European Go Congress

The European Go Congress is a two week event held in the summer. The congress is held in a different country each year, generally spanning the last week of July and the first week of August.

During the congress, the European Championship is played. In addition, the final stage of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship is played over the board.

The European Go Congress has normally been the largest go event outside Asia. Recent congresses have generally attracted over 500 participants, many of whom stay the full two weeks.

Future congress locations

No	Year	City	Country	Official Website
66.	2024	Toulouse	France	https://egc2024.org/en/index.html
67.	2025	Warsaw	Poland	https://egc2025.pl

Past congress locations

The European Go Congress has been held 64 times as of 2023: every year from 1957 to 2023 inclusive, with the exception of 2020 and 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

See Wikipedia article for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Go_Championship

No	Year	City	Country	Participants[1]	European Champion	Winner Open	Website / report[2]	Results[3]
65.	2023	Leipzig	Germany	nnn	Andrii Kravets	unknown	https://www.egc2023.de/	Ch? , Main
64.	2022	Vatra Dornei	Romania	307	Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia	Won-Jin Choi	https://egc2022.ro/european-championship/	Ch , Main
63.	2019	Brussels	Belgium	668	Ilya Shikshin	Tengyu Sun	egc2019.eu (different content now) [9]
62.	2018	Pisa	Italy	901	Pavol Lisy	Yoon Nam-gi?	http://egc2018.it/	@
61.	2017	Oberhof	Germany	821	Ilja Shikshin	Zhang Tao	http://egc2017.eu/	@
60.	2016	St. Petersburg	Russia	601	Ilja Shikshin	Kim Youngsam	egc2016.ru (no longer registered)[9]
59.	2015	Liberec	Czechia	762	Fan Hui	Wang Zheming	http://egc2015.cz/	@
58.	2014	Sibiu	Romania	458	Fan Hui	Tong Yulin	http://egc2014.com/ [9]	@
57.	2013	Olsztyn	Poland	594	Fan Hui			@
56.	2012	Bonn	Germany	608	Jan Simara	Song Jun Hyup?	http://egc2012.eu/ [9]	@
55.	2011	Bordeaux	France	766	Ilja Shikshin	Kim Youngsam	http://egc2011.eu/ [9]	@
54.	2010	Tampere	Finland	459	Ilja Shikshin		http://egc2010.fi/ [9]	@
53.	2009	Groningen	Netherlands	599	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Kim Eunkuk?	http://egc2009.nl/ [9]	@
52.	2008	Leksand	Sweden	718	Catalin Taranu	Park Jong-wook?		@
51.	2007	Villach	Austria	573	Ilja Shikshin	Hong Seok-ui	egc2007.goverband.at/ [9]	@
50.	2006	Frascati (Rome)	Italy	292	Svetlana Shikshina	Park Chi-seon?		@
49.	2005	Prague	Czechia	712	Alexandre Dinerchtein			@
48.	2004	Tuchola	Poland	558	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Young Kwang-sung?		@
47.	2003	St. Petersburg	Russia	310	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Hong Seul-ki		@
46.	2002	Zagreb	Croatia	304	Alexandre Dinerchtein			@
45.	2001	Dublin	Ireland	327	Andrei Kulkov			@
44.	2000	Strausberg (Berlin)	Germany	501	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Lee Hyuk		@
43.	1999	Podbanske	Slovakia	343	Alexandre Dinerchtein			@
42.	1998	Mamaia	Romania	359	Robert Mateescu	Lee Hyuk		@
41.	1997	Marseilles	France	590	Guo Juan	Lee Hyuk		@
40.	1996	Abano Terme	Italy	462	Guo Juan			@
39.	1995	Tuchola	Poland	380	Guo Juan			@
38.	1994	Maastricht	Netherlands	333	Guo Juan			@
37.	1993	Prague	Czechia	507	Rob van Zeijst			@
36.	1992	Canterbury	United Kingdom	278	Alexei Lazarev	Takashi Matsutomo?		@
35.	1991	Namur	Belgium	261	Alexei Lazarev	Shu-tai Zhang		@
34.	1990	Vienna	Austria	250	Rob van Zeijst			@
33.	1989	Nis	Yugoslavia	233	Matthew Macfadyen	Toshiyuki Sogabe?		@
32.	1988	Hamburg	West Germany	376	Tibor Pocsai			@
31.	1987	Grenoble	France	337	Matthew Macfadyen			@
30.	1986	Budapest	Hungary	365	Ronald Schlemper			@
29.	1985	Terschelling	Netherlands	283	Ronald Schlemper			@
28.	1984	Porrentruy	Switzerland	145	Matthew Macfadyen	Hong Tay You?	report (PDF)	@ 30[4]
27.	1983	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	?	Janusz Kraszek			@ 30[4]
26.	1982	Copenhagen	Denmark	?	Ronald Schlemper			@ 16[5]
25.	1981	Linz	Austria	?	Rob van Zeijst			@ 24[5]
24.	1980	Mali Losinj	Yugoslavia	?	Matthew Macfadyen			@ 24[5]
23.	1979	Königswinter	West Germany	?	Jürgen Mattern			@ 20[5]
22.	1978	Paris	France	?	Helmut Hasibeder			@ 10[5]
21.	1977	Rijswijk	Netherlands	~150	Wolfgang Isele			@ 11[5]
20.	1976	Cambridge	United Kingdom	~80	Patrick Merissert			@ 12[5]
19.	1975	Krems	Austria	~130	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
18.	1974	Zagreb	Yugoslavia	?	Manfred Wimmer			@[6]
17.	1973	Sprendlingen	West Germany	~155	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
16.	1972	Enschede	Netherlands	~120	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
15.	1971	Bristol	United Kingdom	~41	Zoran Mutabzija			@[5]
14.	1970	Vienna	Austria	~63	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
13.	1969	Ljubljana	Yugoslavia	~120	Manfred Wimmer			@[6]
12.	1968	West Berlin	West Germany	~67	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
11.	1967	Staufen	West Germany	~74	Zoran Mutabzija			@[6]
10.	1966	London	United Kingdom	~55	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
9.	1965	Mnisek Pod Brdy	Czechoslovakia	~100	Jürgen Mattern			@[6]
8.	1964	Scheveningen	Netherlands	>100	Wichard von Alvensleben			@[6]
7.	1963	Barsinghausen	West Germany	~65	Wichard von Alvensleben			@[6]
6.	1962	Garmisch Partenkirchen	West Germany	?	Wichard von Alvensleben			@[6]
5.	1961	Baden bei Wien	Austria	>100	Wichard von Alvensleben			@[6]
4.	1960	Oud Poelgeest	Netherlands	?	Günter Ciessow			@[6]
3.	1959	Oberwarmsteinach	West Germany	~90?	Fritz Dueball		[7]	@[6]
2.	1958	Altenmark Wienerwald	Austria	?	Fritz Dueball			@[6]
1.	1957	Cuxhaven	West Germany	?	Fritz Dueball			@[6]

See also: the wiki EGC organisers' handbook

[1] Participants who played at least one round of the main tournament; there are usually numerous other tournaments (weekend, pairs, rengo, ...). If prefixed with ~, the number of participants as stated in a report not specifying in what they competed.

[2] See https://www.eurogofed.org/results/congress.htm for reports of all congresses since 1957.

[3] Usually in text format. If the specific site does not provide results, try also results on https://www.eurogofed.org/results/congress.htm.

[4] Only this many top places in the main tournament recorded.^[8]

[5] Only this many top places, in the Championship group, recorded^[8].

[6] Top few players in one or more separate tournament groups^[8].

[7] See also https://www.eurogofed.org/history/1959-08-04-Stadtzeitung-1.jpg for an image of a report in German from the Bayreuth Stadtzeitung

[8] The first congress to have a single McMahon system main tournament appears to have been 1983; from 1985 onwards, the results include all players in the main tournament.

[9] The congress website appears largely or completely usurped, lost or dysfunctional – consult ^[2] instead.

Most successful players

The following table shows players who have been European Champions three or more times. Within a given number of wins, the most recent win is ranked highest. Click on a year to go to its details.

The following table shows players who have won the European Open title two or more times. Within a given number of wins, the most recent win is ranked highest. Click on a year to go to its details.