European Professional Go Championship

1st European Professional Go Championship was the first professional tournament in Europe, held at Saint-Petersburg in 2016.

Crosstable

Players	Ali	Hui	Ilya	Mateusz	Sasha	score
Ali	X	0:1	0:1	1:0	1:0	2
Hui	1:0	X	1:0	1:0	1:0	4
Ilya	1:0	0:1	X	0:1	1:0	2
Mateusz	0:1	0:1	1:0	X	1:0	2
Sasha	0:1	0:1	0:1	0:1	X	0

Additional games:

Players	Result
Mateusz : Ali	1:0
Mateusz : Ilya	1:0

• Organizers: EuropeanGoFederation and RussianGoFederation
• Dates: February, 13-14, 2016. 
• Venue: Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Park Inn Radisson Pribaltijskaya
• Participants: European professional Go players (professional status and passport of EGF member are necessary). 
• Prizes: 1st – 1000 Euro, 2nd – 800 Euro, 3rd - 600 Euro, 4th – 500 Euro, 5th – 300 Euro
• 1-3 places will qualify as European representatives for Ing Cup 2016 (2 players) and Chunlan cup (1 player)

• System of the tournament:
  • Round Robin system, 4 rounds
  • Time limit: 50 min + Canadian boyomi 10 min/20 moves
  • Chinese rules, komi 7.5
  • Tiebreaks: SODOS, quickplay additional games

(additional games conditions: 45 min main time, SuddenDeath)

• Schedule

13.02.2016 10-30 – the opening ceremony 11-00 – 1st round 14-30 – 2nd round 17-30 – 3rd round

14.02.2016 10-00 – 4th round 13-30 – 5th round 16-30 – additional games (if necessary)

• Participants, who accepted the invitation and decided to take part:

• Fan Hui
• Mateusz Surma
• Ilya Shikshin
• Ali Jabarin
• Alexander Dinerchtein

• Commentators:
• Zhao Baolong 2p
• Lee Hajin 3p

Hajin commented the games of the last round on Youtube channel of the RussianGoFederation: http://www.youtube.com/c/GofederationRu