The multilingual Go book's journey has begun

By H. Kapolos | News | 26.12.2018 14:11

At the beginning of December, the multilingual Go book project was launched!
The goal of the project is to create a Go book that will be translated to as many languages as possible, in order to provide an additional way to promote and spread Go in countries that do not have a Go tradition and their native language is not English.
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Dutch Pair Go Championship 2018

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 19.12.2018 9:05 | Comments: 1

On Saturday 8 December the national Pair Go Championship of the Netherlands took place in the European Go Cultural Centre. A total of eleven pairs fought for the title of Dutch pair go champions.
Yvonne Roelofs (4 kyu) and Michiel Eijkhout (5 dan) won all four matches and defended their title of 2017.  Read more...

Organising EGC 2018

By Francesco Potortì | Articles | 26.11.2018 19:39

With 1200 showing up, the EGC 2018 in Pisa was the largest European Go Congress ever.   Read more...

European Championship 2018 final game (Pavol vs Ilya): review using Golaxy

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 23.11.2018 9:52 | Comments: 2

A review of the 2018 European Championship final using the Golaxy software.  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...

Report on CEGO academic program (3) - Huai An - a go city or a ghost city?

By Gabriel Wagner | International | 27.10.2018 11:04 | Comments: 2

From September 14th to September 18th, we went to a Chinese amateur tournament in Huai An, which is located about 250 km to the north-west of Beijing. This city only has a small population and the streets were almost empty most of the time; however, a lot of buildings were still under construction, so it seems the city is just being built right now. This gave the whole location a very special atmosphere which could hardly be found in any European city.
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TIGGRE – Ellie Cup, a level B bonus tournament in Grenoble

By Dominique Cornuejols | News | 27.10.2018 8:20

The TIGGRE – Ellie Cup, which took place in Grenoble on 13-14 October, is the beautiful product of two dreams :
The TIGGRE (acronym of Tournoi International de Go de GREnoble), open to all players, of all strengths and ages, in a nice and cheerful atmosphere, initiated by the Grenoble Go Club team, and modelled on the Ze Tournoi, organised every year around the 1st of May in a castle near Grenoble, but with a new ambition : to attract players from all over Europe – and even farther – and many kids too.  Read more...

European pros at the 1st Tianfu Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 27.09.2018 19:30 | Comments: 1

The Tianfu Cup World Professional Weiqi Championship is a new competition in the go world. Its 1st session was held from the 20th to the 27th of September in Beijing, China. Europe was represented by two EGF professional players: Ilya Shikshin 2p (Russia) and Ali Jabarin 2p (Israel).  Read more...

Report on CEGO academic program (2)

By Gabriel Wagner | International | 23.09.2018 3:35 | Comments: 4

In this article, I will describe how our daily study at the go school in Beijing unfolds.
When we came back to Beijing after the Silk Road Tournament, we still had more than a week until the regular school would start. Time for some exploration of the apartment, places to eat and of course the best way to the go school and the school itself.  Read more...