Go Baron 2013 Finals Match

Ondrej Silt (6d) vs. Lukas Podpera(6d)

three winnig games fight for Three Golden Ounces
and
Go Baron 2013 title

takes place in Prague, on December 6th - 8th

round 1 starts on Friday, December 6th at 4:30 pm

live on EuroGoTV-Czech ang KGS
for more info see egoban.cz

placed by eurogotv-czech at 23:52 Thu 05 December 2013

Cup of Japan House 49-2013


The Cup of Japan House, a class A tournament, played from 30-11-2013 to 01-12-2013 in Moscow, Russia, was won by Ilja Shikshin 7d (photo), second came Igor Nemlij 5d and third was Vadim Khavin 4d.

Result table.





placed by Newsbot at 15:14 Thu 05 December 2013

Torneo di Go del Museo del 900 49-2013

The Torneo di Go del Museo del 900, a class C tournament, played on 01-12-2013 in Crocetta del Montello (Tv), Italy, was won by Leonardo Giuliato 4k, second came Gregorio Ussardi 8k and third was Giuseppe Gennaro 10k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 04 December 2013

Cupa Orasului Voluntari 49-2013

The Cupa Orasului Voluntari, a class C tournament, played on 30-11-2013 in Voluntari, Romania, was won by Alexandru Teodor Dogaru 15k, second came Mihnea Gabriel Alexandrescu 17k and third was Ana Maria Pascu 17k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 04 December 2013

Coventry 49-2013


The Coventry, a class A tournament, played on 30-11-2013 in Warwick University, United Kingdom, was won by Bruno Poltronieri 3d, second came Andrew Kay 4d and third was Yuanbo Zhang 4d.
(photo Jon Diamond 4d place 5 of 37)

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 04 December 2013

Championship of Karelia 49-2013

The Championship of Karelia, a class A tournament, played from 30-11-2013 to 01-12-2013 in Petrozavodsk, Russia, was won by Dmitrij Kornev 4d, second came Vladimir Shvecov 3d and third was Dmitrij Kirakosjan 3d.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 04 December 2013

16th Serbian individual Cup 49-2013


The 16th Serbian individual Cup, a class A tournament, played from 29-11-2013 to 30-11-2013 in Belgrade, Serbia, was won by Dusan Mitic 6d (photo), second came Nikola Mitic 5d and third was Dejan Krstic 4d.

Result table.




placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 04 December 2013

34. Berliner Kranich 49-2013


The 34. Berliner Kranich, a class A tournament, played from 30-11-2013 to 01-12-2013 in Berlin, Germany, was won by Lukas Podpera 6d (photo), second came Robert Jasiek 5d and third was Kevin Sanow 4d.

Result table.


placed by Newsbot at 00:22 Mon 02 December 2013

480th Velika Gorica weekend go-tournament 49-2013

The 480th Velika Gorica weekend go-tournament, a class C tournament, played on 30-11-2013 in Velika Gorica, Croatia, was won by Marko Ugarcina 6k, second came Mladen Smud 1k and third was Vlatko Crnkovic 10k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Mon 02 December 2013

Korean Ambassador`s Cup 49-2013


The Korean Ambassador`s Cup, a class C tournament, played from 23-11-2013 to 24-11-2013 in Espoo, Finland, was won by Juri Kuronen 6d, second came Vesa Laatikainen 5d (photo) and third was Bean Yang 4d.

Result table.


placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Mon 02 December 2013

BGA Title Match 2013


The BGA Title Match 2013, a class A tournament, played from 16-11-2013 to 23-11-2013 in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, was won by Andrew Kay 4d, second came Andrew Simons 4d (photo)





placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Mon 02 December 2013

Interview with a fresh 6d: Lukáš Podpěra

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the very first interview with Lukas Podpera (18) as a Czech 6d, after he reached 2600.172 GoR!

Sandmann: Hi, Lukas!

Lukáš: Hi Viktor!

S: Nice to meet you:P Tell me about your weekend!

L: This weekend I played Berliner Kranich tournament. It was very hard to win it although I was the strongest player in the field. It's very hard to play when everyone expects just your victory. After all I'm very happy that I finally reached 2600 GoR which means that I was promoted to 6-dan in Czechia. :)

Actually I was counting it after every game ;) I had just 4 points left to go; all my opponents were much weaker by rating but in fact they were quite strong.

S: Congratulations!

L: Thanks :)

S: What's your next tournament?

L: Last week I won a double knock-out qualification for the Czech Go Baron Title. So next week I will challenge Ondřej Šilt for it and I will try my best. :)

S: Please tell us about your Go.

L: Ah, interesting question :P When I was younger I tried to find the best style for me to play. Three years ago I replayed all games from Shusaku - Invincible so naturally I started playing much solid style, many honte, sure cash... But last year I found out that it's not enough to play like that against European top players so I started playing more severely, also because of my studies in Korea. Now I'm actually trying to find the balance and to not play boring Go.

S: Ah interesting, I'm trying to do the same at the moment.
I also used to play ultra solid and I'm trying to change for the same reasons. (Last week's Go to Innovation might have activated my aggressive trait :S)

L: Good to know that some players are trying to do the same, maybe Palko is a small inspiration for us ^^

S: Hehe yeah:P So what do you think about the Go level in Europe?

L: Of course European Go might never be like the Asian one. But finally with the CEGO project I see some vision for young players who would like to become professionals, including me. :)

I think it's just a question of time when Europe will have professional players who will live just from Go but probably we will never be as strong as the Asians.

S: You might be selected for next year's pro qualification (at Strasbourg, Amsterdam and Vienna tournaments), how do you see your chances?

L: Next year I will be preparing for my graduation exams so I'm not sure whether I could concentrate sufficiently on the pro tests. But anyway my chances would be very small. However in September I will probably go to China so maybe I can dream about becoming pro in 2015 ;)

Btw. although I have an FCE certificate I'm making a lot of grammatical mistakes in English so I hope you will correct them :D

S: Ah I'm not that good either, but I think EuroGoTV readers are smart people who will comprehend this despite the mistakes.

Hmmm do you have any ideas how to improve European Go?

L: As I said already the CEGO project is some hope for European Go, we will see how it works in the future. And of course much more children should play Go, especially in Czech Republic the situation with the youngsters is quite hopeless :(

S: I can assure you the situation in Austria is much worse:P But we are working on it.

Final question: Which was first - chicken or egg?

[...reasoning for the following conclusion was censored due to, you know, reasons...]

L: Maybe the egg was made by God of Go :D

S: Thank you for your time :) Good luck for next week!

L: You're welcome, thanks! :)

placed by sandmann at 23:53 Sun 01 December 2013

Kranich Berlin 2013 report

Veni Vidi Vici for tournament winner Lukas Podpera fresh Czech 6d

Round 1:
Board 1: Youngsters Lukas Podpera 5d(w) and Kevin Sanow 4d met each other on board 1 SGF and video

Board 2: Fresh Berlin Champion 2013 David Seibt 4d had to face the living legend, 4 times Berlin Champion of the past, Robert Jasiek 5d, alias Sum on KGS.
The Champion of the past won. SGF and video


Round 2:

Board 1: Again talented youth players on board 1.
Lukas Podpera 6d from the Czech Republic now had to face German Jonas Welticke 4d.

In short....a joseki went bad....SGF and video

Board 2: The notorious Berliner go-book writer and former Berlin Champion Robert Jasiek 5d had to face a another former Berlin Champion Bernd Schütze 5d, who always wins when he is in front of a (EuroGoTV) camera.

This time...was an exception....as Bernd didnt watch the clock and lost on time. SGF and video

Round 3:

Board 1: Allready a kind of a finale as Lukas Podpera 6d played with Robert Jasiek 5d. Robert skilfully took the center; it looked really big, but then young Lukas showed us his endgame power; move after move he came closer and in the end the hidden aji of his dead stones in the center made the difference too big in Lukas advantage, so Robert resigned. SGF and video

Board 2: David Seibt 4d took the white stones against Kevin Sanow 4d. Both played very slow in the beginning and with the progressive Canadian overtime in sight, everybody waited for the fireworks. I dont know how, but they played it out until the last dame!
SGF and video


Round 4:

Board 1:

Unbeaten leader Lukas Podpera 6d had to face Tobias Berben 4d, who entered the room with a big smile as he last night had won a big money prize in a poker tournament.

Lukas doesnt care about luck and so after 156 moves Tobias had to resign. SGF and video

Board 2: Jonas Welticke 4d and Robert Jasiek dont need much time to make important strategic decisions; combine this with the fact that yours truly HW9x9 relayed the wrong first(!!) move to KGS and that the scribe for board 2 was just a few minutes late, the result for the average KGS viewer was a disaster......about 60 moves played, but not on KGS....luckely we had some help from players from other boards! who used the edit function to make a fresh start. Right on the moment EuroGoTV2 had the right position on KGS, the players started to think before they moved....In the end Jonas even didnt have time left, so Robert won his second game by time (but to be fair to Robert, i believe in both games he had the upper hand). Replay the correct SGF and video

Round 5:
Board 1: Lukas Podpera 6d, who's rating would pass the 2600 mark when he would win this game, played with local hero and business lawyer Bernd Schütze 5d. Several times the viewers had the feeling Bernd should resign, but every time he managed to make it close again. Late in the endgame, when Bernd saw that he could not win anymore, he resigned. SGF and video

Congratulations Lukas! With your tournament victory and your new rating high.

Board 2: Old school ruled as Robert Jasiek 5d met Vladimir Danek 5d. Vladimir was winning all the way, but in the end Robert tricked him and won so by 5. SGF and video



As every year an important power behind the succes of the tournament are the Japanese house wifes who make the best food ever for real modest prizes. Also the many volenteers deserve everybodys graditude. But the real reason for the tournaments succes are players themselves. Many of them are low kyu go-players, but hi dan nice people.

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

All Results.

placed by HW9x9 at 14:39 Sat 30 November 2013

Berlin Championship Final 2013

Sometimes things are not going according to plan......

It started with the fact that i did not bring enough equipment for the live TV transmission of the game review by In-seong Hwang 8d, who made a lot of adverticement for it on his site: www.yunguseng.com.

Sorry In-seong! Sorry everybody who was waiting for it!!!

Then the game....overtime was not set correctly; then around move 190, when many mistakes allready had passed, big mistakes followed.

A black group escaped that should/could be dead; the same, but now even bigger, group died; a white groupe died when David wanted to save 2 stones......

This all happened in heavy overtime by both (15 stones in 5 minutes). Espescially David managed his time `badly`, so he had to make every time his last 5 moves in about 5 seconds.

Some of these moves were made `incorrectly`....(he first pressed the clock with his left hand, then placed the stone with his right hand). As seen on the video on 04.02.45 Michael objected to this behaviour and i presumed the game was over.......WRONG....they played on; i thought it was the analyses.....and only after 10 moves i didnt record it hit me that they still were playing for real and i was hopelesly behind in scribing during overtime for both.....so sorry to all the viewers on KGS!!!!!

In the end David won by 10 points and is the 2013 Berlin Champion.

The correct SGF, video and photos.

placed by HW9x9 at 00:59 Sat 30 November 2013

Championship of Russia, Final 48-2013


The Championship of Russia, Final, a class A tournament, played from 20-11-2013 to 24-11-2013 in Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, was won by Timur Sankin 6d (photo), second came Ilja Shikshin 7d and third was Dmitrij Surin 6d



Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Fri 29 November 2013

week 48 live TV events

Berlin Championship 2013 Final
Broadcasted on: EuroGoTV1 on friday

Berlin Kranich 2013
Broadcasted on: EuroGoTV1 and EuroGoTV2 on saterday and sunday

You can also follow the games on KGS.


placed by EuroGoTV1 at 10:25 Thu 28 November 2013

7th ASCIG Cup 48-2013

The 7th ASCIG Cup, a class C tournament, played from 23-11-2013 to 24-11-2013 in Bucuresti, Romania, was won by Robert Oros 18k, second came Alexandra Munteanu 20k and third was Stefan Mitrea 20k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Wed 27 November 2013

Romanian Cup Semifinal- Braila, 2013


The Romanian Cup Semifinal- Braila, 2013, a class B tournament, played on 24-11-2013 in Braila, Romania, was won by Catalin Albu 4k, second came Silvestru State 1d (photo) and third was George Chirila 1d

Result table.



placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Tue 26 November 2013

16. Go to Innovation 48-2013


The 16. Go to Innovation, a class B tournament, played from 22-11-2013 to 24-11-2013 in Berlin, Germany, was won by In-seong Hwang 8d (photo), second came Viktor Lin 6d and third was Lluis Oh 6d

Result table.





placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Tue 26 November 2013

La Carboneria 48-2013

The La Carboneria, a class C tournament, played on 16-11-2013 in Sevilla, Spain, was won by Jorge-Antonio Nunez 10k, second came Raul Aguilera 6k and third was Pablo Rodriguez 15k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Tue 26 November 2013

Fresh interview with Hwang Inseong, champion of the 16th Go to Innovation (Berlin)





Hwang Inseong: Hi, Viktor!

Sandmann: Hi! How are you? I heard you won the Go to Innovation tournament, congratulations!

HI: Thank you! It’s the 7th time I win this tournament (and I was runner-up once).

S: How do you feel about it?

HI: I’m very happy. It’s my first tournament after a 20 months break :P This is one of the hardest tournaments for me; even so, I try to join every time because… There are many reasons.

1. This tournament uses Hahn-system; Prof. Hahn is the guy who gave me the chance to go to Europe in 2005. Without him, I could not have come to Europe at all :) so I want to keep this tournament runnung and thus I join and try to make it more fun for people who enjoy this tournament.
2. When I came to Europe for the first time, I stayed for about 6 months at Martin's place (main organiser). I know how much he likes Go and this tournament. So I want him to rejoice in my participation and showing a good performance.

S: What do you think of the Hahn system?

HI: Ah, the rules are very hard for strong players. Therefore, I don't want many tournaments to adopt these rules, but on the other hand, to play this very special tournament once a year would be very nice for Go players!
So I'd like to recommend to Go players to join this tournament!

S: I heard you are staying in Berlin, what are your plans?

HI: Between GTI and Kranich tournament, there is the Berlin Go Week. There are different events every night, I’m in charge of two events: a workshop on Wednesday and live-commentary of the Berlin championship finals on Friday night. More info: www.govb.de

S: Does Semi (Inseong’s wife) want to say something?

HI: About?

S: Whatever :D I heard you are learning French.

HI: Semi said “no”:P

S: ;(

HI: Yes, I moved to Grenoble. Starting in Decembre or January I’ll become one of the national pédagogues in France. The FFG hired me as a teacher, therefore I’ll have a visa in France. I’m very grateful to the FFG that they hire and give me an opportunity to stay in Europe longer. Of course Semi is with me all the time :) <3

S: I ran out of questions. Do you want to leave a message for your fans? Semi can say something too.

HI: Semi went shopping… :P

S: Noooooo.

HI: Hmm, these 2 years I haven't joined many tournaments in Europe because I focused more on teaching with my online Go school Yunguseng Dojang. However, in the future, I plan to join more tournaments and show good quality games so people can enjoy my games therefore enjoy Go more.
It doesn't mean that I won't focus on my Go school. I'll open one more Go school next year for American Go players (same system for different time zone). I will start advertising in Decembre.
My plan is that, I'd like to provide good quality teaching and teaching system. Therefore Go players can improve their strength and enjoy this great game more! I'll do my best to let people know what I know.

S: Oh wow. Ok, I think it’s enough. Thank you for your time! I will arrange it in an intelligent way for EuroGoTV.

HI: Thx Viktor! It was very good to see you in Berlin. Hope to see you again soon!

(further smalltalk omitted)

P.S.:
HI: Hi, Viktor, please add a link for the Yunguseng Dojang:) http://yunguseng.com/
(click to access SFW pictures of Inseong!)

placed by sandmann at 16:52 Mon 25 November 2013

Go Baron Qualification 48-2013


The Go Baron Qualification, a class A tournament, played from 22-11-2013 to 24-11-2013 in Praha, Czech Republic, was won by Lukas Podpera 5d (photo), second came Jan Simara 6d and third was Jan Hora 6d

Result table.



placed by Newsbot at 00:21 Mon 25 November 2013

Semifinala Cupa Br 2013- juniori


The Semifinala Cupa Br 2013- juniori, a class C tournament, played on 24-11-2013 in Braila, Romania, was won by Sebastian State 11k (photo), second came Daniel-Andrei Dajbog 17k and third was Claudiu-Mihai Brinza 18k.

Result table.


placed by Newsbot at 15:14 Sun 24 November 2013

Preliminarii Cupa Romaniei- kyu 47-2013

The Preliminarii Cupa Romaniei- kyu , a class C tournament, played on 23-11-2013 in Galati, Romania, was won by Daniel-Andrei Dajbog 17k, second came Claudiu-Mihai Brinza 18k and third was Gabriela Adascalitei 20k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 15:14 Sun 24 November 2013

8. Go turnir Filozofskog fakulteta 47-2013

The 8. Go turnir Filozofskog fakulteta, a class B tournament, played on 23-11-2013 in Zagreb, Croatia, was won by Lovro Furjanic 1d, second came Zvonko Bednjanec 3k and third was Mladen Smud 1k.

Result table.

placed by Newsbot at 15:14 Sun 24 November 2013

Go to Innovation 2013 report

Round 1: SGF and video

Round 2: Sensation!!! The favorite loses to a 2d player by 2.5 points! SGF and video


Round 3: In-seong made Viktor lin 6d resign. SGF and video

Round 4: Learn all about aji by replaying this game between In-seong Hwang 8d and Lluis Oh 6d. SGF

Round 5: In-seong Hwang loses big! SGF and video


At 17.00 there was as every year free beer for all participants.

Round 6: The unthinkeble happened.....In-seong resigned....to Petru Oancea 3d from Romania.... SGF and video

Round 7: SGF and video

Round 8: And in the end In-seong Hwang 8d wins. Please check out how sneaky he invited David Diering 2d to play J7 instead of K7 on move 166!! SGF and video

photos day 1
photos day 2
photos day 3

placed by HW9x9 at 20:51 Fri 22 November 2013