Pair Go at the European Go Congress

History

Since 1992 there has been a Pair Go Championship at the annual European Go Congress, except in 1998. For years this was a friendly event with handicap games and lots of entries, even though it was held on one of the days off from the main event, or during an evening or two. But recently it has switched to a serious tournament with prize money for the top players. Pairs are often made up players from different nations, which cannot happen in the EPGC. In 2011 the event attracted 90 pairs.

See the reports of the congresses for details of each Pair Go event (where available).

Scan of photo report from Dublin in 2001    Page One (252 kb)   Page Two (296 kb)

Results of St. Petersburg 2003

Photos from Villach in 2007

Results from Tampere, 2010

Winners

• 1992 Daniela Trinks and Carsten Klaus
• 1993 Guo Juan and Rob van Ziejst
• 1994 Guo Juan and Matti Groot
• 1995 Guo Juan and Rob Kok
• 1996 Hoa-Jiang Zou and Laurent Heiser
• 1997 Guo Juan and Lee Hyuk
• 1998 Ruxandra Ilie and Miyakawa Wataru
• 1999 Marta Natecz and Marcin Wolak
• 2000 Fu Hongmei and Dionisio Barrasa
• 2001 Annamarie Hoving and Niek van Diepen
• 2002 Olga Mezhova and Hirobumi Ohmori
• 2003 Kang Na-Yeon and Park Sung-Kyun
• 2004 Alexandra Urban and Piotr Wisthal
• 2005 Kim Se-Young and Kim Dong-Chan
• 2006 Monika Reimpell and Christian Gawron
• 2007 Maria Zakharchenko and Yury Pliushch
• 2008 Daniela Trinks and Lee Seung-Geun
• 2009 Chang Cheng Ping and Siu Hong Chung
• 2010 Klara Zaloudkova and Mok Chin-Seok
• 2011 Rita Pocsai and Jan Simara