Dutch Championships 2017: Two stars. Ten winners. Many surprises.

By Marika Dubiel | News | 01.02.2017 10:37 | Comments: 5

Ten players received money prizes after the finals of the Dutch Championship. The Dutch champion was undefeated. The female champion is still unknown. Find the story, the photos and the games from the last weekend in this report.  Read more...

EGF Pros vs Blackie on Tygem

By Pavol Lisy | News | 03.01.2017 18:06 | Comments: 10

In order to celebrate the upcoming new TYGEM mobile app this February and the new desktop client this July, TYGEM is pleased to announce a historical event: a competition between Kim Seung-Jun and EGF Pros!  Read more...

The 43rd London Open Go Congress

By Marika Dubiel | News | 01.01.2017 14:05

Not only the year 2016 ended yesterday, but also the 43rd London Open Go Congress. This article highlights the interesting facts and results from the last days of 2016 in London.  Read more...

Next european go congress will be in Oberhof, Germany

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 21.12.2016 22:10 | Comments: 21

After the organizers of both proposed locations got together and decided to give more time for the selection of the host of the EGC 2017 the board of the EGF stepped back from it's decision to give it to Sochi. The member consultation was done in a short just one week time from 10 to 19 December.  Read more...

Member consultation for next host of the European go congress

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 10.12.2016 15:12 | Comments: 16

Both organiser teams improved their proposals in order to have a fair objective selection of the next congress place in 2017. Members can cast their vote from 10th to 19th December by email to the EGF secretary. Each country's vote will be weighted as it is done in the general assembly, small countries have 1 vote, countries with more members up to 4 votes.  Read more...

New vote for selecting the host of the 2017 congress

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 04.12.2016 18:08 | Comments: 56

The feedback for the decision to give the congress to last year's organiser to hold it in Sochi in 2017 was quite a bit flooding the comment section here on the EGF webpage but of course not only here the decision was widely discussed! Now the organising teams of the russian and german go federation came together with the EGF president to find a solution to the difficult situation.  Read more...

European Go Congress 2017

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 27.11.2016 11:51 | Comments: 172

Following the recommendation of the EGF board the turkish organizing committee stepped back last week. In the meantime the EGF board managed to find two alternatives one from Germany (Oberhof) and one from Russia (Sochi). The board decided to give the congress 2017 to Russia, Sochi  Read more...

The 19th International Tournament "Go to Innovation"

By Pavol Lisy | News | 21.11.2016 17:00 | Comments: 2

The 19th International Tournament "Go to Innovation" was held this weekend, November 18th to 20th, in Berlin, Germany. Even though this tournament was small in regards to the number of participants, the prizes were big and mostly, it was very unusual and interesting competition.
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Herman Hiddema wins Dutch Inter Districts Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 27.10.2016 15:53

The INDIS, a yearly qualification tournament to determine who may compete in the Dutch Championships, was won by Herman Hiddema 4d from Groningen.
With him, six other INDIS players qualified for the Dutch Championships 2017.  Read more...