European Professional Online Go League: Season 2

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 15.06.2020 12:59 | Comments: 3

Announcement of the second season of the European Professional Online Go League  Read more...

European Professional Online Go League starts soon

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 16.03.2020 11:22 | Comments: 9

Announcement of the European Professional Online Go League  Read more...

Europe wins the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 14.07.2019 19:00 | Comments: 4

Review of the inaugural Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019  Read more...

European pros win the first match in the Chinese C League 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 04.07.2019 21:25 | Comments: 6

A review of the Chinese C League 2019  Read more...

European Professional Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 16.03.2019 21:48

A review of the European Professional Championship 2019 and a short description of JIGS  Read more...

The first year of the professional promotion system in Europe

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 29.12.2018 20:52 | Comments: 8

An overview of the professional promotion system in Europe and its first year of operation  Read more...

European Championship 2018 final game (Pavol vs Ilya): review using Golaxy

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 23.11.2018 9:52 | Comments: 2

A review of the 2018 European Championship final using the Golaxy software.  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...

Andrii Kravets fulfilled his quest. Ukraine has two EGF professionals.

By Jana Hricova | European Pros | 16.07.2017 17:07

The fourth European Professional Qualification (EPQ) is finally over, and we have to say that this year the competition was extremely tough and very interesting.
The tournament started with a double knock-out phase (the three rounds of this phase were played in Vienna) and ended with a single knock-out phase (the three rounds of the final phase of the competition in Pardubice). The top sixteen European players were ordered according to their ratings at the beginning of the EPQ and a fold pairing system was used - that is the 1st seed is paired with the 16th, the 2nd with the 15th etc. Nevertheless, after two rounds the 2nd seed was eliminated, and the 3rd seed also failed to survive the first phase of the qualification competition. Moreover, both, seeds 1 and 4 each suffered one loss during the first phase which was played in Vienna, and as a result, we arrived at an interesting and unexpected pairing chart for the final phase of the qualification tournament in Pardubice.  Read more...