The European Go scene as ever featured bright events in 2024. Let’s recall the most important of them. Hamburg hosted two important competitions on 20–23 March: the Professional Championship (winner: Mateusz Surma 3p) and the Youth Championship. The latter brought together almost 100 participants and the winners were Benoit Robichon 3d (U21 age category), Yuze […]

Dr Demis Hassabis is a co-winner of this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry.Hassabis, 48, CEO and co-founder of Google DeepMind, developed the AI model AlphaFold to predict protein structures. Hassabis visited the Nihon Ki-In, the Japanese headquarters of the game of Go, in Tokyo in late November 2024. Hassabis, a chess master, learned Go when […]

A new season of the Pandanet European Team Championship (PGETC) started last month and round two of the online league was played on 12 November. The team of Poland is the leader so far: they won the first two rounds against Hungary and Sweden. Turkey is a newcomer in League A and so far lost […]