International Vienna Tournament 2017

By Laura Avram | International | 19.06.2017 16:08

The Vienna International Tournament took place on the 17th and 18th of June in the city’s outskirts at one of Vienna’s schools for tourism. Do you think that a beautiful Saturday would be enough to persuade the bravest of go players to go to the lake or next to the… Read more...

4th European Pro Qualification 2017, Vienna

By Laura Avram | Articles | 16.06.2017 16:19

This year’s tournament that will end a European go player’s amateur career began this week in Vienna, Austria. 16 players took part in this first stage of the tournament, called the European Pro qualification 2017. The first 3 rounds have been played on the 15th and 16th June in a… Read more...

Kido Cup 2017 Top 8 Games played at board one and two

By Tony Claasen | News | 13.06.2017 18:58

14 games of eurpoean topplayers to review. Games played at board 1 and 2 at the Kido Cup of 2017: Top 8 Partie 1: KidoCup2017 Alexandr Dinerstein-Mateusz Surma Partie 2 :KidoCup2017 Alexandr Dinerstein-Pavol LisyPartie 3: KidoCup2017 Artem Kachanovskyi-Alexandr DinersteinPartie 4: KidoCup2017 Artem Kachanowskyi-Ilja ShikshinPartie 5: KidoCup2017 Dominik Boviz-Alexsandr DinersteinPartie 6:… Read more...

Kido Cup 2017

By Tony Claasen | News | 12.06.2017 23:53

This year we had again a Top 8 Round-Robin-Tournament, main-tournament, rengo-tournament and permanent lightning tournament. Many side events like a poker-tournament and many simultenous games and lectures. Kido Cup 2017 As with every year, preparation for the tournament seems easy until the final day before participants arrive.. Preparing all the… Read more...

38th WAGC in Guiyang, China

By Viktor Lin | International | 12.06.2017 12:58

The 38th World Amateur Go Championship, held at Sheraton Hotel in Guiyang, China from 2 to 9 June, concluded with the flawless victory of the Chinese representative Bai Baoxiang 8d. This year, the competition for the runner-up places was extremely close. No one scored 7 victories, so the SOS tiebreaker… Read more...

Amsterdam Go tournament

By Marika Dubiel | Articles | 02.06.2017 23:36

The Amsterdam International Go Tournament took place on the long sunny weekend of 25-28th May. The main event, which was happening this year for the 60th time, attracted 83 players from 18 countries, including the United States. In this article, Marika Dubiel (2d, the Netherlands) shares a go diary, with… Read more...

First Croatian Go Week, May 8-14, 2017, with Catalin Taranu, 5p

By Damir Medak | News | 21.05.2017 11:21

Croatian Go Association (HIGOU) is performing a go project in several schools in different cities of Croatia. The project name is “Go – the game that teaches us to think”. The partners are two primary schools (Zagreb and Lipovljani), two secondary schools (Zagreb and Kutina), one special education center (Velika… Read more...

A new perspective on the star point and the implications thereof

By Viktor Lin | Reviews | 20.05.2017 17:57

Ever since AlphaGo’s reemergence as Master (P), the unique ideas the AI presented keep recurring in pro games. Some of those ideas have been further polished. The 3-3 invasion is one such example. Ever since AlphaGo’s reemergence as Master (P), the unique ideas the AI presented keep recurring in pro… Read more...

What a set of go rules from a national championship in Europe used to look like 31 years ago

By Laura Avram | Articles | 08.05.2017 13:17

Have you ever wondered what go tournaments were like in Europe 20, 30 or maybe even 50 years ago? To offer a glimpse of this, last month I translated the impressions which a player had after attending the first National Romanian Go Championship, which took place in 1986 in Cluj-Napoca.… Read more...

3rd European Go Grand Slam Tournament and 8th China Cup Berlin Part 2

By Tony Claasen | News | 07.05.2017 16:07

As a scribe I spent most of my time with the players of the Grand Slam Tournament. As told in part one, my first game as scribe was the game between the two old timers Catalin Taranu and Alexandre Dinerchtein, a game which Alexandre won. Because of this result Catalin… Read more...