6th European Professional Championship Starts Soon

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 07.06.2023 13:13

Announcement of the 6th European Professional Championship After a two-year break, the European Professional Championship is back! Its sixth edition will take place on the OGS on June 21st – 25th and the games will be commented live by European professionals on the EGF Twitch channel. You will see in action… Read more...

European Professional Online Go League: Season 2

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 15.06.2020 12:59

Announcement of the second season of the European Professional Online Go League The first season of the European Professional Online Go League finished one month ago – on May 17th. You can read a summary of it in the recent Go news article. The second season will start on June… Read more...

European Professional Online Go League starts soon

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 16.03.2020 11:22

Announcement of the European Professional Online Go League It’s been a while since some of us, EGF pros, have got an idea of running online pro league. The idea is the following: to play on fixed days of the week, at fixed time, and to comment those games on the… Read more...

Europe wins the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 14.07.2019 19:00

Review of the inaugural Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019 This year for the first time Europe and America had their first official professional match. The full name of the event was the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship, and you can find all the details on the official website. For… Read more...

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

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 04.07.2019 21:25

A review of the Chinese C League 2019 Intro The Chinese C League 2019 was held in Quzhou, China from the 13th – 23rd June. It was the third time that the European team to participate in this competition. You can read about the two previous years in the following articles:  C… 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 The European Professional Championship 2019 was held from the 6th to the 8th of March in Jena, Germany. It is a annual tournament for professional Go players living in Europe. The tournament was organized by JIGS in… Read more...

The first year of the professional promotion system in Europe

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 29.12.2018 20:52

An overview of the professional promotion system in Europe and its first year of operation As the year 2018 is coming to an end, we also mark 1 year since the professional promotion system was established in Europe. I’ve been asked by several Go players:exactly how does the promotion system… Read more...

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

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 23.11.2018 9:52

A review of the 2018 European Championship final using the Golaxy software. The final game in the European Championship of 2018 was played on the 5th August between Pavol Lisy 2p and Ilya Shikshin 2p. Pavol won the game and became the new European champion. At the start of October… Read more...

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

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 27.09.2018 19:30

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). The Tianfu… 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… Read more...