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Otake Hideo Retires

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on December 21, 2021 by Antti TörmänenDecember 21, 2021






Otake Hideo, popular among go players for his thick style of play, also called the ’Otake aesthetic,’ retired on December 15, 2021. Aged 79, he holds the Honorary Gosei title.

Mr Otake said that he made his decision to retire in November and informed his family. His reason: ’When I face the go board, the variations that I think up are more meager than what I aspire to.’ Next year, he will turn 80, but he seems to believe that it’s better to retire before reaching that landmark.

In 1951, at the age of nine, he became a disciple of the late Kitani Minoru 9-dan.

In 1975, he won the Meijin title from Ishida Shuho, 24th Honinbo, a junior fellow disciple of Kitani, and held it for a total of four terms. He also did well in other tournaments, winning among others the Gosei title for six years in a row and the Judan title five times. Together with his great rival Rin Kaiho, honourary Tengen, who was also born in May 1942, he built the ’Chikurin (=Otake/Rin) Age’.

When queried about his retiring before Rin, he responded: ’If he had not existed, I would not have become what I did.’

From 2008 to 2012, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nihon Ki-In. During that period, from 2009 to 2010, he also served as president of the International Go Federation, and from 2010 to 2011 as president of the All Japan Federation of Go, which was founded by three bodies: the Nihon Ki-In, the Kansai Ki-In, and the Japan Pair Go Association. During his term of office, the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, were held in November 2010, with go players competing for the first time.

Asked about retirement plans, he answered with a smile: ’I want to travel all over Japan, holding exchange with local people and spreading the enjoyment of go.’

Otake Hideo

  • Born in North Kyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, on May 12, 1942.
  • Became a disciple of the late Kitani Minoru 9-dan at the age of nine. Became professional 1-dan in 1961.
  • Won his first title in 1969, taking the Judan title from the late Sakata Eio.
  • Has won 48 titles, fifth in the all-time list, including the Meijin title four times, the Gosei title seven times, the Judan title five times, etc. His lifetime results are 1319 wins (fourth highest in Japan), 846 losses, five jigo, and one no-contest.
  • In 2004, he was awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon and in 2015 the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.





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Eighth European Championship for Ilya Shikshin 4p

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on December 8, 2021 by Antti TörmänenDecember 8, 2021


Ilya Shikshin 4p at the EGC 2019

This year’s European Championship was held online on the OGS and concluded on December 5. Ilya Shikshin 4p won this competition for the eighth time, reaching the record of Jürgen Mattern who succeeded an equal number of times in a timeframe of 1965–1979.

Ilya’s opponent in the final was Artem Kachanovskyi 2p. The semi-finals and the final were best-of-three, and Ilya defeated Artem with a score of 2-0 in the final. At the end of the article, you can see a record of the second and final game of the match.

The third place went to Ali Jabarin 2p who defeated Pavol Lisy 2p with a score of 2-1 in the match for the third place.

Last year Ilya also won the online European Championship. That time his opponent in the final was Ali Jabarin 2p; the score in the final was 2-1 in favor of Ilya.

For more information, visit the web page of European Championship 2021.

 

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European Go Championship: Progress Report

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on November 30, 2021 by Antti TörmänenNovember 30, 2021

The European Championship is one of the highlights in the European go calendar. Traditionally it is held in summer during the European Go Congress (EGC). However, as this year’s EGC was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Championship was organised online, same as last year.

This year’s edition of the tournament started on the 23rd of November with the group stage: four groups of four players were to decide the eight players who join the other eight players qualified for the final stage automatically. In the final stage, the sixteen strongest European players battle in a knockout for the champion’s title.

The games are commented live on the EGF Twitch channel by European professionals.

Four professionals certified by the EGF made it to the semi-finals: Ilya Shikshin 4p plays against Ali Jabarin 2p and Pavol Lisy 2p plays against Artem Kachanovskyi 2p. Starting from the semi-finals, each match is played as a best-of-three.

The final will take place on December 3–5.

You can find more information on the European Championship 2021 web page.

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European Grand Slam 2021: List of Participants Decided

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on November 22, 2021 by Antti TörmänenNovember 22, 2021

The Grand Slam is one of the most prestigious go competitions in Europe, with a first prize of €10,000. Last year it unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, many countries have loosened their travelling restrictions, perhaps due to successful vaccination campaigns. The Grand Slam 2021 is scheduled for 16–19 December and will take place in Belgrade, Serbia.

The tournament will bring together 16 strongest European go players who will battle in a single-elimination competition. All eight professionals certified by the EGF qualify automatically, while the other eight players had to pass a selection. Three of the participants were selected at the Grand Slam Qualification tournament, which took place in Vienna on 11–12 November: Nikola Mitic 7d, Oscar Vazquez 6d, and Matias Pankoke 5d. You can find photos from the event at the EGF’s photo album on Flickr.

Below is the complete list of participants of the coming Grand Slam:

  • Ilya Shikshin 4p
  • Artem Kachanovskyi 2p
  • Mateusz Surma 2p
  • Pavol Lisy 2p
  • Ali Jabarin 2p
  • Stanisław Frejlak 1p
  • Andrii Kravets 1p
  • Tanguy Le Calvé 1p
  • Alexander Dinerchtein 3p
  • Lukas Podpera 7d
  • Nikola Mitic 6d
  • Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 6d
  • Oscar Vazquez 6d
  • Viktor Lin 6d
  • Cornel Burzo 6d
  • Matias Pankoke 6d


For more details visit the web page of the Grand Slam 2021.

The previous Grand Slam was held in 2019 in Berlin. The winner was Mateusz Surma 2p.

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Stanislaw Frejlak Becomes Eighth European Professional

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on November 1, 2021 by Antti TörmänenNovember 1, 2021


Stanislaw Frejlak playing in the Pro Qualification

The European Professional Qualification Tournament took place in Leksand, Sweden from the 25th until the 31st of October. It was already the sixth edition of this competition. The previous five iterations generated seven European professionals:

  • 2014 – Pavol Lisy, Ali Jabarin
  • 2015 – Mateusz Surma, Ilya Shikshin
  • 2016 – Artem Kachanovskyi
  • 2017 – Andrii Kravets
  • 2019 – Tanguy Le Calve

The 6th Pro Qualification brought together 16 top European amateurs. It was played out in a single-elimination mode, with each pair of opponents playing a match of a best of three. The games were commented live by the European professionals on the EGF Twitch channel.

The finalists were Stanislaw Frejlak 7d from Poland and Lukas Podpera 7d from Czechia. After losing the first game, Stanislaw won the second one by half a point and the third one by resignation. Thus he won the final match and became the eighth European professional go player.

Game records, tournament charts, and more information you can find on the 6th Pro Qualification web page at the EGF website.

Below you can find a record of the third and final game between Stanislaw Frejlak and Lukas Podpera.

 

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European Youth Go Championship 2021 Concluded

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on October 19, 2021 by Antti TörmänenOctober 19, 2021

This year the European Youth Go Championship (EYGC) took place online from the 15th until the 17th of October. The tournament brought together more than 130 participants from 18 countries.

With anti-cheating measures applied, the online EYGC had the same format as the annual face-to-face event: six rounds of MacMahon competition played out over three days, starting from the 15th of October.

Traditionally, the EYGC consists of three separate tournaments in different age categories: U12, U16, and U20. Below are this year’s winners in each category:

  • U12: Vjacheslav Shpakovskij 1d (Russia)
  • U16: Alexandr Muromcev 5d (Russia)
  • U20: Oscar Vazquez 6d (Spain)


In the U12 category, Russia showed exceptionally good results by occupying the top seven places.

European professional go players commented on several games from each round on the EGF Twitch channel.

For more information, visit the web page of the EYGC 2021.

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Kovaleva and Surin Win European Pair Go Championship 2021

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on September 30, 2021 by Antti TörmänenSeptember 30, 2021


Dmitrij Surin 6d and Natalia Kovaleva 5d


This year the European Pair Go Championship (EPGC) took place on 25–26 September in Niš, Serbia. A total of 15 pairs from six countries took part in the competition.

After six rounds, two Russian pairs were on the top of the tournament table with only one defeat: Ajgul Fazulzjanova 3d with Alexander Dinerchtein 3p and Natalia Kovaleva 5d with Dmitrij Surin 6d. The pairs’ first tie-breaker, the sum of opponents’ scores (SOS), was equal, so the fate of the first place was decided by direct confrontation. The Kovaleva-Surin pair beat their fellow countrymates in the third round, so they claimed the champions’ title.

It was the seventh time for Natalia and Dmitrij to win this tournament together.

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Dina Burdakova Wins European Women’s Go Championship 2021

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on September 9, 2021 by Antti TörmänenSeptember 9, 2021


Dina Burdakova 5d

This year the European Women’s Go Championship (EWGC) took place online on 4–5 September. The tournament brought together 30 participants from eleven European countries.

After six rounds of intense struggle, two players remained with only one defeat: Dina Burdakova 5d and Virzhinia Shalneva 3d, both of them representatives of Russia. Dina was ahead on the first tie-breaker – the sum of opponents’ scores (SOS), so she claimed the champion’s title. Last year’s winner, Natalia Kovaleva 5d, finished third, losing only to her fellow countrywomen – the winner and the runner-up.

For Dina Burdakova it was the second victory in the EWGC. Her first triumph was in 2014 in Kazan, Russia.

For complete results see the tournament table in the EGD.

Below you can find the record of the game played in the fourth round between Dina Burdakova 5d and Natalia Kovaleva 5d.

 

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France Wins Pandanet Go European Team Championship

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on August 30, 2021 by Antti TörmänenAugust 30, 2021

The Pandanet Go European Team Championship (PGETC) has been held annually since 2010. Each EGF member country lines up one team. The teams are split into leagues each consisting of around ten players. A round-robin tournament is played out in each league online, starting in October with a frequency of about one match per month. The most successful team in each league traverses one league up, while the team that finishes last goes one league down.

Four teams finishing first in the A-League are qualified for the final, traditionally held as a face-to-face event at the European Go Congress in summer. This year the Congress set to take place in Ukraine was cancelled, and the final was organised online, same as last year.

After an intense battle of three rounds, the team of France remained undefeated and became the European champion for the third year straight. The runner-up was the team of Russia, while Ukraine and Poland came in third and fourth, respectively.

For more information such as detailed results and game records, visit the PGETC final web page.

Below you can find the record of the game between Dai Junfu 8d (France) and Ilya Shikshin 4p (Russia), played in the first round of the final.

 

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Ryan Li 3p Wins 1st Transatlantic Professional Go League

Website of The International Go Federation Posted on August 16, 2021 by Antti TörmänenAugust 16, 2021


Ryan Li 3p

The first Transatlantic Professional Go League (TPGL) started on the 15th of May 2021, this time with two American pros and two amateurs joining the six European professionals.

All the players were split into two groups of one American pro, one amateur, and three European pros. A round-robin was played out in order to decide two players in each group to qualify for the playoffs.

Ilya Shikshin 4p and Artem Kachanovskyi 3p passed the selection in the first group, while Ryan Li 3p and Tanguy Le Calve 1p were first and second, respectively, in the second group.

According to the results of the playoffs, here are the final standings for the first four places:

  1. Winner: Ryan Li 3p
  2. Runner-up: Ilya Shikshin 4p
  3. 3rd place: Artem Kachanovskyi 3p
  4. 4th place: Tanguy Le Calve 1p


The final was played on the 15th of August between Ilya Shikshin 4p and Ryan Li 3p. Ryan won with a score of 2-0.

It’s noteworthy that Ryan already joined the European Professional Go League earlier, in the second season, and was victorious that time as well: he beat Ilya in the final with a score of 3-1.

For more information such as the tournament tables and the records of the games, visit the 1st TPGL web page.

Below you can find the record of the second game of the final between Ryan Li 3p and Ilya Shikshin 4p.

 

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