted numerous participants, too: more than 500 players in the Weekend Tournament (the winner was Park Junghun 7d) and almost 400 in the Rapid Tournament (winner: Kim Daehwi 7d).

For more details and articles, see the website of the 65th EGC. You can find quality pictures at Harry van der Krogt’s Flickr.

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