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 […]