German Go Championship

This page refers to the normal championship for individuals; there are also German Champions of Women's Go, Pair Go, Youth Go, Lightning Go and Team Go.

The German Go Championship is a yearly event consisting of a preliminary round and a final round. In the preliminary round, a 6-round swiss system tournament, any German citizen or person who has been resident in Germany for at least 5 years and who is of at least 3 dan strength, may participate. The best 6 of the preliminary round, as well as last year's champion and runner-up, then meet for the final round of 8, which is played as a round-robin. However, 2016 the best 7 of the preliminary round passed on. All 28 games of the 2016 final round can be found on KGS (User: dgob1 to dgob4. Date: 2016-09-30 to 2016-10-03). The same for 2017 (Date: 2017-09-30 to 2017-10-03). Guo Juan commented some (User: guojuan. However, audio).