The 8th European Professional Qualification was held in Vienna on 10–16 February. It brought together the 12 strongest European amateurs who battled in a round-robin for the title of the tenth professional player certified by the EGF. Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia 7d won nine games out of eleven and thus became the new European professional! Lukas Podpera […]

Two important European events will soon take place in Vienna at the same time and venue: the 8th Professional Qualification on 10–16 February and the 8th Professional Championship on 13–16 February. The Professional Qualification will bring together 12 strongest amateur players who battle in a round-robin for the title of the tenth professional player certified […]

Oh Chimin on the left is the winner, Hwang Inseong on the right is the sponsor, and Ellie in the middle is Inseong’s daughter and the eponym of the tournament One of the biggest annual European tournaments, the TIGGRE – Ellie Cup, was held on 25–26 January in Grenoble, France, bringing together 150 participants. The […]

The 8th European Grand Prix Finale took place on 3–6 January in Karlsruhe, Germany. This event brought together 16 players who demonstrated the best results in the 2024 European Grand Prix – a series of tournaments held during the last year. The winner was Valerii Krushelnytskyi 7d, who remained undefeated. The runner-up and Valerii’s opponent […]

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 […]

The Confucius Cup took place in Dublin on 21–22 September, attracting 36 participants from 12 countries including several top European players. After five rounds, three players had four points: Mateusz Surma 3p, Lukas Podpera 7d, and Cornel Burzo 7d. The first tie-breaker criterium was mutual game, so Mateusz claimed the Confucius Cup – he beat […]

The 4th China Town Go Cup was held in Warsaw on 12–13 October and brought together 156 participants including six professional players and numerous top European amateurs. This makes it one of the biggest weekend tournaments in Europe.   Lee Minjin 8p was the winner, remaining undefeated after all five rounds. Two players followed with […]

The European Women’s Championship took place on 14–15 September in Bratislava and brought together 24 participants. The winner was Li Ting 1p, who remained undefeated and thus repeated her last year’s success. Manja Marz 4d and Olesia Malko 3d both lost one game out of five, but according to the tiebreakers Manja was the runner-up […]