Blog about the best go tournament around

First version of the sgf file of the 6th round game between Benjamin Teuber (6d) and Ye Tian (1p): round6.sgf.

First version of the sgf files of the 3rd-5th round games on board 1 or 2:
round3.sgf,
round4.sgf,
round5.sgf.

Files with commentary by Liu Yuanbo (2p from China) will follow here as soon as they will have been edited.

First version of the sgf file of the second round game on board 1 between Merlijn Kuin (6d) and Junfu Dai (7d): round2.sgf.

First version of the sgf file of the first round game on board 1 between Merijn de Jong (3d) and Junfu Dai (7d): round1.sgf.

Several professional go players will be present at the 2010 tournament to give presentations, lectures and game commentary.

Liu Yuanbo (2p from China, also known as Peter Liu, see http://senseis.xmp.net/?LiuYuanbo) is an experienced teacher of go and will give commentary on the main games each day.

Liu Yuanbo teaching go (Courtesy of Go Club Zürich)

Liu will bring along with him some strong colleagues and friends of his: Ye Tian (1p), Jue Wang (5d) and Hua Jou（5d).

And, finally, Dai Junfu (7d from China and France, also known as Eric Dai, see http://senseis.xmp.net/?JunfuDai) will give a lecture on the important but difficult aspect of strategy in go. His book “Chûban, la stratégie au jeu de go” just came out and you will be able to buy it at the tournament (PRAXEO Éditions, Neuilly sur Seine, ISBN 2-9520472-7-8).

Chuban by Dai Junfu

Registration for the 39th Amsterdam International Go Tournament (2010) has started!

Major tournament of the Pandanet Go European Cup series 2010-2011

Thursday, May 13 – Sunday, May 16, 2010

More details will follow soon. You can subscribe to keep informed.

Please use our registration form to register online.

Registration for the 38th Amsterdam International Go Tournament (2009) has started!

Major tournament of the Pandanet Go European Cup series 2009-2010

Thursday May 21 – Sunday May 24, 2009

More details will follow soon. You can subscribe to keep informed.

Please use our registration form to register online.

20 players participated in the Lightning tournament on Friday, May 2, 2008. The results were as follows:

1: Ondrej Silt (5 points),
2 through 4: André Engels, Jerome Salignon, Julian v.d. Busken (4 points).

Results for the first DNM Rapid tournament, played on Saturday, May 3, 2008:

1: Peter Brouwer (5 points),
2 through 7: Alie Dijkstra, Arnoud Rutgers v.d. Loeff, Harry Weerheijm, Douwe Meyer, René van Breugel, Ton Hendriks (3 points).

Results for the second DNM Rapid tournament, played on Sunday, May 4, 2008:
1 and 2: Liselot Bouman, Frank Janssen (4 points),
3 through 5: Erik Kaper, Rob van Vucht, Ruben Calon (3 points).

Have a look at chessvista.com and photos of the Amsterdam Go Tournament 2008 for photos of the tournament!