European Go Championship
Encyclopedia
The European Go Championship or Congress (EGC) is the annual and main event of many organised by the European Go Federation
for players of the board game
Go. It consists of a 2-week open
competition, one round per day, making a total of 10 rounds with a champion ultimately emerging - the player with the most (or best) wins. The congress has taken place in a different European city each year, since the first contest in 1983. During these two weeks, the best go players in Europe fight for the title of European Champion. Entry in recent years has been from a low of 290 to a high of 718 players.
The 2011 (55th) championship take place between 23 July and 6 August in Talence
, Bordeaux
, France.
In 1961 the 5th European Go Championship was held in August in Baden
, where Japanese professional players Kensaku Segoe
and Utaro Hashimoto
gave exhibitions.
In 1976 European Go Congress was held in Cambridge with 150 European players vying for titles among five separate tournaments which varied the games played, and including a tournament at the game of 'Lightning Go,' where the game must be played far more rapidly than in a traditional match. The festivities were described by United Press International, reporting on the event, as a "two week orgy of go."
In 1977 the 21st championship was held in Rijswijk
in the Netherlands. Although not allowed to play in the competition, two Japanese professional players attended and provided instruction and engaged in simultaneous exhibition
s. Seminars were given in go theory, computer go and lightning go.
Two winners of the European Go Championship enjoyed previous success as juniors, in the various age groups (under-12, -16 and -18) of the European Youth Go Championship
. These are Alexandr Dinerchtein and Ilya Shikshin.
won against Catalin Taranu
in the 5th round.
, Alexandre Dinerchtein lost against the 2001 Champion Andrei Kulkov in the 6th round.
Svetlana Shikshina
won the title.
, Ilya Shikshin won the title, despite losing to Alexandre Dinerchtein in the 8th round.
, Ondrej Silt from the Czech Republic
beat Catalin Taranu
in Round 4.
In Round 5, Alexandre Dinerchtein won against the 2006 Champion Svetlana Shikshina.
Catalin Taranu beat the 2007 Champion Ilya Shikshin in Round 8.
The 5-dan
Go professional
Catalin Taranu became the second Romanian player to become European Go Champion.
, Rob van Zeijst, lost against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Round 9 saw victory by the 2008 Champion Catalin Taranu against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Alexandre Dinerchtein remained ahead on tiebreak to win the title, his seventh time as European go Champion.
, as a first act of the championship, Cornel Burzo from Romania
beat the reigning champion, the Russian professional Alexandre Dinerchtein. Catalin Taranu won against Rob Van Zeijst in the 3rd round. The fourth round featured a very long game between Taranu and Ilya Shikshin. These two players were undefeated since the beginning of this year's competition. Shikshin finally won the game, to continue his consecutive victories (6 winning rounds).
The young Artem Kachanovskyy from Ukraine
stopped the winning ascension of Shikshin at the seventh round. The next rounds were a fight for the title for these two players. Kachanovskyy led first by beating Csaba Mero
at the 8th round, and the 2009 European Youth Champion
, Ali Jabarin, in the 9th round, but he lost his final game against Kim JungHyeop, a Korean player. Shikshin won the title by beating Cristian Pop in the 8th round and Dinerchtein in the final round.
During this tournament, the two leaders won games against Korean players.
This is the second European title for Ilya Shikshin.
I" campus in Talence
, from July 23 to August 6.
The number of registered players is more then the 800 expected players, meaning already that European Go is healthy.
These amateur players are from all European countries, ranked from 30 kyu to 7 dan, professional players from Asia will also participate (e.g. Japan, China and South Korea). The French hosting organisation is the Fédération française de go (FFG)..
The pre-registration board shows the participation of previous champions and possible future title owner like
- Catalin Taranu
- Ilya Shikshin
- Svetlana Shikshina
- Alexandre Dinerchtein
- Artem Kachanovskyy
- Cristian Pop
This edition also accommodates the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship, a new competition where Romania
, Hungary
, Russia
and Ukraine
will try to obtain the first title.
As a side event, a professional competition will be held : some games of the China Weiqi League will be played.
Yumi Hotta
, Hikaru no Go
writer, will come for a conference during the event.
The EGC is reliant on generous international sponsorship. For the third consecutive year, Zhuyeqing Tea - the official sponsor of the Chinese national Go team - are the main sponsor of the Congress.
-Bad Godesberg
, from 21 July to 4 August 2012.
in Poland, on the south coast of the Baltic Sea
, is the host for the 2013 Congress.
, a former European Capital of Culture
.
From 1984, the Championship became open.
European Go Federation
The European Go Federation is a non-profit organization with the purpose of encouraging, regulating, co-ordinating, and disseminating the playing of the board game Go in Europe. The EGF was founded in 1957, the same year that the inaugural European Go Congress took place - in Cuxhaven, Germany...
for players of the board game
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
Go. It consists of a 2-week open
Open (sport)
An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to all people, regardless of their age, ability, gender, or other categorization. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, quizbowl, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess....
competition, one round per day, making a total of 10 rounds with a champion ultimately emerging - the player with the most (or best) wins. The congress has taken place in a different European city each year, since the first contest in 1983. During these two weeks, the best go players in Europe fight for the title of European Champion. Entry in recent years has been from a low of 290 to a high of 718 players.
The 2011 (55th) championship take place between 23 July and 6 August in Talence
Talence
Talence is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the south side...
, Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
, France.
History
The first European Go Championship was held in 1938. The first championship of the current annual series was held in 1957, in Cuxhaven, Germany. Germany has been quite dominant at the championships.In 1961 the 5th European Go Championship was held in August in Baden
Baden
Baden is a historical state on the east bank of the Rhine in the southwest of Germany, now the western part of the Baden-Württemberg of Germany....
, where Japanese professional players Kensaku Segoe
Kensaku Segoe
was a professional Go player. -Biography:...
and Utaro Hashimoto
Utaro Hashimoto
was a professional Go player.- Biography :Hashimoto became a pro in 1922 when he was 15. He would win the Honinbō 3 times before finally reaching 9p in 1954. He founded the Kansai Ki-in in 1950.- Titles and runner-ups:...
gave exhibitions.
In 1976 European Go Congress was held in Cambridge with 150 European players vying for titles among five separate tournaments which varied the games played, and including a tournament at the game of 'Lightning Go,' where the game must be played far more rapidly than in a traditional match. The festivities were described by United Press International, reporting on the event, as a "two week orgy of go."
In 1977 the 21st championship was held in Rijswijk
Rijswijk
Rijswijk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a suburb of The Hague and covers an area of 14.48 km² ....
in the Netherlands. Although not allowed to play in the competition, two Japanese professional players attended and provided instruction and engaged in simultaneous exhibition
Simultaneous exhibition
A simultaneous exhibition or simultaneous display is a board game exhibition in which one player plays multiple games at a time with a number of other players. Such an exhibition is often referred to simply as a "simul".In a regular simul, no chess clocks are used...
s. Seminars were given in go theory, computer go and lightning go.
Two winners of the European Go Championship enjoyed previous success as juniors, in the various age groups (under-12, -16 and -18) of the European Youth Go Championship
European Youth Go Championship
The European Youth Go Championship is a championship for young players of the board game of Go. It is held annually, and first started in Băile Felix, Romania in 1996...
. These are Alexandr Dinerchtein and Ilya Shikshin.
Czech Republic 2005
In Praha, Alexandre DinerchteinAlexandre Dinerchtein
Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon...
won against Catalin Taranu
Catalin Taranu
Cătălin Țăranu , born March 31, 1973 in Romania, is one of the very few professional players of the board game of Go from outside Asia.- Biography :...
in the 5th round.
Italy 2006
In FrascatiFrascati
Frascati is a town and comune in the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific...
, Alexandre Dinerchtein lost against the 2001 Champion Andrei Kulkov in the 6th round.
Svetlana Shikshina
Svetlana Shikshina
Svetlana Valerievna Shikshina is a professional Go player from Russia, one of only four western females to date to reach professional status. She achieved this in 2002, affiliated to the Hanguk Kiwon .- Biography :Svetlana Shikshina started playing go at the age of 10...
won the title.
Austria 2007
In VillachVillach
Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:...
, Ilya Shikshin won the title, despite losing to Alexandre Dinerchtein in the 8th round.
Sweden 2008
In LeksandLeksand
Leksand is a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,861 inhabitants in 2005.- Sport :Leksand is famous for the Leksands IF ice hockey team. Leksand is also home to the Leksands Baseball and Softball Club, one of the oldest and more successful baseball clubs...
, Ondrej Silt from the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
beat Catalin Taranu
Catalin Taranu
Cătălin Țăranu , born March 31, 1973 in Romania, is one of the very few professional players of the board game of Go from outside Asia.- Biography :...
in Round 4.
In Round 5, Alexandre Dinerchtein won against the 2006 Champion Svetlana Shikshina.
Catalin Taranu beat the 2007 Champion Ilya Shikshin in Round 8.
The 5-dan
Dan (rank)
The ranking system is a Japanese mark of level, which is used in modern fine arts and martial arts. Originally invented in a Go school in the Edo period, this system was applied to martial arts by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo and later introduced to other East Asia countries.In the modern...
Go professional
Go professional
A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go. The minimum standard to acquire a professional diploma through one of the major go organisations is very high. The competition is tremendous, and prize incentives for champion players are very large...
Catalin Taranu became the second Romanian player to become European Go Champion.
Netherlands 2009
In Groningen, the young 5-dan Thomas Debarre from France defeated Catalin Taranu in Round 4. In round 5, the 3-times European Champion from the NetherlandsNetherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
, Rob van Zeijst, lost against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Round 9 saw victory by the 2008 Champion Catalin Taranu against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Alexandre Dinerchtein remained ahead on tiebreak to win the title, his seventh time as European go Champion.
Finland 2010
In TampereTampere
Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in...
, as a first act of the championship, Cornel Burzo from Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
beat the reigning champion, the Russian professional Alexandre Dinerchtein. Catalin Taranu won against Rob Van Zeijst in the 3rd round. The fourth round featured a very long game between Taranu and Ilya Shikshin. These two players were undefeated since the beginning of this year's competition. Shikshin finally won the game, to continue his consecutive victories (6 winning rounds).
The young Artem Kachanovskyy from Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
stopped the winning ascension of Shikshin at the seventh round. The next rounds were a fight for the title for these two players. Kachanovskyy led first by beating Csaba Mero
Csaba Mérõ
Csaba Mérő is an amateur Go player.- Biography :Mérő began playing Go when he was 14. He is the son of Hungarian mathematician László Mérő. By 1996 he had already won the European Youth Go Championship and Hungarian Championship. After he finished secondary school he moved to Japan in 1999. He was...
at the 8th round, and the 2009 European Youth Champion
European Youth Go Championship
The European Youth Go Championship is a championship for young players of the board game of Go. It is held annually, and first started in Băile Felix, Romania in 1996...
, Ali Jabarin, in the 9th round, but he lost his final game against Kim JungHyeop, a Korean player. Shikshin won the title by beating Cristian Pop in the 8th round and Dinerchtein in the final round.
During this tournament, the two leaders won games against Korean players.
This is the second European title for Ilya Shikshin.
France 2011
The Championship will be held at the "University of BordeauxUniversity of Bordeaux
University of Bordeaux is an association of higher education institutions in and around Bordeaux, France. Its current incarnation was established 21 March 2007. The group is the largest system of higher education schools in southwestern France. It is part of the Academy of Bordeaux.There are seven...
I" campus in Talence
Talence
Talence is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is the third-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux, and is adjacent to it on the south side...
, from July 23 to August 6.
The number of registered players is more then the 800 expected players, meaning already that European Go is healthy.
These amateur players are from all European countries, ranked from 30 kyu to 7 dan, professional players from Asia will also participate (e.g. Japan, China and South Korea). The French hosting organisation is the Fédération française de go (FFG)..
The pre-registration board shows the participation of previous champions and possible future title owner like
- Catalin Taranu
Catalin Taranu
Cătălin Țăranu , born March 31, 1973 in Romania, is one of the very few professional players of the board game of Go from outside Asia.- Biography :...
- Ilya Shikshin
- Svetlana Shikshina
- Alexandre Dinerchtein
Alexandre Dinerchtein
Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon...
- Artem Kachanovskyy
- Cristian Pop
This edition also accommodates the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship, a new competition where Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
and Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
will try to obtain the first title.
As a side event, a professional competition will be held : some games of the China Weiqi League will be played.
Yumi Hotta
Yumi Hotta
is a Japanese manga artist, born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan in 1957.Hotta is best known as the author of the best-selling manga and anime series Hikaru no Go, about the game of go that is widely credited for the recent boom of the game in Japan. The idea behind Hikaru no Go began when Yumi Hotta...
, Hikaru no Go
Hikaru no Go
is a manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation. The production of the series' Go games was supervised by Go professional Yukari Umezawa...
writer, will come for a conference during the event.
Planned championships
European Go Congresses, at which the European Go Champion is always decided, are planned some 3 years in advance, to cater for up to 800 players. Each year, the hosting country's Go association plays a large part in the planning and organisation. Below are the confirmed locations.The EGC is reliant on generous international sponsorship. For the third consecutive year, Zhuyeqing Tea - the official sponsor of the Chinese national Go team - are the main sponsor of the Congress.
Germany 2012
The 2012 EGC will be held by the river Rhine, in the municipal hall of BonnBonn
Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....
-Bad Godesberg
Bad Godesberg
Bad Godesberg is a municipal district of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 till 1990 , the majority of foreign embassies to Germany were located in Bad Godesberg...
, from 21 July to 4 August 2012.
Poland 2013
GdyniaGdynia
Gdynia is a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland and an important seaport of Gdańsk Bay on the south coast of the Baltic Sea.Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together...
in Poland, on the south coast of the Baltic Sea
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a brackish mediterranean sea located in Northern Europe, from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 20°E to 26°E longitude. It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands. It drains into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, the Great Belt and...
, is the host for the 2013 Congress.
Romania 2014
The 2014 EGC is to be held in Romania in SibiuSibiu
Sibiu is a city in Transylvania, Romania with a population of 154,548. Located some 282 km north-west of Bucharest, the city straddles the Cibin River, a tributary of the river Olt...
, a former European Capital of Culture
European Capital of Culture
The European Capital of Culture is a city designated by theEuropean Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong European dimension....
.
European Champions by year
As recorded in the European Go Federation web-site:| Year | Winner | Second | Third | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 |  Germany Fritz Dueball |
Germany Cuxhaven |
||
| 1958 | Germany Fritz Dueball |
Lenz | John |  Austria AltenmarktAltenmarkt an der Triesting Altenmarkt an der Triesting is a town in the district of Baden in Lower Austria in Austria.... |
| 1959 | Germany Fritz Dueball |
Paech | Kramer | Germany Bayreuth |
| 1960 | Germany Günter Ciessow |
Austria Leonard Grebe |
Germany Fritz Dueball |
 Netherlands Leiden |
| 1961 | Germany Wichard von Alvensleben |
Austria Leonard Grebe |
Germany Fritz Dueball |
Austria Baden bei Wien Baden bei Wien -Points of interest:The town offers several parks and a picturesque surrounding, of which the most frequented is the Helenental valley. Not far from Baden, the valley is crossed by a widespread aqueduct of the Vienna waterworks... |
| 1962 | Germany Wichard von Alvensleben |
Germany Jurgen Dueball |
Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Germany Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria... |
| 1963 | Germany Wichard von Alvensleben |
Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
Germany Barsinghausen Barsinghausen Barsinghausen is a town in the district of Hanover, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated at the Deister chain of hills approx. 20 km west of Hanover... |
| 1964 | Germany Wichard von Alvensleben |
Germany Jurgen Mattern |
 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Eduard Ekart |
Netherlands Scheveningen |
| 1965 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
Germany Jurgen Dueball |
 Czechoslovakia Mnosek pod Brdy |
| 1966 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
 United Kingdom LondonLondon London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... |
| 1967 | Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zoran Mutabzija |
Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
Germany Staufen im Breisgau |
| 1968 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zoran Mutabzija |
Germany Jurgen Dueball |
Germany Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union... |
| 1969 | Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zoran Mutabzija |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Ljubljana Ljubljana Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants... |
| 1970 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
Austria Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... |
| 1971 | Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zoran Mutabzija |
Netherlands Henk de Vries |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
United Kingdom Bristol Bristol Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007... |
| 1972 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
United Kingdom John Diamond |
Netherlands Enschede Enschede Enschede , also known as Eanske in the local dialect of Twents, is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region... |
| 1973 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Germany Michael Katscher |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zoran Mutabzija |
Germany Sprendlingen Sprendlingen Sprendlingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Location :... |
| 1974 | Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
 Greece Michael Kitsos |
United Kingdom Tony Goddard |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Zagreb Zagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city... |
| 1975 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Austria Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer Manfred Wimmer was the first Western professional go player. As of 2007, there have been fewer than a dozen professional go players born outside of Asia.Manfred Wimmer was born in Austria in 1944... |
 Early Modern France Patrick Merissert |
Austria Krems |
| 1976 | Early Modern France Patrick Merissert |
United Kingdom Tony Goddard |
United Kingdom John Diamond |
United Kingdom Cambridge Cambridge The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the... |
| 1977 | Germany Wolfgang Isele |
Austria Helmut Hasibeder |
Netherlands Ronald Schlemper |
Netherlands Rijswijk Rijswijk Rijswijk is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. It is a suburb of The Hague and covers an area of 14.48 km² .... |
| 1978 | Austria Helmut Hasibeder |
Netherlands Max Rebattu |
United Kingdom Mathew Macfadyen |
Early Modern France Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... |
| 1979 | Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Netherlands Ronald Schlemper |
Netherlands Robert Rehm |
Germany Konigswinter Königswinter Königswinter is a town and summer resort in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite to Bonn, at the foot of the Siebengebirge.- Main sights :... |
| 1980 | United Kingdom Mathew Macfadyen |
Germany Jurgen Mattern |
Early Modern France André Moussa |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Mali Losinj Mali Lošinj -Mayors:*Hrvoje Lesic - *Mario Hofmann - *Dragan Balija - Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar *Gari Capelli - Croatian Democratic Union -References:... |
| 1981 | Netherlands Rob van Zeijst |
Austria Helmut Hasibeder |
Netherlands Robert Rehm |
Austria Linz Linz Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about... |
| 1982 | Netherlands Ronald Schlemper |
Netherlands Robert Rehm |
Early Modern France André Moussa |
 Denmark CopenhagenCopenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... |
| 1983 |  Poland Janusz Kraszek |
United Kingdom Terry Stacey |
United Kingdom Mathew Macfadyen |
United Kingdom Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area... |
From 1984, the Championship became open.
| Year | Open Champion | European Champion | Venue | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 |  South Korea Hong Tay-You |
United Kingdom Mathew Macfayden |
 Switzerland PorrentruyPorrentruy Porrentruy is a Swiss municipality and seat of the district of the same name located in the canton of Jura.-Geography:The municipality lies on both sides of the Allaine River, in Ajoie at the foot of the Jura Mountains on the north... |
Macfayden won the play-off final against Pierre Colmez (FR) |
| 1985 | United Kingdom Mathew Macfayden |
Netherlands Terschelling Terschelling Terschelling is a municipality and an island in the northern Netherlands, one of the West Frisian Islands.Waddenislanders are known for their resourcefulness in using anything and everything that washes ashore. With few trees to use for timber, most of the farms and barns are built with masts... |
||
| 1986 | Netherlands Ronald Schlemper |
 Hungary BudapestBudapest Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter... |
||
| 1987 | United Kingdom Mathew Macfayden |
Early Modern France Grenoble Grenoble Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère... |
||
| 1988 | Hungary Tibor Pocsai |
Germany Hamburg Hamburg -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808... |
||
| 1989 |  Japan Toshiyuki Sogabe |
United Kingdom Mathew Macfayden |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia Nis Niš Niš is the largest city of southern Serbia and third-largest city in Serbia . According to the data from 2011, the city of Niš has a population of 177,972 inhabitants, while the city municipality has a population of 257,867. The city covers an area of about 597 km2, including the urban area,... |
|
| 1990 | Netherlands Rob van Zeijst |
Austria Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... |
||
| 1991 |  Mainland China Zhang Shutai |
 Russia Alexei Lazarev |
 Belgium NamurNamur (city) Namur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia.... |
|
| 1992 | Japan T. Matsumoto |
Russia Alexei Lazarev |
United Kingdom Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour.... |
|
| 1993 | Netherlands Rob van Zeijst |
Praha | ||
| 1994 | Netherlands Guo Juan |
Netherlands Maastricht Maastricht Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border and near the German border... |
||
| 1995 | Netherlands Guo Juan |
Poland Tuchola Tuchola Tuchola is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. The Pomeranian town, which had a population of 13,976 as of 2004, is located close to the Tuchola Forests about 7t0 km north of Bydgoszcz, and is the seat of Tuchola County... |
||
| 1996 | Netherlands Guo Juan |
 Italy Abano TermeAbano Terme Abano Terme is a town and comune in the province of Padua, in the Veneto region, Italy, on the eastern slope of the Colli Euganei; it is 10 kilometers southwest by rail from Padua. Abano Terme's population is 19,062 .The town's hot springs and mud baths are the main economic resource... |
||
| 1997 | South Korea Hyuk Lee |
Netherlands Guo Juan |
Early Modern France Marseille Marseille Marseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of... |
|
| 1998 | South Korea Hyuk Lee |
 Kingdom of Romania Robert Mateescu |
Kingdom of Romania Mamaia Mamaia Mamaia is a resort on the Romanian Black Sea shore, considered to be Romania's most popular resort. It is situated immediately north-east of Constanţa... |
|
| 1999 | Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
 Slovakia Podbanske |
||
| 2000 | South Korea Hyuk Lee |
Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
Germany Strausberg Strausberg Strausberg is a city in Brandenburg, Germany, located 30 km east of Berlin. With a population of 26,206 in 2010 it is the largest town in the district of Märkisch-Oderland.-History:... |
|
| 2001 | Russia Andrei Kulkov |
 Republic of Ireland Dublin |
||
| 2002 | Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
 Independent State of Croatia ZagrebZagreb Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city... |
||
| 2003 | South Korea Hong Seul Ki |
Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
Russia St Petersburg |
|
| 2004 | South Korea Young Kwang Sun |
Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
Poland Tuchola Tuchola Tuchola is a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in northern Poland. The Pomeranian town, which had a population of 13,976 as of 2004, is located close to the Tuchola Forests about 7t0 km north of Bydgoszcz, and is the seat of Tuchola County... |
|
| 2005 | Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
Praha | ||
| 2006 | South Korea Park Chi Seon |
Russia Svetlana Shikshina Svetlana Shikshina Svetlana Valerievna Shikshina is a professional Go player from Russia, one of only four western females to date to reach professional status. She achieved this in 2002, affiliated to the Hanguk Kiwon .- Biography :Svetlana Shikshina started playing go at the age of 10... |
Italy Frascati Frascati Frascati is a town and comune in the province of Rome in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific... |
|
| 2007 | South Korea Hong Seok-Ui |
Russia Ilya Shikshin |
Austria Villach Villach Villach is the second largest city in the Carinthia state in the southern Austria, at the Drava River and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the population is 58,480.-History:... |
|
| 2008 | South Korea Park Jong-Wook |
Kingdom of Romania Catalin Taranu Catalin Taranu Cătălin Țăranu , born March 31, 1973 in Romania, is one of the very few professional players of the board game of Go from outside Asia.- Biography :... |
 Sweden LeksandLeksand Leksand is a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,861 inhabitants in 2005.- Sport :Leksand is famous for the Leksands IF ice hockey team. Leksand is also home to the Leksands Baseball and Softball Club, one of the oldest and more successful baseball clubs... |
|
| 2009 | South Korea Kim Eunkuk |
Russia Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Dinerchtein Alexandre Grigorievich Dinerchtein is a professional Go player from Russia. He is one of only a few non-Asian players to reach professional status, which he achieved in 2002 at the Hanguk Kiwon... |
Netherlands Groningen |
|
| 2010 | Russia Ilya Shikshin |
 Finland TampereTampere Tampere is a city in southern Finland. It is the most populous inland city in any of the Nordic countries. The city has a population of , growing to approximately 300,000 people in the conurbation and over 340,000 in the metropolitan area. Tampere is the third most-populous municipality in... |
||
| 2011 | South Korea Kim Youngsam |
Russia Ilya Shikshin |
Early Modern France Bordeaux Bordeaux Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture... |