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...

European Championship 2019 in Brussels, day 3

By Tony Claasen | News | 23.07.2019 10:17

Today only 24 players are left in the fight to become European champion. The four games that were broadcast on day 2 are below: Alexandr Dinerchtein vs. Lukas Krämer EC2019-r2-b1-2019-07-22.sgf Download Sgf-File Mateusz Surma vs. Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia EC2019-r2-b2-2019-07-22.sgf Download Sgf-File Artem Kachanovskyi vs. Lukas Podpera EC2019-r2-b3-2019-07-22.sgf Download Sgf-File Nikolai Mitic… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussel, day 2

By Tony Claasen | News | 22.07.2019 10:49

It is getting hotter in Brussels and not just because of the excitement in the games! Some games played on day one: Ilya Shikshin vs. Antoine Fenech EC2019-r1-b1-2019-07-21.sgf Download Sgf-File Pavol Lisy vs. Matias Pankoke EC2019-r1-b3-2019-07-21.sgf Download Sgf-File Mateusz Surma vs. Elian Grigoriu EC2019-r1-b2-2019-07-21.sgf Download Sgf-File Artem Kachanovskyi vs. Johannes… Read more...

European Championship 2019 in Brussel, day 1

By Tony Claasen | News | 21.07.2019 16:35

We have started the European Championship in Brussels today with 32 players fighting for the title of european champion. The previous 2 days were for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship and the opening ceremony of the EGC, now the EC has started. The first 4 boards will be broadcast… Read more...

Pandanet Go European Team Championship

By Tony Claasen | News | 21.07.2019 15:26

France, Romania, Russia and Ukraine played the finals of this yea’rs Pandanet Team Tournament Pandanet Go European Team Championship finals in Brussels. Manneken Pis Being the scribe is always exiting.This time I was scribe for the France vs. Ukraine match on board one where Artem Kachanovskyi 2p from the Ukraine… Read more...

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...