Go Magic: When Quality Matters

By Vadim Efimenko | Articles | 17.05.2021 23:30

Introducing a new Go project from wintery Russia, developed by a couple of guys who love Go more than balalaikas and borscht. Interactive courses, skill trees and lots of magic! Who Are You Guys? You might have heard of Go Magic somewhere, but we don’t really know each other. So… Read more...

The European Pro League is now Transatlantic

By Ali Jabarin | International | 04.05.2021 23:46

Announcement of the 4th season of the Professional Online Go League. This time the American professional players are joining and the league changes its name to Transatlantic. The Professional Go League is coming back with a season four bigger than ever. In cooperation with the NAGF we are excited to introduce… Read more...

An interview with Lukáš Podpěra

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 20.04.2021 10:18

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. This interview with Lukáš Podpěra started with some questions I sent him via email, followed by a small… Read more...

European Go Journal: New Project Starts

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 05.03.2021 14:40

An announcement of the European Go Journal – a new project The online world entered into the era of video content a long time ago. The success of such platforms as YouTube is obvious, and we all notice even more videos appearing on websites and social networks. In European go,… Read more...

Spanish translation completed for the Multilingual Go book Project

By H. Kapolos | Articles | 20.02.2021 20:38

Another completed translation of the Multilingual Go project’s book, joins the already existing English, French and Greek versions. This time it was the Spanish language’s turn, which is another step in the project’s goal of making Go content more accessible to new players, in their native language. Another completed translation… Read more...

Special General Meeting January 2021

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 06.02.2021 20:07

Due to the uncertainity caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many of the administrative and planning tasks of the EGF couldn’t be handled at the usual Annual Meeting in July 2020. Several countries couldn’t vote at that meeting as they had lost their status as a developing country, they would have… Read more...

Take part in the 1st International „End Polio Now“ Go Tournament!

By Christoph Klawe | News | 20.12.2020 18:45

Sure, there are more important problems in life than Go, but sometimes Go can help at least a little bit to solve these issues, too. One such issue is poliomyelitis („polio“). This terrible virus disease used to be very frequent. It affects mostly children, destroys nerve centers and often leads… Read more...

Interview with Ilya Shikshin, European Champion 2020

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 05.11.2020 22:47

An interview with Ilya Shikshin 3p (Russia) who has just won the 2020 European Championship This year the European Championship was organized online from September 24th till November 2nd. 32 of the strongest European players were fighting for the title of the European champion. A special tournament system was applied… Read more...

2020 European online Championship

By Jean-Yves Papazoglou | News | 12.10.2020 20:21

Every year during our European go congress (EGC), the European go championship (EC) is organised. Due to the COVID19 pandemic the 2020 EGC couldn’t take place in Ukraine. Hence, the European go championship was cancelled, and we lost our funding for its prizes. Every year during our European go congress… Read more...

Recent Go News: Summer and first half of Autumn

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 09.10.2020 20:58

News Round-Up about the biggest recent Go events in Europe All the major European tournaments have gone online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Last spring I was still hoping that things can get better, and that perhaps in late summer or the early autumn we can all meet and play go… Read more...