Expanding New Horizons on EGF Twitch

By Xiaocheng-Stephen Hu | News | 14.05.2019 17:13

Greetings everyone! Today, we are excited to make a few announcements on the official EGF Twitch channel. As you may have seen or heard before, we have been producing live game commentaries from major European Go events since October 2018. Today, as we reach 5 million views and 5.8k followers,… Read more...

Yike Cup, The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament

By Artem Kachanovskyi | News | 04.05.2019 21:00

The 5th European Go Grand Slam Tournament, also called Yike Cup, was held 25th – 28th April in Berlin, Germany. For those who are not familiar with the Grand Slam, let me explain in a few words what it is. Grand Slam is the most prestigious tournament in Europe with… Read more...

Europe 2-0 up in Transatlantic Showdown

By Kim Ouweleen | International | 15.04.2019 18:06

Mateusz Surma 2p has won the first two games of the Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship, defeating Andy Liu 1p and Calvin Sun 1p of the United States. Surma remains the person to beat and will face Gansheng Shi 1p next, on Sunday 21st of April, 20:00 Central European Time.… Read more...

World Women Team Conquest

By egf_admin | Interviews | 11.04.2019 11:09

An interview with Camille Lévêque on the new international initiative called World Women Team Conquest. On Sunday the 7th of April, a new initiative in the world of go began. We talk with Camille Lévêque on the subject of the World Women Team Conquest.Q) This Sunday the first match in the… Read more...

Fan Hui 2p guest of honour during Amsterdam Go Tournament

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 10.04.2019 16:16

Great news for the participants of the 48th Amsterdam International Go Tournament (AIGT)! DeepMind ambassador Fan Hui 2p will be present at the event and will present a lecture about AlphaGo. The AIGT is an EGF Bonus Point Tournament (level B) and will take place from 30th of May until… Read more...

Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship: the first round is coming soon!

By Artem Kachanovskyi | International | 02.04.2019 9:13

Announcement of the 2019 Transatlantic Professional Go Team Championship and the two players to play in the first round The European Go Federation (EGF) and the American Go Association (AGA) started their professional systems just two years apart. The AGA was the earliest, certifying their first two pros in 2012:… Read more...

Turkish Play-Offs & Turkish Women’s Go Championship 2019

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 25.03.2019 0:16

Turkey is one of the most active go countries in Europe, with a large base of players and enthusiastic organisers. In the weekend of 2-3 February both the Turkish Play-Off Tournament and the Turkish Women’s Go Championship took place in İstanbul. Tuğkan Eren (2 dan) and Birand Adal (2 dan)… Read more...

The 2nd Kedros Cup

By Pavol Lisy | Articles | 20.03.2019 21:42

The Grandslam Qualification, held on the end of previous week in Bratislava, was followed by the 2nd Kedros Cup week-end tournament on the 16th to 17th March. The tournament attracted quite a big number of participants – 70 in total, from 15 countries. The event therefore became the biggest one… Read more...

Grand Slam Qualification

By Pavol Lisy | Articles | 20.03.2019 21:38

At the end of last week, many strong players from all across Europe came to Bratislava, Slovakia to attend two big competitions. The first one, the Grand Slam Qualification, was held on Thursday and Friday (the 14th to 15th March).      At the end of last week, many strong… Read more...

The Future of Go in the West

By Daniel Jones | Articles | 17.03.2019 9:35

The ancient game of Go came to the West in the form of a description by Thomas Hyde in the latter parts of the 16th Century. Firstly, in the form of a letter and then a publication called, De Ludis Orientalibus. However, the game has taken a very long time… Read more...