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...

Junior Match between China and the UK

By egf_admin | International | 09.09.2020 9:52

An international match was played between teams from UK and China. The UK team was drawn from the national youth squad, which includes players up to age 19. The team from China was drawn from the pupils of Li Ang, a professional 3-dan. Their ages ranged from 6 to 10… Read more...

Pandanet Go European Team Championship – France keeps its European title

By Antoine Fenech | News | 03.09.2020 20:17

The French team managed last weekend to remain European champions after defeating Ukraine, Czechia and Russia. During the regular season, Junfu, Tanguy, Thomas, Benjamin, Rémi and Florent did their job, taking second place in the league, and qualifying for the finals. Unfortunately, due to the Covid 19 pandemic, the final… Read more...

Tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 26.08.2020 22:09

An announcement of the tournament between European Students and Fudan University Team Last spring we had an exciting online tournament between the teams of China and Europe. 10 players from each side struggled in an “arena” format, also known as win-and-continue. In the end, it was the team from China… Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2020, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 15.08.2020 18:52

The first online meeting in the history of the EGF took place on 28th July on Zoom with around 60 participants of which 27 directly represented their country assocation. The first online meeting in the history of the EGF took place on 28th July on Zoom with around 60 participants… Read more...