The 8th European Pro Championship took place in Vienna, Go7 go club, on February 13-16. 7 European Pro players participated in a round robin tournament. Andrii Kravets 2p, actual 2-times-in-a-row-European-Champion, won the tournament! This was also a qualifier for the European team in the Pro Chinese League C.

This past week, the GO7 Go club in Vienna was bustling with activity as it hosted the Lanke Cup 8th Pro Qualification from February 10th, followed by the “Tsinghua Weiqi Foundation Cup” 8th European Pro Championship from February 13th to 16th.

The Pro Championship brought together seven European professional players, all competing against each other in a highly tense atmosphere. The stakes were high: not only was the final ranking determining the prize money, but it also decided which players would qualify in the European team in the Chinese League C, where they would get to fight Asian professionals.

Although many feared the tournament would end in tie-breakers due to the extremely close results each round, the final day provided a decisive outcome.
The double European Champion Andrii Kravets 2p 🇺🇦 won the tournament with five victories out of six, followed by Ali Jabarin 2p and Artem Kachanovskyi 3p 🇺🇦, both scoring four points.

All games and results are available here, and the matches were commented live on Twitch by Elian Grigoriu 6d, Li Ting 1p (bye round), and Fredrik Blomback 7d, together with the Pro Qualification games.

Congratulations to Andrii for his victory and to all the players for an incredibly high-level tournament!

A huge thank you to the GO7 club, staff, volunteers for the wonderful organisation and live updates, and to the players and the entire community for following this exciting week of Go with such enthusiasm!!