Over the weekend of November 9th and 10th, 2024, the German Women’s Go Championship took place in Frankfurt. The tournament was held at the Saalbau Titus-Forum, which also hosts the weekly meetings of the Frankfurt Go Club. A total of 11 participants competed in this year’s championship. The games were streamed on OGS (Online Go […]
JIGS Winter Go Camp invitation
Dear go players, we will be having a Winter Go Camp ❄️ in Jena, Germany from 27.12.2024 to 2.1.2025. This time it is a camp for adults and calm teenagers. The main teacher will be Andrii Kravets 2p 🇺🇦 As usual, we will play and study Go, while also having some non-Go activities and a […]
Jena Autumn Camp + 12th Jena Tournament report
Hello everyone, from 5.10. – 11.10. we held another one of our camps in JIGS. This time it was mostly kids’ camp, but we also had a few adults participating. Overall we had 14 students participating and the main teacher was this time Matias Pankoke 6d 🇩🇪 with Andrii Kravets 2p 🇺🇦, Manja Marz 4d […]
Interview with Valerii Krushelnytskyi 7d 🇺🇦 about KPMC
Q: Hello Valerii, congratulations on your incredible achievement of finishing 3rd at the 19th Korean Prime Minister Cup! This is a huge success for both Ukraine and Europe. How does it feel to have reached such a high position, especially considering that only one European player before you has managed to achieve this? Also, what […]
Czech Go Championship 2024
Hello everyone, you might be surprised why we are reporting on the Czech Go Championship, when we are a Go school based in Jena, Germany. We are happy to welcome students from all over the world and we also have some students and a teacher from the Czech Republic. And some of these students and […]
German Go Championship 2024
Hello everyone, at the beginning of October, the German Championship 2024 took place on Rügen. The field was stacked with very strong players ranging from 4d to 6d and nearly everyone had a good shot at the title. This isn’t just a sugarcoated statement, because the results indeed brought several surprises. The players who qualified […]
Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena wins the 20th Hans Pietsch Memorial – German Go Team School Championship
Hans Pietsch, a Go professional and 6-dan player, was the best German Go player who emigrated to Japan to become a professional there. During a go promotion trip to Guatemala, he lost his life in a robbery in January 2003 at the early age of 34. Hans was very popular in both Japan and Europe […]
European Women’s Go Championship 2024
On a rainy and windy weekend in Bratislava, Slovakia, the European Women’s Go Championship was held. In total 24 players gathered at the faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics faculty, where they tried their best to compete for the top spots in the tournament. There was one huge favorite to win the tournament – Li […]
Interview with European Champion 2024 – Andrii Kravets 2p 🇺🇦
Q: Hello Andrii, Congratulations on winning the European Championship again! Securing your title two years in a row is an incredible achievement. You are also the first European champion from Ukraine. In the post-game interview, Stephen Hu asked you how you feel right now and you said: “I don’t know, I don’t feel anything right […]
9 weeks course starting soon!
Dear Go players, our next season of online training will start on the 9th of September. You will find again these elements in the course: *League games — each week you will play a league game ⚔️*Daily Tsumego — we have a point system and there will be price reductions for eager people 📝 Congratulations […]