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...

Winter Go Festival 2020 in Vatra Dornei

By Tony Claasen | News | 19.02.2020 17:31

Once more Go and Skiing were combined harmoniously. Vatra Dornei saw lots of fun being had, inside and outside, playing in the beautiful and family friendly environment. Winter Go Festival 2020 Vatra Dornei! A view from my hotel room. The start of a week, meeing friends and having fun. It… Read more...

Obituary of Valery Shikshin

By egf_admin | News | 18.02.2020 20:15

Obituary of Valery Shikshin, legendary Russian go instructor Valery Shikshin passed away on the 18th of February 2020. Valery dedicated his life to training young go players in Kazan, Russia. Three of his students became professional go players: Ilya Shikshin 3p, Svetlana Shikshina 3p, and Alexander Dinerchtein 3p. His students… Read more...

A record participation for the third edition of the TIGGRE – Ellie Cup

By Dominique Cornuejols | News | 14.02.2020 20:54

The TIGGRE – Ellie Cup took place on 1st and 2nd February 2020, once again in the great venue of the WTC Congress Centre in Grenoble. There were 157 participants from 16 countries who showed up to play in one of the four competitions organised by the Grenoble Go Club… Read more...

European Grand Prix Final

By Tony Claasen | News | 19.01.2020 17:38

The Final of this year’s event was held in Leksand, Sweden. On the 15th of January I got up early on the morning, at 3:00 am, packed and ready for my journey to Leksand for the Grand Prix Final.Starting from Hamburg Airport I flew to Stockholm. It was something of… Read more...

6th Silk Road Tournament 2019 Vienna

By Tony Claasen | News | 06.11.2019 12:53

In his speech at the closing ceremony the sponsor Zhou Deming from the Xi An Go Association congratulated all the players for their high level, balanced games and results. The team prize was won by team Xian from China and a European won the individual tournament. The 6th Silk Road… Read more...