European Go Congress 2020 in Ukraine

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Articles | 02.09.2019 19:55

An announcement of the European Go Congress 2020, which will take place in the Ukraine The 2019 European Go Congress (EGC) in Brussels took place just a month ago. I am sure it was a great go holiday for all of the participants. You can read an article about EGC… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.08.2019 19:25

After the go congress comes the next go congress. One week ago the congress of 2019 ended for me and there are only 50 weeks to go before the next one starts. The go congress 2019 in Brussels ended on Sunday the 4th of August with a very good dinner… Read more...

Teach the Teachers, 5-6 October

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 09.08.2019 14:12

European go teachers and enthusiastic promoters of our sport are cordially invited to Teach the Teachers, a special event that will take place in the weekend of 5-6 October 2019 in the European Go Cultural Centre. Three professional go players from Japan, Korea and China will be flown over to… Read more...

Annual General Meeting 2019, some Updates

By Lorenz Trippel | News | 02.08.2019 12:37

23 countries out of 37 sent a representative to the annual general meeting this year almost the same number as in previous years! Only half of the representatives pre-register which makes it bit difficult to figure out who is actually there but in fact most of these people repeat their… Read more...

Children Tournament

By Tony Claasen | News | 30.07.2019 11:00

Monday 29th of July 2019 a not so hot day and over 30 children wanting to play in the children´s tournament. An over enthusiastic me, freely volunteered to organize the organize the children´s tournament for this years Congress.I got lucky as Klaus Petri also volunteered to help me with the… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 8

By Tony Claasen | News | 28.07.2019 10:24

finalday… clashes in final and small final. Both players, Stanislaw Frejlak 7d and Lukas Podpera 7d, arrived early for the small final. In the clash for third place Lukas is able to win against Stanislaw and so he is the best Amateur in this years Championship. Lukas Podpera vs. Stanislaw… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 7

By Tony Claasen | News | 27.07.2019 10:04

Today the semi-finals are played. The heat down by 20 degrees compared to thursday. The weekend and so the registration for the weekend has started.. coming in the building I meet a lot of new and old friends who arrived to play the weekend tournament. In the semifinals of the… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 6

By Tony Claasen | News | 26.07.2019 10:40

A little less hot at the start of the quarter-finals for the european championship 2019 After yesterday crashed several records in the history of temperature, today the heat is more bearable. Preparing the EGC-grouppicture After we made the group picture with all participants of the Congress we started at 10.30H… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 5

By Tony Claasen | News | 25.07.2019 9:42

On day 5 the temperature rose in the fight to become European Champion. So today another four finals will be played, as only the winners will stay in the race to become the European Champion of 2019.The winners of yesterday’s matches need another victory today to stay in contention for… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 4

By Tony Claasen | News | 24.07.2019 10:05

Today only 8 players play for a place in the top 16 First some impressions of day three at the championship: Ilya concentrating on the board, his opppent looking for a new drink Lukas in win mode, getting in his revenge against Tanguy Pavol Lisy 2p Artem Kachanovskyi playing against… Read more...