2010s

Events of the 2010s. Note that some estimations of dates of release and foundation aren't entirely certain.

Tournament Editions

• International: 22-31st Asian TV Cup, 15-24th LG Cup, 8-12th Chunlan Cup, 1-4th Bailing Cup

• Chinese: 23-32nd Mingren, 24-33rd Tianyuan

• Japanese: 34-43rd Kisei, 65-74th Honinbo, 48-57th Meijin, 58-67th Oza, 36-45th Tengen, 35-44th Gosei, 48-57th Judan, 57-66th NHK Cup

• Korean: 53-59th Kuksu (disc.), 38-43rd Myeongin (disc. to 2021), 11-15th Women's Myeongin (disc.), 15-24th GS Caltex Cup, 15-19th Chunwon (disc.), 6-10th Korean Prices Information Cup (disc.), 5-8th Siptan (disc.), 1-2nd Crown Haitai Cup

• American: 50-59th US Open

• European: 54-63rd European Championship, 45-53rd British Championship

Sensei's Library

• 2010: 20,000 articles reached

• 2012: 21,000

• 2016: 22,000

International

• 2010: Go is played at the Asian Games.

• 2011: Go is played at the first SportAccord World Mind Games. The games are held until 2014.
• 2011: The Huang Longshi Shuang Deng Cup international women's tournament is founded. It was possibly discontinued in 2019.
• 2011: Park Junghwan wins the final Fujitsu Cup, his first international singles title. The tournament had run since 1988.

• 2012: The Bailing Cup is founded.

• 2013: Go is played at the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.
• 2013: Fan Tingyu wins the Ing Cup and becomes the youngest ever nine dan professional at sixteen years old.

• 2014: The Globis Cup international youth tournament is founded.
• 2014: Gu Li and Lee Sedol play a jubango.
• 2014: Choi Jung wins the Bingsheng Cup, her first international title.

• 2015: Park Junghwan wins the LG Cup, the only time it was won by a Korean between 2008 (Lee Sedol) and 2020 (Shin Jinseo).

• 2016: Tang Weixing wins the Ing Cup.
• 2016: Shin Jinseo wins the Samsung Cup, his first major title.

• 2018: The Senko Cup and Wu Qingyuan Cup international women's tournaments are founded.

China

• 2010: Gu Li loses the Mingren, which he had held since 2004.

• 2015: Ke Jie wins the Bailing Cup, his first international singles tournament.

• 2016: Mi Yuting wins the Quzhou-Lanke Cup, the most prestigious Chinese tournament. Nick Sibicky declares 2016 the year of Mi Yuting and reviews four of his games.

• 2017: Chen Yaoye loses the Tianyuan, which he had held since 2009 in the longest ever run.

Japan

• 2010: Xie Yimin wins her first Women's Kisei. She wins it most of the decade.

• 2011: Iyama Yuta wins his first Tengen. He wins it almost every year of the decade.
• 2011: Iyama Yuta wins his first Judan. He wins it half the years of the decade.

• 2012: Iyama Yuta wins his first Honinbo. He holds the title into the 2020s in the longest ever streak.
• 2012: Iyama Yuta wins his first Oza. He wins it most of the decade.
• 2012: Iyama Yuta wins his first Gosei. He holds it until 2018.

• 2013: Iyama Yuta wins his first Kisei. He holds it until 2021.
• 2013: Iyama Yuta regains the Meijin. He wins it most of the decade.

• 2014: Fujisawa Rina wins her first Women's Honinbo. She wins it twice more in the decade.
• 2014: Go Seigen passes away at a hundred years old.

• 2016: Iyama Yuta becomes the first to simultaneously hold all seven big Japanese titles.
• 2016: Xie Yimin wins the Women's Meijin for a record eighth time. She also wins the Women's Kido Prize for a ninth time, making another record.

• 2017: Fujisawa Rina wins her first Women's Meijin. She holds it into the 2020s.
• 2017: Xie Yimin wins the Women's Kisei for the seventh time and the Women's Honinbo for the eighth time, both records.
• 2017: Sugiuchi Masao, the oldest ever active professional, passes away at 97 years old.

• 2019: Nakamura Sumire qualifies with the Nihon Ki-in as the youngest ever Japanese professional at that time.

Korea

• 2010: Rui Naiwei breaks her record for the most total and consecutive wins of the Women's Myeongin, bringing them to nine and six respectively. She had held these records since 2002, almost the inception of the tournament.

• 2011: Rui Naiwei breaks her Women's Myeongin record for the final time, with ten total wins and seven consecutive.

• 2012: Choi Jung wins the Women's Myeongin, her first title.

• 2014-16: Korean professional Go collapses as almost all big domestic Korean titles are discontinued: the Kuksu (est. 1956), Myeongin (est. 1968), Women's Myeongin (est. 2000), Chunwon (est. 1996), Siptan (est. 2005) and Korean Prices Information Cup (est. 2005). The Myeongin is revived in 2021.

• 2018: The Crown Haitai Cup is founded.
• 2018: Shin Jinseo wins the GS Caltex Cup, which he holds through 2022 in the longest ever streak.

America

• 2010: Myungwan Kim loses the US Open, ending his three year streak, the longest since 1975.

• 2012: The AGA professional system is founded. Andy Liu and Gansheng Shi qualify as the first AGA professionals. Liu is the first USA professional and Shi the first Canadian.

• 2015: The US Go Congress is held in Minnesota for the first time.

• 2017: The film The Surrounding Game is published, a documentary about aspiring American professionals.

• 2018: The US Go Congress is held in Virginia for the first time.
• 2018: The California State Go Championship is founded.

• 2019: The US Go Congress is held in Wisconsin for the first time.

Europe

• 2010: The European Go Congress is held in Finland for the first time.

• 2011: Matthew Macfadyen wins the British Championship for his 25th and final time since 1978.

• 2012: Mariya Zakharchenko qualifies with the Korean Baduk Association as the first Ukrainian professional.

• 2013: Fan Hui wins the European Go Championship for the first of three consecutive times.
• 2013: Lukas Krämer wins the German Go Championship. He holds it until 2016 in the longest ever streak.

• 2014: The EGF professional system is founded. Ali Jabarin and Pavol Lisy qualify as the first EGF professionals. Jabarin is the first Israeli professional and Lisy is the first Slovakian.

• 2015: Mateusz Surma qualifies with the EGF as the first Polish professional.

• 2016: Antii Törmänen qualifies with the Nihon Ki-in as the first Finnish professional.

• 2018: The current London Go Centre opens.

• 2019: Tanguy Le Calvé qualifies with the EGF as the first French professional.
• 2019: The European Go Cultural Centre closes. It had operated since 1992.

Online

• 2010: GoGameGuru is founded. It runs until 2018.
• 2010: Life in 19x19 is founded, replacing GoDiscussions.com.

• 2011: The KGS Clans system ends. It had run since 2005.
• 2011: The Yunguseng Dojang is founded.

• 2012: 101Weiqi, Waltheri and Twitch's Go category are founded.

• 2013: OGS merges with NovaGS to form the modern server.

• 2015: GoKibitz and Go Ratings are founded.

• 2016: The Go Teaching Ladder closes. It had run since 1994.

• 2017: William M. Shubert donates KGS to the American Go Foundation.
• 2017: The Open Study Room is founded.
• 2017: AlphaGo Teach is released.

• 2018: Tsumego Hero is founded.

• 2019: Go Magic is founded.

Youtube

• 2010: dwyrin posts his first Go video.

• 2012: Nick Sibicky posts his first Go video.

• 2015: Noah Doss starts a series of 17 video reviews of Cho Chikun games, which lasts until 2017.

• 2017: Yoonyoung Kim posts her first Go video.
• 2017: Redmond's Reviews starts. It runs until 2021.

Software and AI

• 2010: GnuGo ends development.

• 2015: AlphaGo wins a match against Fan Hui.

• 2016: AlphaGo wins a match against Lee Sedol. It then defeats sixty professionals online in the "Master series".

• 2016: DeepZenGo is released. It loses a match to Cho Chikun in the same year. It is retired in 2018.
• 2016: FineArt is released.

• 2017: AlphaGo wins a match against Ke Jie.
• 2017: Sabaki and Leela Zero are released.

• 2018: Elf OpenGo and Golaxy are released.

• 2019: Lee Sedol retires with a match against Korean bot Handol.
• 2019: KataGo is released.