Online European Championship 2020 (EGF Grand Prix Bonus point A) 

32 top European players (passport of EGF member country required) will participate in the event. They can be either amateur or professional players.

The players qualify for participation in order of their best achieved EGF-ratings within the last twelve months (September 21st 2019 – September 20th 2020), as given in the EGF rating database by September 20th 2020.

This is a bonus point A tournament, the first 8 players will win points for the European Grand Prix.

This event will  be submitted to EGD as a class A event (anti cheating measures are implemented).

Online EGC 2020

Date : September 24th - November 2nd, 2020
Place : OGS, https://online-go.com
Sponsors: EGF
EGD: E200924A

1st place: Ilya Shikshin
2nd place: Ali Jabarin
3rd place: Artem Kachanovskyi
4th place: Mateusz Surma

Pairings / Results

 

Place 3/4

 

Tournament System (games are played on OGS server)

a) Qualification Round 1: 24th September - 30th September Sept 24th 2:30pm CEST: Lucas Neirynck (24) (Cassis) vs Sinan Djepov (25) (exploreBaduk)
Sept 27th 9:00am CEST: Grigoriu Ioan Elian (elianovici) (23) vs Valerii Krushelnytskyi (Valerii K) (26)
Sept 28th 2:00am CEST: Rémi Campagnie (16) (RemiC) vs Anton Zatonskikh (32 ) (antonkhv)
Sept 28th 6:00pm CEST: Lukas Kraemer (Lukas.kramer.739) (22) vs Schayan Hamrah (xxx) (27)
Sept 28th 8:00pm CEST: Vjacheslav Kajmin (dfvgbhnjk) (21) vs Ondrej Kruml (OndraKruml) (28)
Sept 29th 6:00am CEST: Timur Sankin (SanKingTim) (19) vs Javier-Aleksi Savolainen (Assu) (30) (45mn + 20s / move)
Sept 29th 10:00am CEST: Amir Fragman (Wade) (20) vs Matias Pankoke (xxx) (29)
Sept 30th 6:00pm CEST: Oscar Vazquez (18)(dacat1) vs Igor Burnaevskij (1) (HappyLook)
b) Qualification Round 2: 1st October - 13th October October 5th 9:30am CEST - 10:30am Moscow time: Alexander Dinerstein (9) vs Lucas Neirynck (Cassis) (24)
October 8th 1:00pm CEST: Anton Chernykh (13) vs Amir Fragman (20)
October 9th 3:00pm CEST: Cornel Burzo (15) (cornel11) vs Oscar Vazquez (18) (dacat1)
October 9th 7:30pm CEST: Csaba Mero (mero.csaba) (16) Rémi Campagnie (RemiC) (17)
Ocotber 10th 2:00pm CEST: Tanguy Le Calvé (10) vs Valerii Krushelnytskyi ( Valerii K) (26)
October 11th 11:00am CEST: Drean-Guenaizia Benjamin (14) (Ben0) vs Javier-Aleksi Savolainen (30) (Assu)
October 12th 7:30pm CEST: Nikola Mitic (12) (nidza) vs Vjacheslav Kajmin (21) (dfvgbhnjk)
October 13th 7:00pm CEST : Dusan Mitic (11) vs Lukas Kraemer (22) (lukas.kramer.739)
c) Championship Round 1: 15th October - 17th October October 16th 10:00am CEST: Lukas Podpera (3) (Lukan) vs Drean-Guenaizia Benjamin (14) (ben0)
October 16th 2:00pm CEST: Viktor Lin (7) ( Sandmann6d) vs Tanguy Le Calvé (10) (Welvang)
Ocotber 16th 7:00pm CEST: Ilya Shikshin (1) (roln90) vs Rémi Campagnie (16) (RemiC)
October 17th 10:00am CEST: Artem Kachanovskyi (2) vs Oscar Vazquez (18) (dacat1)
October 17th 1:00pm CEST: Stanislaw Frejlak (4) (Siaso) vs Anton Chernykh (13) ( AshesOfDreams)
October 17th 3:00pm CEST: Andrii Kravets (8) vs Lucas Neirynck (24) (Cassis)
October 17th 6:00pm CEST: Mateusz Surma (5) vs Nikola Mitic (12) (nidza)
October 18th 6:00pm CEST (exception to the schedule): Ali Jabarin (6) vs Lukas Kraemer (22) (lukas.kramer.739)
c) Championship Round 2: 18th October - 20th October October 19th 10:00am CEST: Artem Kachanovskyi 2p (2) vs Tanguy Le Calvé 1p (10)
October 19th 1:00pm CEST: Ali Jabarin 2p (6) vs Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 6d (14)
October 19th 4:00pm CEST: Mateusz Surma 1p (5) vs Anton Chernykh 7d (13)
October 19th 7:00pm CEST: Ilya Shikshin 3p (1) vs Andrii Kravets 1p (8)
e) Half Finals:
with EGF Twitch live commentaries (*)
twitch.tv/europeangofederation

Best of three on two days,
on the first day two games		 NEW SCHEDULE (**)
October 24: 10:00am
& 6:00pm CEST

October 25: 4:00pm CET
(summer time is over in EU)

October 29: 10:00am
& 6:00pm CET

October 30: 6:00pm CET
Ilya Shikshin (1) vs Mateusz Surma (5)
Mateusz Surma (5) vs Ilya Shikshin (1) live commentaries around 7pm CEST

decisive game (nigiri for the color) Ilya Shikshin


Artem Kachanovskyi (2) vs Ali Jabarin (6)
Ali Jabarin (6) vs Artem Kachanovskyi (2)

decisive game(s) if needed (nigiri for the color) Ali Jabarin
f) Finals:
with EGF Twitch live commentaries 
twitch.tv/europeangofederation

Games for championship and third place, best of three,
same mode like in the half finals.		 NEW SCHEDULE (**)
November 1: 10:00am
& 6:00pm CET




November 2: 6:00 pm CET
Iya Shikshin (1) vs Ali Jabarin (6)
Ali Jabarin (6) vs Ilya Shikshin (1)

Artem Kachanovskyi (2) vs Mateusz Surma (5)
Mateusz Surma (5) vs Artem Kachanovskyi (2)

decisive game needed (nigiri for the color): Ali Jabarin vs Ilya Shikshin 
* contribution 2€ / game our 10€ for all games - to be paid in advance via our crowfunding platform: https://www.okpal.com/egf/
 **: due to an happy event on Artem side

Control-system:
a) Camera-control in all games a) to d) without proctors : players will record themselves playing as well as their screen - to be kept until the next phase
b) Camera-control with proctors for the games e) and f)
c) Always possible to play from home

In case of a claim, game will be sent to the anti-cheating commission: Antti Törmänen (1p), Zhao Baolong (2p) and Yoon Young-sun (8p)

Proctors:
The national go organization is responsible for nominating one (or several) proctor (s) for its (maximum 4) participant(s) to semi-finals and finals.

Pairings:
Pairings for the first round is based on:
The order of the ranking at the previous EC for the Top 8
EGF rating by September 20th 2020 otherwise.

The stronger player (by initial ranking) plays with white for all rounds.

Time settings: Fischer Time, 60 minutes basic, 30 sec per move additional - OGS server to be used as it enables Fischer time - Japanese rule komi 6.5

Prize Money

Prize-money: goal 5.000 Euro (it will depend upon the crowdfunding campaign) for the TOP 4 players (40%/30%/20%/10%)
Crowdfunding: https://www.okpal.com/egf/

On Nov 2nd: 3590€ already collected

Rules

In the Rules of the European Go Championship you can find the setup of the european championship with more details about the selection criteria.