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The second season of the Transatlantic Professional Go League (TPGL) concluded on July 17th with a best-of-five final match between American professionals Ryan Li 3p and Kevin Yang 1p. Ryan won three games straight, thus winning the match and the whole season.

European professionals Ilya Shikshin 4p and Artem Kachanovskyi 2p finished third and fourth, respectively.

It’s worth noting that Ryan Li won the first season of the TPGL as well; that time he defeated Ilya Shikshin 4p in the final.

For more details, such as the tournament table and game records, visit the web page of the event.

Below you can find a record of the third game of the final match between Ryan and Kevin.

 

 

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After two online editions in 2020 and 2021, the European Championship will take place face-to-face at the 64th European Go Congress (EGC) in Vatra Dornei, Romania on 24–31 July.

The competition features a double-elimination mode with 32 participants until eight players remain to fight in a knockout. You can see an example in the tournament chart of the 2019 European Championship.

Players selected for the 2022 European Championship:

• Artem Kachanovskyi 2p
• Ali Jabarin 2p
• Lukas Podpera 7d
• Stanislaw Freijak 1p
• Andrii Kravets 1p
• Tanguy Le Calvé 1p
• Cristian Pop 7d
• Nikola Mitic 6d
• Oscar Vasquez 6d
• Drean-Guenaizia Benjamin 6d
• Fredrik Blomback 6d
• Rémi Campagnie 6d
• Dominik Boviz 6d
• Ondrej Kruml 6d
• Jan Prokop 6d
• Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d
• Cornel Burzo 6d
• Bohdan Zhurakovskyi 6d
• Jan Simara 6d
• Matias Pankoke 6d
• Dmytro Bohatskyi 6d
• Elian Ioan Grogoriu 6d
• Javier-Aleksi Savolainen 5d
• Amir Fragman 6d
• Florent Labouret 5d
• Vladimir Danek 5d
• Koichiro Habu 5d
• Alessandro Pace 5d
• Antoine Fenech 5d
• Martin Ruzicka 5d
• Denis Dobranis 4d
• Vsevolod Ovsiienko 4d

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The Pandanet Go European Team Championship (PGETC) is a competition that is divided into two stages: an online league lasting from October to May and a face-to-face final taking place at the European Go Congress (EGC). In 2020 and 2021 the EGC was cancelled, so the PGETC final took place online.

The teams participating in the online league are divided into four groups, from A to D, each consisting of eight to ten teams. Each group plays a round-robin, according to whose results the teams traverse up and down the leagues in the next season, and the four top teams from the A league are qualified for the final.

After the last round of league A took place on the 17th of May, the four teams qualified for the final are now decided: France, Ukraine, Czechia, and Poland. This year’s EGC will take place in Romania traditionally during the last week of July and the first week of August.

For more details, such as the tournament table and game records, visit the web page of the PGETC.

Below you can find a record of the game played in the last round of the PGETC online league A between Ali Jabarin 2p (Israel) and Mateusz Surma 2p (Poland).

 

 

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The 49th Paris International Tournament took place on April 16-18 and brought together 142 participants from all over Europe. The competition is included in the European Grand Prix 2022 as a Bonus Point Level B event.

After six rounds of intense struggle, Dai Junfu 8d remained undefeated and was thus crowned the winner. He was followed by Cornel Burzo 6d and Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d. Complete results can be found on the website of the tournament.

Below you can find a record of the game played between Dai Junfu 8d and Valerii Krushelnytskyi 6d in the last round of the Paris International Tournament.

 

 

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The European Youth Go Championship took place in Prague on 10–12 March and brought together 114 participants from 15 countries. During the four days prior to the Championship, a training camp was held by Andrii Kravets 1p, Lukáš Podpěra 7d, and Jan Šimara 6d.

The Championship consisted of six rounds and on 12 March the winners were decided. Six young players topping the tournament table in U12 and U16 age categories are qualified for participation in the World Youth Go Championship, which will be held online this year. The winner of the U20 category will represent Europe in the Globis Cup. Below you can find the top three prize-winners of each age category.

Under 12:

1. Bende Barcza 5k
2. Alper Sulak 1d
3. Alexandru-Nicolas Patrascu 9k

Under 16:

1. Vsevolod Ovsiienko 4d
2. Yuze Xing 2d
3. Anna Melnyk 1d

Under 20:

1. Arved Pittner 5d
2. Davide Bernardis 4d
3. Denis Dobranis 4d

The complete results you can find here.

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