Europe wins the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 14.07.2019 19:00

Review of the inaugural Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship 2019 This year for the first time Europe and America had their first official professional match. The full name of the event was the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship, and you can find all the details on the official website. For… Read more...

European pros win the first match in the Chinese C League 2019

By Artem Kachanovskyi | European Pros | 04.07.2019 21:25

A review of the Chinese C League 2019 Intro The Chinese C League 2019 was held in Quzhou, China from the 13th – 23rd June. It was the third time that the European team to participate in this competition. You can read about the two previous years in the following articles:  C… Read more...

11th KidoCup 2019

By Tony Claasen | News | 12.06.2019 18:28

TOP 8, Main tournament and Rengo tournament As always the Tournament started for me on Friday afternoon, when we started to transform the school into a playingsite for the Kido Cup. As always we got help from a large group of players from Hamburg, and some early arrivals from outside… Read more...

IMSA World Masters Championship 2019: interview with the European team

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 24.05.2019 21:56

Interview with the European team, who just participated in the IMSA World Masters Championship 2019 The IMSA World Masters Championship 2019 was held in Hengshui, China on 12–19 May. Here is a promotional video for the event in Hengshui: There were 6 teams participating: China South Korea Japan Chinese Taipei… Read more...

Interview with Tanguy Le Calvé, the 7th European Pro

By Artem Kachanovskyi | Interviews | 20.05.2019 20:48

Interview with Tanguy Le Calvé, who has just become the 7th European Professional player The 5th European Pro Qualification was held in Strasbourg (France) on May 16-19, 2019. As always, it was an intense tournament. Many of the Go players and fans all around the world followed this spectacular event. In my opinion,… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Final

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 19:45

Tanguy Le Calvé 6d from France will play against Lukáš Podpera 7d from Czechia to decide who will be the next EGF Pro. After some big fights in the semi-finals, Tanguy Le Calvé 6d of France will play against Lukáš Podpera 7d of Czechia to decide who will become the… Read more...

11th Strasbourg international go tournament

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 17:28

The 11th Strasbourg international go tournamentan event during the weekend next to the pro qualification 2019. Another big success for the Strasbourg tournament. The EGF pro qualification gave us a great opportunity to gather the best European players in Strasbourg this year. All games and results of the 5th EGF… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Quarter- and Semi-finals

By Tony Claasen | News | 18.05.2019 9:57

We have now entered the stage of single KO with only eight players left. We have now entered the stage of single KO with only eight players left. For the results look here. This morning, because of the weekend tournament, play in the Pro Qualification has been moved to another… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Round 2 and 3

By Tony Claasen | News | 17.05.2019 11:03

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional. A peaceful morning, all 16 players arrived in time for the start of the second round. Jonas Welticke, Sinan Djepov, Oscar Vázquez and Schayan Hamrah lost both their first round and second round and… Read more...

5th Pro qualification 2019 – Round 1

By Tony Claasen | News | 16.05.2019 16:24

16 Players play a double KO Tournament in Strasbourg to decide the next European EGF Professional The first round started with a small upset as the players Anton Chernykh and Vjacheslav Kajmin from Russia missed a connecting flight and sadly lost their first round games by default because of this.… Read more...