European Professional Go Championship
Keywords: Tournament
The European Professional Go Championship is an EGF tournament
| Year | Champion | Location | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Surma, M | Hamburg, DE | 6 |
| 2023 | Surma, M | OGS | 8 |
| 2020 | Shikshin, I | OGS | 8 |
| 2019 | Kachanovskyi,A | Jena, DE | 5 |
| 2018 | Lisy, P | Vatra Dornei, RO | 7 |
| 2017 | Shikshin, I | St Petersburg, RU | 6 |
| 2016 | Fan, H | St Petersburg, RU | 5 |
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:
- 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
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