Meeting Cho Hye-yeon 9p in Seoul

By Tony Claasen | Interviews | 12.07.2018 16:02

An interview with one of the strongest professional female go players of today. Cho Hye-yeon is one of only five Females holding the 9p rank. My first meeting with Cho Hye-yeon took place last year online, when she contacted me for a way to get from Frankfurt Airport to Oberhof.… Read more...

Studying Baduk, Go, Weiqi in BIBA

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.07.2018 15:56

BIBA (Blackie’s International Baduk Academy) where you can study both online and offline (at the school in Seoul) After my invitation from Kim Seung-jun (Blackie) 9p and Kőszegi Diána 1p to play in the Samsung Cup preliminary of the World-Group. I decided to visit Seoul for 2 weeks, not just… Read more...

Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk 2018 – Preliminary

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 12.07.2018 15:27

In Seoul the preliminaries of several groups was played in the building of the KBA. Through an invitation from my teachers I was able to start in the preliminary of the World-Group for the Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk 2018) (better known by the shortened form as… Read more...

Youngsam Kim undefeated in Amstelveen

By Kim Ouweleen | News | 28.06.2018 15:46

The 47th Amsterdam International Go Tournament took place from 10-13 May in the European Go Cultural Centre. A total of 94 players competed. Korean-born Youngsam Kim 8 dan, who lives in Jena (DE), won all 7 games and took first place. Second place was for Tanguy Le Calvé 6 dan… Read more...

Zagreb Open – European Grand Prix Bonus C

By Damir Medak | Articles | 09.06.2018 18:48

This year, the Croatian Open Go Championship was a Level C Bonus tournament in the European Grand Prix. Altogether, 46 players from nine different countries played in the tournament. This was an increase of 50% compared to the previous edition in 2017. It was an excellent opportunity for the top… Read more...

Second Croatian Go Week, May 21-27, 2018, with Catalin Taranu, 5p

By Damir Medak | Articles | 09.06.2018 18:22

For the second year, the Croatian Go Alliance (HIGOU) is performing a go project in several schools in different cities of Croatia. This year, the project name is “Go – the game with(out) boundaries”. The partners are one kindergarten, four primary schools (Jastrebarsko, Lipovljani, Velika Gorica and Zagreb), two secondary… Read more...

Gian-Carlo Pascutto – The man behind LeelaZero

By egf_admin | Interviews | 24.05.2018 21:44

An interview with Gian-Carlo Pascutto the author of LeelaZero, the popular professional level program. Gian-Carlo Pascutto (GCP), the author of LeelaZero, kindly agreed to give us (EGN) an interview. EGN: Gian-Carlo, I suppose that most go players have heard of you due to your LeelaZero software, but before that you… Read more...

10th Kido Cup 2018

By Tony Claasen | Articles | 24.05.2018 11:25

This year the anniversary of the 10th Kido Cup in Hamburg was celebrated with the visit of star player Lee Chang-ho 9p from Korea. As with every year, for me the start of the Kido Cup comes a few days earlier, when the guests from all over Europe start to… Read more...

4th GrandSlam Yike Cup

By Tony Claasen | News | 02.05.2018 11:33

The winner of this year’s edition is Ilya Shikshin 2p As usual for me, everything began one day before the start of the tournament.Packing the necessary materials (the laptops, and the cables, and so on) so that we would be able to transmit all the games via KGS, Youtube and… Read more...

The 11th Korean Ambassador‘s Cup

By Aleš Cieplý | News | 01.05.2018 13:19

The Prague International Go Tournament belongs among the top three go events in Czechia. It has already reached its 47th edition and this is the 11th time it was played as the Korean Ambassador´s Cup. It is now a tradition that the event is also a qualification for the annual… Read more...