Hello all, we would like to inform you that the next 9 weeks training starts on 11.9. The price is as usual 90 €. However, if you register until 21.8., you will get a 10% discount. You can find more information about the course here. You may also again give a wish for a specific […]
Manja & Dohyup – Pair Go winners at EGC
One more congratulations go to our teacher Manja Marz 4d and her EGC pair go partner Dohyup Kim 7d! Last week, they won the Pair Go tournament at EGC. Our congratulations also go to Elian Grigoriu 6d, who is also a teacher at JIGS, and his partner Mirta Medak 3d for the 2nd place! The […]
Andrii Kravets – The European Champion 2023
Big congratulations to our teacher Andrii Kravets 1p for becoming The European Champion of 2023! His path to victory led through many strong opponents. In the 1st round, he won against Davide Bernardis, then he stumbled in the 2nd round, where he lost to Jonas Welticke. However, the tournament is played by a double knockout […]
JIGS Tsumego Challenge at EGC 2023
It is less than a week until EGC 🙂 We are very happy to see you at EGC. Therefore we’ve prepared a JIGS Tsumego Challenge at EGC this year. Each day you get 9 problems (in three categories) and you can collect up to 18 points per day. If you have more than 100 points, […]
Congratulations to a JIGS student!
We are happy to announce, that our JIGS student Frantisek Caha (2d, CZ) has won the Leipzig tournament (49. Leipziger Bergmannsturnier) 🙂 Frantisek is studying in several JIGS courses: A lot of effort was put into achieving this victory – Congratulations! Tournament review in German: https://www.go-leipzig.de/kurzbericht-49-bergmannsturnier/
Play and Train @ JIGS
Do you sometimes wish to be in an Asian go school? I once saw 50 kids playing each other and the teacher walking around, correcting their moves during their games. They should take back the last move and play with a better intention or tactical move. We mimic such a go school in our online […]
JIGS is the Bundesliga champion 2022/2023
The Bundesliga season 2022/23 ended last week. And our JIGS team finished 1st place! 🎉 Members of the team were: Andrii Kravets 1p, Matias Pankoke 6d, Elian Grigoriu 6d, Manja Marz 4d, Olesia Malko 3d, Erik Weigert 2d, Frantisek Caha 2d. Here you can find the final standings: JIGS also has a B team called […]
Go Go and more Go at the Oldenburg Tournament!
Who needs a normal 5 round weekend tournament, if you could play 7 rounds at the weekend? This will happen on 27.5. – 28.5. in Oldenburg as a Pokalturnier. And it is even more interesting, because on 26.5. there will be Seminar given by Andrii Kravets, 1p — in a way that you can apply […]
European Women’s Go Championship 2023
Last weekend, our teacher Manja Marz 4d participated in European Women’s Go Championship in Strasbourg, France. This year, Chinese-Austrian Li Ting 1p also participated for the first time and she was considered to be a big favorite because even though her last official tournament was 4 years ago, she is a professional player, who possesses […]
Last-minute training before EGC 2023 – 9-week course
Our next 9×9 online course will start next week, so now is the last chance to join! 🙂 The next 9×9 course finishes just before the European go congress in Leipzig: https://www.egc2023.de/, so with our course you can show at EGC that you got stronger. 💪 This time we will have 5 classes ranging from […]