The European Go Federation (EGF) now has its’ own discussion forum. The new platform for European go issues is intended for use by go organizers throughout Europe. “You can use this forum also for your tournament announcements, if you want to spread the information throughout Europe,” says EGF President Martin Stiassny. “I will use this forum intensively, for announcements but also for answering your questions.”
One of the first posts on the forum is about a new team tournament in Guangzhou, China from December 19-26 “It is more or less a new team world championship,” says Staissny. “It will be an amazing event. It will be held every two years and should be the tournament with the highest prize-money in China. Guangzhou has a super Go-Club, like Hangzhou. Although the flight-costs are not covered by the organizers, the prize-money for the amateur-teams is really surprising, and I see very good chances for teams from Europe to win this prize-money.” Stiassny urges European players “to find three players of one country, so called ‘regions’ might be Scandinavia or Spain/Portugal, but not ‘Western Europe’ or ‘Balkan'”.
