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...

European Student Go Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 02.10.2019 8:56

Review of the European Student Go Championship 2019 This year European Student Go Championship was held 28-29 September in Kyiv, Ukraine. 23 players from 7 different countries took part in the competition. In my opinion, this year the European Students Championship had exceptional conditions. Not only that all the participants… Read more...

EWGC 2019 in Trier

By Nicole De Beer | News | 11.09.2019 9:23

Nicole de Beer reports on the European Women’s Go Championship from Trier. On 6, 7 and 8 September the European Women’s Go Championship was played in Trier. It was quite a strong tournament, between them, the 36 players held 45 dan. It was also a representative affair, with 11 countries… Read more...

Teach the Teachers, 5-6 October

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 09.08.2019 14:12

European go teachers and enthusiastic promoters of our sport are cordially invited to Teach the Teachers, a special event that will take place in the weekend of 5-6 October 2019 in the European Go Cultural Centre. Three professional go players from Japan, Korea and China will be flown over to… Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2019, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 02.08.2019 12:37

23 countries out of 37 sent a representative to the annual general meeting this year almost the same number as in previous years! Only half of the representatives pre-register which makes it bit difficult to figure out who is actually there but in fact most of these people repeat their… Read more...

Children Tournament

By Tony Claasen | News | 30.07.2019 11:00

Monday 29th of July 2019 a not so hot day and over 30 children wanting to play in the children´s tournament. An over enthusiastic me, freely volunteered to organize the organize the children´s tournament for this years Congress.I got lucky as Klaus Petri also volunteered to help me with the… Read more...