Two important European events will be held in Hamburg soon: the European Youth Championship and the European Professional Championship.

The Youth Championship is scheduled for 21–23 March and will be split into three age categories: U12, U18, and U21. The organisers also invite all the participants to a Youth Camp preceding the main event for three days, 18–20 March, where professionals and top European amateurs will teach. You can find more details here.

The 7th Professional Championship is planned for 20–23 March. Six European professionals will play a round-robin during the first three days. If any participants have equal scores after the round-robin, additional games will be played on the last tournament day as tie-breakers.

List of participants:

• Mateusz Surma 3p
• Artem Kachanovskyi 2p
• Ali Jabarin 2p
• Stanisław Frejlak 1p
• Andrii Kravets 1p
• Tanguy Le Calve 1p

The games will be broadcast on the OGS and commented live on the EGF Twitch channel by the top European players.

Besides the generous prize money, the three players topping the tournament table will qualify for the European team in the Chinese C League, which is supposed to be held this summer. For more information, visit the web page of the 7th European Professional Championship.

Report by Artem