Author : frantisek

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Q: Hello Elian, congratulations on becoming the Romanian Champion for 2024! For those who may not know you (there are probably not many of them 😊), could you please introduce yourself and share a bit about your background in Go? Hello Frantisek, it’s a pleasure to hear from you again🙂and thank you for your kind […]

Congratulations to Andrii Kravets 1p 🇺🇦 for defending the title and becoming European champion once again! 👏 We are very happy especially also because Andrii is our main teacher at JIGS. You can look forward to an interview with Andrii soon. Congratulations to the other medalists as well! 🥇Andrii Kravets 1p 🇺🇦 🥈Thomas Debarre 7d […]

Hello everyone, another JIGS summer camp is over and we are bringing you a short report about how things were going. This time we had a mixture of kids and adults with one main teacher – Andrii Kravets 1p 🇺🇦. All participants worked hard on improving their go skills since day 1 and we were […]

Hello everyone, Our summer camp will take place in a little over a month, from July 13th to July 20th. We still have some spots left, so you can join us for a week full of Go and other activities in Jena with fellow Go players. There are usually 3 blocks of go training per […]

Hello everyone, on the first May weekend, there was a very nice tournament organized in Leipzig. It was the 3rd edition of the Frühlings Fuseki tournament and it was being held at Denksport-Zentrum, which is a chess/bridge/go club in the north of Leipzig. Around 60 players from several countries gathered to play a 5 round […]

Hello everyone,there was a big tournament in Prague last weekend – 169 participants from 24 countries. The Prague tournament is one of the biggest European tournaments, if not the biggest. And JIGS couldn’t miss such an event. 😊 This 6 round tournament was completely stacked with strong players. The top group included 20 people of […]