38th WAGC in Guiyang, China

By Viktor Lin | International | 12.06.2017 12:58

The 38th World Amateur Go Championship, held at Sheraton Hotel in Guiyang, China from 2 to 9 June, concluded with the flawless victory of the Chinese representative Bai Baoxiang 8d. This year, the competition for the runner-up places was extremely close. No one scored 7 victories, so the SOS tiebreaker… Read more...

World Student OZA Championship 2017

By Laura Avram | International | 27.02.2017 20:04

The World Student OZA Championship took place last week week at the Ginza Internet Forum in Tokyo. It was the 15th edition so far and 16 players from all over the world competed over4 rounds in order to decide the world’s best student go player. The World Student OZA Championship… Read more...

Romanian Winter Go Camp 2017 – Review

By Laura Avram | International | 17.02.2017 11:31

In a small town in the Carpathian mountains, almost 30 years ago, among other children and teenagers, there were two who got to define the way in which go would develop later in Europe. Their go teacher was a mathematician who to this very day still teaches children in the… Read more...

Mysterious Tygem user Master(P) turns out to be AlphaGo

By Fabian Bambusch | International | 04.01.2017 22:58

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has confirmed via Twitter just now that mysterious Tygem user Master(P) who managed an amazing 60-0 winning streak against professionals is none other than go AI AlphaGo itself. In the last few days of 2016 a then unknown user made quite the splash on the Korean… Read more...

The 27th International Amateur Pair Go Championship

By Laura Avram | International | 12.12.2016 15:51

The 27th International Amateur Pair Go Championship took place in Tokyo on the 3rd and 4th December 2016 at the same time as the 3rd World Students Pair Go Championship and the JAPG Cup (the latter being a tournament only for Japanese players). Having now arrived at the 27th edition,… Read more...

3rd World Students Pair Go Championship in Japan

By Laura Avram | International | 11.12.2016 23:06

This year, together with three more European players, I had the pleasure to participate in the 3rd edition of the World Students Pair Go Championship in Japan. The event took place on the 3rd and 4th December 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. This year, together with three more European players, I… Read more...

Cho Chikun 9p defeats AI DeepZen by 2-1

By Pavol Lisy | International | 23.11.2016 10:47

The Nihon Ki-in (Japanese Go association) agreed with Deep Zen Go‘s programmer and its sponsor to set up a ‘three games match’ with the legendary Cho Chikun (9p) on 19th, 20th and 23rd November 2016. The games were very interesting, and it seems like Cho Chikun(9) knows how to play… Read more...

Artem advances to the 13th Sankei Cup main tournament

By Viktor Lin | International | 02.11.2016 18:15

The preliminary rounds of the 13th Sankei Cup were played on 31 October and 2 November 2016. This is the third time that the Kansai Ki-in invites foreign pros to play in the annual tournament sponsored by the Sankei newspaper. Europe was represented by the EGF pros Artem Kachanovskiy 1p… Read more...

Lucky Seven in China: 2016 Gold Cup World Amateur Go Tournament.

By Marika Dubiel | International | 21.09.2016 14:04

Seven European players amongst the 32 finalists. Seven rounds for the 1st prize of nearly 27,000 Euro. And the top seven places taken by the representatives of one single country! What exactly happened in Xiamen? The finals of the 2016 Gold Cup World Amateur Go Tournament were played between the… Read more...

Korean Prime Minister Cup 2016

By Marika Dubiel | International | 13.09.2016 20:17

Last week Korean Prime Minister Cup 2016 was played in Buan County, Korea. Find out why that part of Korea has a special relationship with Go, and how the European players performed in the tournament. (with special thanks to Herman Hiddema) Group photo This year, for the 11th time, the… Read more...