В тази рубрика, предлагам да се дава инфо за предстоящи международни го-турнири. От време на време пристигат такива писма по пощата, предимно от организаторите.


36th International Paris Go Tournament

Dear Go-players,
As usual, the 36th International Paris Go Tournament will take place in Easter,
from saturday march the 22nd to monday the 24th, 2008

Biggest Open in Europe, the main event of this tournament will bring around 400
players from 20 different countries in the wonderful celebration room of the
13th arrondissement Town Hall.

We expect the best European Go players to compete for the final of the European
Pandanet cup 2007-2008, last of 20 tournaments around Europe. You will be able
to follow the top group most interesting games on the Internet through IGS.

The main tournament is planned in 6 rounds with a time of 1:30 by players and a
byo-yomi 15 Canadian stones in 5 minutes.
Rules are the European Go Federation ones applied in the Pandanet European Go
Cup (Japanese rules with a komi of 6.5 points).

Many activities are planned around the tournament and several pro players will
be present, for the tournament, game analysis or simultanuous games. You will
be able to enjoy a Blitz tournament and a party in a parisian place on sunday
night.

On top of that a real special event (IA-GO Challenge) is being prepared, with a
fight between Mogo, currently best Go program in the world, against a
professional player on 9x9 and 19x19 gobans. You will be able to follow the
IA-GO Challenge live and on the Internet through KGS.

Pre-registrations are open. It is not compulsory to pre-register but strongly
recommended as we cannot accept more than 400 players in the tournament place.
Please bring proper justification (student cards etc.) to have access to
reduced fares.

More information in : http://paris2008.jeudego.org/index2.php?page=accueil

I hope to see you there

Eric Caudal
Tournament organiser
French Go Federation

Dear go-friends,

Please help us to remind the goplayers in your country of the 2008 European Go Congress in Leksand: http://egc2008.eu

Some recent developments are announced in Newsletter number 2:
http://egc2008.eu/en/congress/newsletter.php?id=5

At the moment there are 449 people from 29 different countries registered, 370 of which to play in the tournaments. Important to know now is that it is cheaper to register and book accommodation before March 15th. There is also a wider choice of accommodation the earlier you register, whether you book accommodation through us or not.

Welcome to Leksand!

for the EGC2008 team,
Henric Bergsåker
Secretary, Swedish Go Association

Dear Members,
Message from Eric Caudal <elicoidal@hotmail.com>
AJAx:


Dear Go-friends,

The Pandanet Go European Cup Final approaches quickly as it will take place as
usual during Paris Go Tournament during Easter week-end (from 22nd to
24th March in the 13ème arrondissement Town Hall).

More information is avaible on http://paris2008.jeudego.org

Please note that you need to register before 10th March if you do not
want to be charged an extra 15 euro fee!! (You do not have to send your
payment in advance.)

You will find hereafter the prizes for the Paris Go Tournament 2008:
Place Prizes (main tournament)
1 1300 €
2 1000 €
3 800 €
4 600 €
5 500 €
6 400 €
7 300 €
8 200 €
Total 5100 €

Besides, the winner of the main tournament will receive a very special
trophy: an original sculpture, with a value of 2400 euro, artwork designed
by the artist Brigitte Fournier-Valette and sponsored by the company
RécitSproque.

The best woman will be rewarded with a beautiful watch "Goïshi" by Seiko,
designed based upon Go game.

The winner of the blitz tournament will get 100 euro, 2nd 50 euro, 3rd
and 4th 25 euro.

Players with 6 victories will get 100 euro, with 5 victories 50 euro and
with 4 victories a book or similar.

Remember that after the last round, we will celebrate the prize ceremony for
the Pandanet Go European Cup concluding the 2007-2008 season with the
following prizes, rewarding the best players in the Pandanet Go European Cup:

Place Prizes (Pandanet Go European Cup)
1 1300 €
2 1050 €
3 870 €
4 680 €
5 560 €
6 440 €
7 370 €
8 310 €
9 250 €
10 190 €
11 130 €
12 70 €
Total 6220 €

Many activities are planned around the tournament and several pro players
will be present, for the tournament, game analysis or simultanuous games.

- The professionnal player Cao Da Yuan 9P will be available during the
tournament for simul games.
- Amateur Bao Yun 7D will perform a blind simul game.
- You will be able to enjoy a Blitz tournament and a party in a Parisian
place on Sunday night.

On top of that a real special event (IA-GO Challenge) is being prepared,
with a fight between Mogo, currently best Go program in the world, against a
professional player on 9x9 on Saturday, an exhibition game on 19x19 on
Sunday and a debate with researcher, computer experts and players on monday.
You will be able to follow the IA-GO Challenge live and on the Internet
through KGS.

Come to the greatest tournament in Europe for a full and long week-end of
the best Go!

Eric CAUDAL
Tournament Organizer

Hello,

I've noticed that there is still no pair registered from your country.
Do you know if there will be? Can you also advertise the event on your
website & forum or mailing list? Please find the official invitation
below.

Thanks,
Roman

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Dear Go Friends,

We'd like to remind you about the 11th European Pair Go Championships,
which will take place in Cracow (Kraków), Poland on 11-13 April 2008.
Any male-female pair consisting of citizens of the same country is
invited! Additionally the representative pair, one per country, chosen
by your Go Association, will receive 100 euro in cash per pair as
expenses compensation.

The EPGC will take place in the "Manggha" - Centre of Japanese Art and
Technology in the very centre of Cracow city. All participants are
also invited to visit Manggha's exhibitions and participate in the tea
ceremony workshop free of charge.

We kindly ask for anyone planning to come to register as soon as
possible, as the accommodation we provide is limited.
If you require invitation or visa, please contact organizers immediately.

The website of the EPGC at http://epgc2008.go.art.pl/ was updated with
additional information, so make sure to visit it.

Kind Regards
--
Roman Pszonka
Polish Go Association, Vice-President
roman.pszonka@go.art.pl

Dear go friends,

Let us invite you most cordially to the 19th International Chess and Games Festival CZECH OPEN 2008. More detailed information about our festival should be found at http://www.czechopen.net/index.php. You can find regulations of go at http://www.czechopen.net/go/index.php.

With best regards

Jan Mazuch

Dr. Jan Mazuch, Director of CZECH OPEN & CZECH TOUR - j.mazuch@avekont.cz
CZECH OPEN - International Festival of Chess, Bridge and Games - http://www.czechopen.net
CZECH TOUR - International Chess Festivals Series - http://www.czechtour.net
International Chess Calendar - http://www.calendar.avekont.cz/
Sachovy kalendar turnaju v CR a SR - http://www.kalendar.avekont.cz/
Chess shop - http://www.avekont.cz/shop

The 8th Istanbul Go Tournament will take place on 11th and 12th of October. This is a Pandanet Cup and we expect almost 100 players to the tournament. The details will be available soon on our website www.istanbulgo.org

Dear Friends,

We would like to see you in the Pandanet Istanbul International Go Tournament which will be marking its 8th anniversary this year. This year's tournament will be hosting Korean Professional 5 Dan Yun Yeong-seon. The tournament will take place on October 11 and 12, next to a very beatiful Bosphorus scene and with extra activities. Please check the tournament web site or contact with me for futher information and questions about accommodation.

The Tournament Page:
http://istanbulgo.org/terr/tour2008-en.html

Best Regards

Mehmet Emin Barsbey
+90 535 952 8993
mehmeteminbarsbey@yahoo.com

Dear BGA,

as a go friend, Izuggo together with VenetoGo and Tortellino Go Club invites you to the 1st edition of the Delta Tournament which will take place on 1-2-3 May 2009 in Anita (FE), Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy. It will be a special chance to play go in a beautiful naturalistic area worldwide known, the Po Delta Park: besides the typical A class european tournament, you can enjoy organized excursions to discover the fascinating landscape of the Comacchio lagoon and taste delicius local food.
If this event might be of interest for your association, please visit http://www.izuggo.com/home/en and extend this invitation to your friends and members.


Leonardo Dal Zovo - Izuggo Organising Committee

We are proud to announce and invite you to the second edition of Shusaku Cup 2009

The tournament will be held on 27-29 march, 2009, in Targu Mures City

Official site: http://www.shusaku.ro/

От Словения напомнят, че до турнира им в Блед остава само месец.

Цялата информация и възможност за регистрация, все още са налични на:

http://go-zveza.com/?language=en&page=razpis

Dear European Federations representatives,

We are please to announce the first International GO Tournament organised by the GO Club of Strasbourg.

It will be held on May 16th and 17th with a group of TOP 16 players.

For further details, please click on the following link:

http://www.gostrasbourg.fr/?lang=en

Thanks to relay this information to your GO players.


With best regards.

Jean-Yves Papazoglou (Go Seigen Club-Toulouse)

EGF representative,on behalf of the French Go Federation

Hello everybody,

it is my pleasure to inform you that this Sunday, on April 19, there will be
the 1st TransAtlantic Youth Go Match staged at KGS. 10 top European youth go
players will play against 10 top American (USA and Canada) youth players.
The games will be played in a tournament room "TransAtlantic Youth Go
Tournament"
set up specifically for this occasion. More information on the match can
be found
at the AGA web page http://usgo.org/tournaments/TransAtlanticYouth/

The games will start at two different times, 15:00 GMT and 18:00 GMT with
5 games
played at each time. Note that due to summer time regime the times are
shifted
in respect to GMT as indicated below [I hope I got it correctly ].

1500 GMT (Moscow 19:00, Jerusalem 18:00, Berlin 17:00, London 16:00)
Andy Liu *bigbadwolf* vs Artem Kachanovskyj *artem92*
Calvin Sun *shipwreck* vs Ali Jabarin *loveHER*
Jack Yang *iwant6pack* vs Alexandr Vashurov *alex575*
Jimmy Guo *cadillac* vs Aleksandr Matushkin *malexandr*
Cherry Shen *cherrysaur* vs Eran Ben Artzi *southpoint*

1800 GMT (Moscow 22:00, Jerusalem 21:00, Berlin 20:00, London 19:00)
Gansheng Shi *stone33* vs Thomas Debarre *Rubik*
Jianing Gan *hkkyeen96* vs Mateusz Surma *drakula*
Matthew Burrall *kasi* vs Nikola Mitic *nidza92*
Hugh Zhang *sume* vs Lazar Manojlovic *Laza*
Daniel Gourdeau *samirduran* vs Johannes Obenaus *rekop*

The games will be played with ING rules (New Zealand rules in KGS, with a
komi of 8),
with 30 min. main time and 10 moves in 5 min. byoyomi. The first board
(Andy and Artem)
will use KGS nigiri for color, and both sides will alternate black and
white (if
Andy is white, then Calvin will be black, etc).

On behalf of EGF and the organizers I would like to wish good luck to all
our players
and also a pleasant experience to all observers.

With my best regards, Ales Cieply (*Aldan* at KGS)

Dear go friends,

Let us invite you most cordially to the 20th International Chess and Games Festival CZECH OPEN 2009. More detailed information about our festival should be found at http://www.czechopen.net/index.php. You can find regulations of go at http://www.czechopen.net/go/index.php.

With best regards

Dr. Jan Mazuch

Dear European Federation representatives,

We are pleased to announce that a new GO challenge "Man against Computer" was accepted by both Catalin TARANU (5dan professional) and INRIA (French Research Institu in data computing and automatism) and its famous computer MOGO program .

The challenge is organised with four 9x9 games on Friday 22nd May 2009 (2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm CET). It will happen at Rennes during a special Exhibition (computer science technologies) event and it will be as well broadcasted on KGS .

More information are available here below (but only in french, sorry for that):
http://www.espace-sciences.org/go

Thanks to relay this information to your GO players.

With best regards.

Jean-Yves Papazoglou
EGF representative,on behalf of the French Go Federation

Hello,

I would like to inform you about a children event in Romania.
It's a summercamp of one week for children up to 18 years, with many tournament and study groups, as well as relaxing activities. It was organized for some years now in a pitoresque mountain area of Romania, close to Bistrita Nasaud town. From this year on, due to recent sponsorship confirmation, the organizers would like to make this event international. The date is 17th-23th june, unfortunately for this year there
is not much time left, but we still hope to have guests from outside Romania. The organization offers free accomodation and meals for three children from each foreign country, up to five countries. This means
that the first five countries that apply for this offer will get it .
In case you are interested, please contact me and i will come up with further details. A webpage of this event is being setup as we speak. The best romanian players will teach there.
Surely, next year the invitation and detailed info will be available much earlier.

Catalin Taranu , president FRGO

Dear Go friends,


The Portuguese Go Association (APGO) has the pleasure to invite every Go player to the next Lisbon Open. This event will be part of the European minor Tour only next year but meanwhile we expect your visit and participation this summer.

It will be held at the International Lisbon Fair - Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) on the 4th and 5th of July.


Prizes:
1º place - 200€
2º place - 100€
3º place - special prize with a 50 euros price value

For all the information incl. acommodation etc. please visit :
http://go-portugal.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130

Please forward this message to anyone whom you think might be interested.

Best regards,
Cristovão Neto
(President of the Portuguese Go Association)

Hi all,

I'm not sure if you all got the following information:

4th Korea Prime Minister Cup
=================
Date: October 23-28, 2009
Venue: Jeonju city, Jeollabuk-do, Korea

Competitors: 71 representative players from 71 coutries and territories

8 rounds Swiss

Web: http://www.kpmc.or.kr

This will be the first IGF-tournament where dopingtests will happen. More informations about doping and the IGF-policy / strategy in this case will come up soon, latest at the EGC2009.

Regards

Martin Stiassny

Document Number: (King’s) 09-0717

Operation Date: July 17th, 2009

Reception: National Baduk Associations

Subject: Information of 2009 KBC International Youth Baduk Camp

1. Purpose of 2009 KBC International Youth Baduk Camp



The basic purpose of this camp is to build human networks among youth Baduk players who will be the future leaders of the Baduk world. Also we emphasize respect for Baduk spirit, sportsmanship, and a deeper understanding of teamwork and responsibility. We look forward to you joining us for this international youth baduk Camp.

2. Camp Information



1. Date: August 14 to August 17(3 days 2 night, Korea standard time)
2. Place: King’s Baduk Education Center, Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, Korea
3. Camp Fee
1. Student: ₩150,000
2. Teacher: ₩100,000
4. Limited number of participants

: Foreign international student (40 people), Korean student (40 people)

5. Meeting place: 2009 Gang-Neung World Youth Baduk Festival
6. Daily Camp Schedule



time Day 1: August 14th
07:00
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00 Arrival & Lunch
14:00 Orientation
15:00 Ice Breaking(Greeting)
16:00 Team Baduk Match Round 1
17:00
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Baduk Bingo Game
20:00 On-line Life & Death team battle
21:00 The End of The Day & Bedtime
22:00




time Day 2: August 15th
07:00 Wake Up & Morning Exercise
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Team Baduk Match Round 2,3
10:00
11:00
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Fishing & Hiking
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00 Dinner
18:00 KBC Mini Olympics
19:00
20:00 Bonfire
21:00
22:00 The End of The Day & Bedtime



time Day 3: August 16th
07:00 Wake Up & Morning Exercise
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Rolling paper & Farewell Ceremony




3. Contact

1. Head Office: +82-454-3114
2. Web site: www.kingsbadukcongress.com
3. E-mail: master@kingsbaduk.com



* Attacted files: 2009 KBC International Youth Baduk Camp Brochure, Application