Meijin Title and 7 Crowns

By Tony Claasen | International | 17.10.2017 18:27

Iyama Yuta wins Meijin Title and once more holds all 7 top titles in one hand.  Read more...

Go Teachers' Day in the EGCC

By Kim Ouweleen | International | 16.10.2017 14:02

On Friday 20 October, one day before the 25 Years EGCC Anniversary Go Tournament, the European Go Cultural Centre organises a special seminar for go teachers in Europe.  Read more...

4th Silk road tournament

By Pavol Lisy | International | 10.10.2017 13:22 | Comments: 2

The 4th Silk Road International City Weiqi Tournament takes place this year in Tianshui, China. 13 European players have come this year to fight for generous prizes and the title. 2017's European champion and the winner of 3rd Silk Road Tournament Ilya Shikshin 1p is also participating. Can he defend his title?  Read more...

The 12th Korea Prime Minister Cup International Amateur Baduk Championship

By Laura Avram | International | 17.09.2017 13:29

Korea was the host of two important tournaments this month: The Samsung Cup (top 32) and The Korea Prime Minister Cup.  Read more...

International Vienna Tournament 2017

By Laura Avram | International | 19.06.2017 16:08

The Vienna International Tournament took place on the 17th and 18th of June in the city's outskirts at one of Vienna's schools for tourism. Do you think that a beautiful Saturday would be enough to persuade the bravest of go players to go to the lake or next to the Danube to swim instead of coming to the go tournament? Only fools maybe! Over 60 players came to Vienna from all over Europe and didn't let themselves blinded by the beautiful illusion of summer. (And a good decision it was, since the rain decided to show them fools). The tournament started with the hope of the strong players to beat Kim Seong-Jin, who has been defeated only by Oh Chi Min since his arrival in Europe. Would anyone be successful?   Read more...

38th WAGC in Guiyang, China

By Viktor Lin | International | 12.06.2017 12:58 | Comments: 3

The 38th World Amateur Go Championship, held at Sheraton Hotel in Guiyang, China from 2 to 9 June, concluded with the flawless victory of the Chinese representative Bai Baoxiang 8d.
This year, the competition for the runner-up places was extremely close. No one scored 7 victories, so the SOS tiebreaker played a big role in the distribution of the following places.  Read more...

World Student OZA Championship 2017

By Laura Avram | International | 27.02.2017 20:04

The World Student OZA Championship took place last week week at the Ginza Internet Forum in Tokyo. It was the 15th edition so far and 16 players from all over the world competed over4 rounds in order to decide the world's best student go player.  Read more...

Romanian Winter Go Camp 2017 - Review

By Laura Avram | International | 17.02.2017 11:31 | Comments: 1

In a small town in the Carpathian mountains, almost 30 years ago, among other children and teenagers, there were two who got to define the way in which go would develop later in Europe. Their go teacher was a mathematician who to this very day still teaches children in the same little town. Did I catch your attention?   Read more...

Mysterious Tygem user Master(P) turns out to be AlphaGo

By Fabian Bambusch | International | 04.01.2017 22:58 | Comments: 2

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has confirmed via Twitter just now that mysterious Tygem user Master(P) who managed an amazing 60-0 winning streak against professionals is none other than go AI AlphaGo itself.
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