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 the teacher participated in the Czech Championship 🙂

The championship took place at café Klíner in Prague on the last weekend of September. Eight people participate in the finals, which is a round-robin tournament. The qualification system works as follows – the champion from the last year qualifies automatically and then throughout the year there are three qualification tournaments, where players can collect points when being ranked 1-10 in those tournaments. The 2 best results count as a sum of points and then 7 people with the highest points total qualify.

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These were the finalists (by rating): Lukáš Podpěra (7d), Jan Šimara (1p), Jan Prokop (6d), Vladimír Daněk (5d), Bártík Dach (4d), Petr Cipra (4d), Jan Komín (3d) and František Čáha (3d).

Lukan is one of the JIGS teachers and Bártík, Jan Komín, and František have been participating in our camps/courses.

Over the 4 days, these players were fighting for the best results possible. There were no huge upsets, however, a few outsiders managed to surprise stronger opponents as Petr Cipra 4d won against Vladimír Daněk 5d and then František Čáha 3d won against both Bártík Dach 4d and Petr Cipra 4d, which earned him a 5th place overall. Lukan managed to win all of his games without any major complications, so congratulations to him for getting his 7th title as the Czech champion! 👏

A few words from Lukan: “Czech Championship kept its high standard of organization. It was a pleasure for me to play in such conditions and my performance confirms that. Winning the Czech title is never an easy job and I value this victory a lot.”

Final standings:
🥇 Lukáš Podpěra 7d
🥈 Jan Prokop 6d
🥉 Jan Šimara 1p
4th: Vladimír Daněk 5d
5th: František Čáha 3d
6th: Petr Cipra 4d
7th: Bártík Dach 4d
8th: Jan Komín 3d

You can find the games under this link.

📸: Jaroslav Kotowski

Czech Go Championship 2024
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