5th Pro qualification 2019 – Final

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 19:45

Tanguy Le Calvé 6d from France will play against Lukáš Podpera 7d from Czechia to decide who will be the next EGF Pro. After some big fights in the semi-finals, Tanguy Le Calvé 6d of France will play against Lukáš Podpera 7d of Czechia to decide who will become the… Read more...

11th Strasbourg international go tournament

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 17:28

The 11th Strasbourg international go tournamentan event during the weekend next to the pro qualification 2019. Another big success for the Strasbourg tournament. The EGF pro qualification gave us a great opportunity to gather the best European players in Strasbourg this year. All games and results of the 5th EGF… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Quarter- and Semi-finals

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 9:57

We have now entered the stage of single KO with only eight players left. We have now entered the stage of single KO with only eight players left. For the results look here. This morning, because of the weekend tournament, play in the Pro Qualification has been moved to another… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Round 2 and 3

By Tony Claasen | News | 17.05.2019 11:03

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional. A peaceful morning, all 16 players arrived in time for the start of the second round. Jonas Welticke, Sinan Djepov, Oscar Vázquez and Schayan Hamrah lost both their first round and second round and… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Round 1

By Tony Claasen | News | 16.05.2019 16:24

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional The first round started with a small upset as the players Anton Chernykh and Vjacheslav Kajmin from Russia missed a connecting flight and sadly lost their first round games by default because of this.… Read more...

Expanding New Horizons on EGF Twitch

By Xiaocheng-Stephen Hu | News | 14.05.2019 17:13

Greetings everyone! Today, we are excited to make a few announcements on the official EGF Twitch channel. As you may have seen or heard before, we have been producing live game commentaries from major European Go events since October 2018. Today, as we reach 5 million views and 5.8k followers,… Read more...

Yike Cup, The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 04.05.2019 21:00

The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament, also called Yike Cup, was held 25th – 28th April in Berlin, Germany. For those who are not familiar with the Grand Slam, let me explain in a few words what it is. Grand Slam is the most prestigious tournament in Europe with… Read more...

Fan Hui 2p guest of honour during Amsterdam Go Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 10.04.2019 16:16

Great news for the participants of the 48th Amsterdam International Go Tournament (AIGT)! DeepMind ambassador Fan Hui 2p will be present at the event and will present a lecture about AlphaGo. The AIGT is an EGF Bonus Point Tournament (level B) and will take place from 30th of May until… Read more...

Turkish Play-Offs & Turkish Women’s Go Championship 2019

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 25.03.2019 0:16

Turkey is one of the most active go countries in Europe, with a large base of players and enthusiastic organisers. In the weekend of 2-3 February both the Turkish Play-Off Tournament and the Turkish Women’s Go Championship took place in İstanbul. Tuğkan Eren (2 dan) and Birand Adal (2 dan)… Read more...

European Grand Prix Finale 2018

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 03.02.2019 10:20

A review of the European Grand Prix Finale 2018 and a description of the European Grand Prix system The European Grand Prix Finale 2018 was held from 24th to 27th January in Olomouc, Czechia. This was the second edition of this tournament, the first time the winner was Ali Jabarin. European Grand… Read more...