European Go Championship

[4] In 1961 the 5th European Go Championship was held in August in Baden, where Japanese professional players Kensaku Segoe and Utaro Hashimoto gave exhibitions.

[7] Although not allowed to play in the competition, two Japanese professional players attended and provided instruction and engaged in simultaneous exhibitions.

[11] In Groningen, the young 5-dan Thomas Debarre from France defeated Cătălin Țăranu in Round 4.

In round 5, the 3-times European Champion from the Netherlands, Rob van Zeijst, lost against Alexandre Dinerchtein.

Alexandre Dinerchtein remained ahead on tiebreak to win the title,[12] his seventh time as European go Champion.

In Tampere, as a first act of the championship, Cornel Burzo from Romania beat the reigning champion, the Russian professional Alexandre Dinerchtein.

The young Artem Kachanovskyi from Ukraine stopped the winning ascension of Shikshin at the seventh round.

[15] The pre-registration board showed the participation of previous champions and possible future title-holders such as: This edition also accommodated the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship, a new competition where Romania, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine will try to obtain the first title.

As a side-event, a professional competition was held - some games of the China Weiqi League were played.

[16] The 2012 EGC was held by the river Rhine, in the municipal hall of Bonn-Bad Godesberg, from 21 July to 4 August 2012.

As recorded in the European Go Federation web-site:[26] From 1984, the Championship became open, allowing participants from outside Europe.

This attracted strong players from China and Korea, who have regularly finished in the top spots.

The tournament now consists of 7 rounds of MacMahon, followed by a 3-round single elimination knockout between the top 8 eight European nationals.