Visiting the future EGF professionals in Beijing

By Marc Oliver Rieger | Interviews | 03.11.2018 14:04

If you're on a business trip in Beijing and have some free time, what's on the sightseeing program? Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace and No. 18 Beijing Middle School. The latter may not be the classic address for Chinese tourists, but this is exactly where six selected people from Europe stay every year as part of the CEGO programme to (maybe?) become professionals at some point in the future. This year's participants: Stanislaw Freijlak from Poland, Oscar Vazquez from Spain, Anton Chernykh from Russia, Sinan Djepov from Bulgaria, Dominik Boviz from Hungary and Gabriel Wagner from Germany. As a correspondent for the EGF, Gabriel also regularly writes articles here about living and learning in China, but maybe a neutral investigative journalist like me will uncover secrets about their stay?  Read more...

Report on CEGO academic program (3) - Huai An - a go city or a ghost city?

By Gabriel Wagner | International | 27.10.2018 11:04 | Comments: 2

From September 14th to September 18th, we went to a Chinese amateur tournament in Huai An, which is located about 250 km to the north-west of Beijing. This city only has a small population and the streets were almost empty most of the time; however, a lot of buildings were still under construction, so it seems the city is just being built right now. This gave the whole location a very special atmosphere which could hardly be found in any European city.
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TIGGRE – Ellie Cup, a level B bonus tournament in Grenoble

By Dominique Cornuejols | News | 27.10.2018 8:20

The TIGGRE – Ellie Cup, which took place in Grenoble on 13-14 October, is the beautiful product of two dreams :
The TIGGRE (acronym of Tournoi International de Go de GREnoble), open to all players, of all strengths and ages, in a nice and cheerful atmosphere, initiated by the Grenoble Go Club team, and modelled on the Ze Tournoi, organised every year around the 1st of May in a castle near Grenoble, but with a new ambition : to attract players from all over Europe – and even farther – and many kids too.  Read more...

European pros at the 1st Tianfu Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 27.09.2018 19:30 | Comments: 1

The Tianfu Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship is a new competition in the go world. Its 1st session was held from the 20th to the 27th of September in Beijing, China. Europe was represented by two EGF professional players: Ilya Shikshin 2p (Russia) and Ali Jabarin 2p (Israel).  Read more...

Report on CEGO academic program (2)

By Gabriel Wagner | International | 23.09.2018 3:35 | Comments: 4

In this article, I will describe how our daily study at the go school in Beijing unfolds.
When we came back to Beijing after the Silk Road Tournament, we still had more than a week until the regular school would start. Time for some exploration of the apartment, places to eat and of course the best way to the go school and the school itself.  Read more...

Go tournament at Eastern Economic Forum 2018

By Artem Kachanovskyi | International | 18.09.2018 20:47 | Comments: 3

The Eastern Economic Forum 2018 Go Tournament was held from 11th to 13th September in Vladivostok, Russia.  Read more...

European Women Go Championship 2018

By Marika Dubiel | News | 14.09.2018 18:03 | Comments: 2

The European Female Go Championship 2018 took place in Helsinki (Finland) on 8th-9th September. With 29 participants from 9 countries, it was one of the largest European female championships, and as 16 were dan players, also the strongest one.  Read more...

Chinese C League 2018 was held from 10th to 20th June 2018 in Wuxi, China

By Artem Kachanovskyi | International | 05.09.2018 18:01 | Comments: 5

It was the second time that the European team took part in this league. The European Pro Championship 2018 in Vatra Dornei, Romania, was used to decide who would play for Europe, and the qualifiers were: Pavol Lisy 2p, Ilya Shikshin 2p, and me (Artem Kachanovskyi 1p). The last player was selected by the chinese sponsors of our team - Tsinghua University. They picked Mateusz Surma 1p, the hero of the last year's C League. Last year Mateusz won 4 games in a row.  Read more...

The AlphaGo monument and Hochhaus Herrengasse - results and impressions

By Viktor Lin | News | 01.09.2018 14:04 | Comments: 1

The dramatic showdown between the best players of Europe has concluded.  Read more...