European Go Journal: New Project Starts

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 05.03.2021 14:40

An announcement of the European Go Journal – a new project The online world entered into the era of video content a long time ago. The success of such platforms as YouTube is obvious, and we all notice even more videos appearing on websites and social networks. In European go,… Read more...

Special General Meeting January 2021

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 06.02.2021 20:07

Due to the uncertainity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many of the administrative and planning tasks of the EGF couldn’t be handled at the usual Annual Meeting in July 2020. Several countries couldn’t vote at that meeting as they had lost their status as a developing country, they would have… Read more...

Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads… Read more...

2020 European online Championship

By Jean-Yves Papazoglou | News | 12.10.2020 20:21

Every year during our European go congress (EGC), the European go championship (EC) is organised. Due to the COVID19 pandemic the 2020 EGC couldn’t take place in Ukraine. Hence, the European go championship was cancelled, and we lost our funding for its prizes. Every year during our European go congress… Read more...

Recent Go News: Summer and first half of Autumn

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 09.10.2020 20:58

News Round-Up about the biggest recent Go events in Europe All the major European tournaments have gone online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Last spring I was still hoping that things can get better, and that perhaps in late summer or the early autumn we can all meet and play go… Read more...

Pandanet Go European Team Championship – France keeps its European title

By Antoine Fenech | News | 03.09.2020 20:17

The French team managed last weekend to remain European champions after defeating Ukraine, Czechia and Russia. During the regular season, Junfu, Tanguy, Thomas, Benjamin, Rémi and Florent did their job, taking second place in the league, and qualifying for the finals. Unfortunately, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the final… Read more...

Tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 26.08.2020 22:09

An announcement of the tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team Last spring we had an exciting online tournament between the teams of China and Europe. 10 players from each side struggled in an “arena” format, also known as win-and-continue. In the end, it was the team from China… Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2020, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 15.08.2020 18:52

The first online meeting in the history of the EGF took place on 28th July on Zoom with around 60 participants of which 27 directly represented their country assocation. The first online meeting in the history of the EGF took place on 28th July on Zoom with around 60 participants… Read more...

Recent Go News: Corona Cup, PGETC, Online Pro League

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 19.05.2020 13:20

Recent Go News about the biggest online Go tournaments I will not repeat what I said before about the COVID-19 outbreak and its influence on Go life in Europe. We all know the situation, and we all miss our favorite game and our tournaments, our friends. For many of us Go… Read more...

EGC 2020 in Ukraine is moved to year 2021

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 26.04.2020 11:14

Announcement about the EGC 2020 being moved to the year 2021 Due to the conditions created by the COVID-19 outbreak, international Go tournaments in Europe have been cancelled or postponed indefinitely. Naturally, most of the European Go players were wondering about the biggest event of the year – the EGC.… Read more...