An interview with Lukáš Podpěra

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 20.04.2021 10:18 | Comments: 1

This interview with Lukáš Podpěra was planned for 2 sessions after we had a small discussion about playing online.

Focus on yourself and be honest in your game and the plans you set.
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Interview with Ilya Shikshin, European Champion 2020

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 05.11.2020 22:47 | Comments: 2

An interview with Ilya Shikshin 3p (Russia) who has just won the 2020 European Championship  Read more...

IMSA World Masters Championship 2019: interview with the European team

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 24.05.2019 21:56 | Comments: 1

Interview with the European team, who just participated in the IMSA World Masters Championship 2019  Read more...

Interview with Tanguy Le Calvé, the 7th European Pro

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 20.05.2019 20:48 | Comments: 3

Interview with Tanguy Le Calvé, who has just become the 7th European Professional player  Read more...

World Women Team Conquest

Interviews | 11.04.2019 11:09

An interview with Camille Lévêque on the new international initiative called World Women Team Conquest.  Read more...

Interview with Dutch champion Geert Groenen

By Kim Ouweleen | Interviews | 24.02.2019 20:14

The 2019 Dutch Go Championships took place in the weekends of 12-13th and 26-27th of January. Seven rounds were played to decide the winner. In the final, Geert Groenen 5 dan defeated Alexander Eerbeek 5 dan and secured his second title as Dutch champion. Yvonne Roelofs 4 kyu became Dutch women's champion.  Read more...

Visiting the future EGF professionals in Beijing

By Marc Oliver Rieger | Interviews | 03.11.2018 14:04

If you're on a business trip in Beijing and have some free time, what's on the sightseeing program? Great Wall, Forbidden City, Summer Palace and No. 18 Beijing Middle School. The latter may not be the classic address for Chinese tourists, but this is exactly where six selected people from Europe stay every year as part of the CEGO programme to (maybe?) become professionals at some point in the future. This year's participants: Stanislaw Freijlak from Poland, Oscar Vazquez from Spain, Anton Chernykh from Russia, Sinan Djepov from Bulgaria, Dominik Boviz from Hungary and Gabriel Wagner from Germany. As a correspondent for the EGF, Gabriel also regularly writes articles here about living and learning in China, but maybe a neutral investigative journalist like me will uncover secrets about their stay?  Read more...

Meeting Cho Hye-yeon 9p in Seoul

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 12.07.2018 16:02

An interview with one of the strongest professional female go players of today.
Cho Hye-yeon is one of only five Females holding the 9p rank.  Read more...

Gian-Carlo Pascutto - The man behind LeelaZero

Interviews | 24.05.2018 21:44 | Comments: 7

An interview with Gian-Carlo Pascutto the author of LeelaZero, the popular professional level program.  Read more...