The last round of the 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Tournament A League is perhaps not the most exciting anymore, with Russia as a clear league winner and the three remaining places for the final in Bonn already resolved. Ukraine, France and the Czech Republic are comfortable at 10 points while Hungary (currently 8 points), even if winning, can’t reach the board points total of any of those three. Still, exciting games are guaranteed, and the Netherlands and Poland fight hard for the league place.

Last round pairing, League A, Tuesday 8 May 2012

Russia vs. Netherlands 19:00 CEST
Romania vs. France 20:00
Poland vs. Ukraine 20:00
Germany vs. Hungary 20:00
Sweden vs. Czechia 20:00

Pairings and game records here

At last every game of the second round has been played, let’s see what happened!

Israel 3 – 1 Finland
The victory on board 1 by Antti Törmänen (now insei in Japan) wasn’t enough: Israel was able to subvert the game and clench an unexpected victory thanks to a 1 point mistake during the final ko battle on board 4, played yesterday. As far as I can see, Black should have played T1 at move 249, which gives him a further threat in T5, just enough to win the ko and the game by 0.5 points.
Antti has published a pro-mediated comment of the first board on his blog (post 1, post 2).

Austria 1 – 3 Serbia
A close game decided by sunday’s match between Viktor Lin and Dusan Mitic. The Mitic brothers are still undefeated, and Serbia has now closed the gap with Finland.

Slovenia 1 – 3 Denmark
Denmark prevailed, and moves to the fifth place. As of today they are the only team who won all games on board 3, helped by their balanced lineup. Slovenia put up a good fight, winning on board 4 and losing board 1 only by 7.5 points.

Belgium 3 – 1 Slovakia
Belgium was able to win even without one of its two top players. The most interesting match was probably board 1, in which Lucas Neirynck prevailed after killing one of his opponent’s groups.

United Kingdom 2 – 2 Switzerland
Victories by John Walch in a game characterized by an unusual opening and Sébastien Ott in a game of many invasions allowed Switzerland to get one point and gave the UK their third draw in five games.

Here you can find the pairings, games, and complete results.

What’s next? – Round 6
The next round will hopefully be played between the 15th and the 21st of February.

There won’t be any direct confrontations in the battle for promotion between Finland, Israel and Serbia, as they’ll be playing the UK, Switzerland, and Belgium. Serbia has probably the easiest pairing, and will hope that the UK and Belgium won’t leave their games empty handed.

The last two matches are between Denmark and Slovakia and neighbours Slovenia and Austria.

At last every game of the second round has been played, the players having defeated even the IGS server mantineance. Let’s see what happened!

Slovakia 0-4 Finland
No player from Slovakia showed, so Finland won all four games by forfeit. The penalty for not showing up brings Slovakia down to the last place. Hopefully they will be able to recover!

Serbia 4 – 0 Slovenia
As expected, the favourites won all four games by resignation. The Mitic brothers are still undefeated, but the hardest games have yet to be played! Once more, one of the most interesting games was played by Nikola Mitic.

Belgium 3 – 1 Austria
Vitor Lin’s return (and victory) on sunday gave hope to Austria, but it wasn’t enough. Once more, the Belgians did their best and ended up winning all the other 3 games by resignation. This victory consolidates their fourth position in the standings.

United Kingdom 1 – 3 Israel
There were a few technical problems, so two games started late, but this was probably the most interesting and hard fought match of the day. Ali Jabarin had to do his best to win against Bei Ge, and on board 4, nothwistanding an extremely big furikawari, Ofer Zivony prevailed against David Ward only in the endgame.

Denmark 4-0 Switzerland
First victory for the Danish team; not many chances for the Swiss players to win on any of the boards.

Here you can find the pairings, games, and complete results.

What’s next? – Round 5
The next round will be played between the 18th and the 24th of January. There will be a few interesting matches to look forward to.

First of all, Israel will play against Finland to try claim the first place on the standings. Then Serbia – Austria, Denmark will play against Slovenia: winning there will give them a chance to gain momentum and leave the bottom half of the standings. Slovakia will probably need to score points against Belgium to recover from their los by default. Finally, Switzerland will try to give Team United Kingdom a run for their money.

At last every game of the second round has been played, the players having defeated even the IGS server mantineance. Let’s see what happened!

Finland 3-1 Belgium
Finland wins again, but also collects the first defeat on board 4, in a game characterized by an uncommon taisha variation. Of note also the neat kill that ended the game on board 3.

Austria 3 – 1 Denmark
Very strong performance by the Austrian team, who was probably the underdog here (last year Den won 3-1). Unfortunately board 4 wasn’t played, we sincerely hope that there won’t be many more games awarded by forfeit this year.

Israel 3 – 1 Slovakia
Third consecutive win for Israel! They are putting a good deal of pressure on Finland, in preparation for their match on round 5. Once more Slovakia played well and was close to obtaining a draw against a stronger opponent.

Slovenia 0-4 Switzerland
First victory and first points for Switzerland, in a crucial match for the battle to avoid relegation. Slovenia seemed to have a bad day, losing all four games against opponents of lower rank. Hopefully this defeat won’t diminish their nice fighting spirit. A good example to see the fighting spirit in action is board 4, which deserves to be called “A Game of Kos”.

United Kingdom 2 – 2 Serbia
Once more, the Mitic brothers are undefeated, with Nikola edging Bei Ge by just 0.5 points! The UK was saved by Des Cann and Jon Diamond’s close victories on boards 3 and 4.

Here you can find the pairings, games, and complete results.

At last every game of the second round has been played, the players having defeated even the IGS server mantineance. Let’s see what happened!

Switzerland 0 – 4 Finland
Another defeat for Switzerland, but they had a very rough draw, with Israel and Finland in the first two rounds. Finland beat everyone senseless again. Will Belgium, their next opponent, be able to stop the Finnish Steamrollers?

Slovakia 0 – 4 Serbia
The score doesn’t tell us the whole truth. Slovakia did rather well, as two of the games were very close; I’d recommend especially game 2 between Maros Kral (Svk) and Nikola Mitic (Srb).

Denmark 1 – 3 Israel
Israel reminded us to be a strong contender for promotion and to have one of the strongest players of the league. Jabarin’s kill on board 1 was rather spectacular (at least for a 3 kyu player).

Belgium 2 – 2 Slovenia
Slovenia dominated the two lower tables, but it proved not to be enough. Another strong performance by the two top Belgian players.

United Kingdom 2 – 2 Austria
The games on boards 3 and 4 were interrupted by the IGS server mantineance. Schayan Hamrah (Aut) decided to resign his game without resuming it; instead, Alex Selby (UK) and Jürgen Suntinger (Aut) went on to play a complex game decided by time and ko battles.

Here you can find the pairings, games, and complete results.

As usual, the week after League A it’s time for the League B matches!

Login to Pandanet IGS and join room 36 (“EuropeanTeamChamp”) to observe the games. The team matches are listed below, for individual pairings see: League B, Round 2

Tuesday 11th October 2011

Tuesday 18th October 2011

Times are in local times.

Please notice that the games’ day and time are not final and might be subject to change.

Today on Tuesday 11 October we followed the second round of the championship league. The first games started at 19:00 CET (France vs. Russia) while the others joined at 20:00 CET.

League A Tuesday 11 October

France vs. Russia 2-2
Netherlands vs. Czechia 1-3
Germany vs. Romania 2-2
Ukraine vs. Sweden 4-0
Poland vs. Hungary 1-3

Round 2 player pairings and game records of League A.

The first round has been finally completed. Let’s see what happened!

Slovenia 0 – 4 Finland
Impressive victory by the Finnish team, all four games ending by resignation. We should expect them to be a major contender for the promotion.

Denmark 2 – 2 Serbia
The victories of the Danish lower tables allowed their team to held favourite Serbia to a draw. Most interesting game was probably board 2, where Nikola Mitic (Serbia) was able to snatch a narrow victory making good use of all the aji.

Austria 1 – 3 Slovakia
Slovakia did impressively well in their League B debut and defeated Austria, who ended in 3rd place last year. There will be little risk of relegation if they keep playing like this!

Switzerland 0 – 4 Israel
The Swiss players tried hard but Israel was too strong. Only the fourth game could have ended differently, but a ko helped Tal Michaeli to get ahead of his opponent, Jonas Jermann.

Belgium 3 – 1 United Kingdom
Very solid performance by the Belgian players, who scored an upset against the United Kingdom. Andrew Simons was the only obstacle between Belgium and the joint first place with Israel and Finland. Last year the UK had won 3-1.

Here you can find the pairings, games, and complete results.

This week marks the start for League B of the 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Championship.

Login to Pandanet IGS and join room 36 (“EuropeanTeamChamp”) to observe the games. The team matches are listed below, for individual pairings see: League B, Round 1

Tuesday 27th September 2011

Times are in local times.

Please notice that the games’ day and time are not final and might be subject to change.

The top league of the 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Championship starts this week on Tuesday. The fight for the top positions starts 19:00 Central European Summer Time with Czechia vs. Russia, the other matches start at 20:00 CEST.

Login to Pandanet IGS and join the room 36 to observer the games. The team matches are listed below, for individual pairings see: League A, Round 1

Round 1 Tue 20th Sep 2011

Times in local times.

The 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Championship had a little slow start last week when several teams from League C were still missing. Turkey beat Ireland and Italy beat Bulgaria. For other teams there’ll be some work to do to catch up with the schedule

League A

Round 1 Tue 20th Sep 2011

League B

Round 1 Tue 27th Sep 2011

League C

Round 1 Tue 13th Sep 2011

All times in local times.

Dear All European Team Championship League Teams and Observers,

After the successful first season of the PGETC we will continue right away with the 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Championship. The format is the same, the conditions are the same and the rules will be only marginally revised from the 1st PGETC season.

Please register your teams (6-12 members) for the 2nd PGETC by email as soon as possible. The registration deadline for the team captains and team members is Thursday 8 September (about 10 days to go – sorry for the tight schedule).

Please send your team information to the League Managers, Martin Stiassny and Vesa Laatikainen by 8th September. This invitation to register has been sent by email to the previous team captains.

Here is the overview of the 2nd PGETC schedule, the pairings will be published by the end of August.

Schedule: order leagues C / A / B :

Round 1: September 13 / 20 / 27
Round 2: October 4 / 11 / 18 (because of KPMC from 21.10.)
Round 3: November 1 / 8 / 15 (because of Pair-World Championship 18.11.)
Round 4: December (Nov) 29 / 6 / 13 (because of SAWMG in Beijing)
Round 5: January 10 / 17 / 24
Round 6: February 7 / 14 / 21
Round 7: March 6 / 13 / 20
Round 8: April (March) 27 / 3 / 17 (because of WAGC end of April)
Round 9 May 8 / 15 / 22

Relegation-games: June 5

We will update the web site and keep you informed about the developments, but please register in time!

The Russian team has won the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship – congratulations!
Romania became second, followed by Ukraine and Hungary. For more information, see
Final Results

On July 23rd and 24th, four teams are competing for the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship title: Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary. The matches take place live at the EGC 2011 in Bordeaux, in building A7.

The finals is played in three rounds, with the same time setting as in the leagues: 60 minutes main time and canadian byoyomi with 25 stones in 10 minutes.

Round 1: Saturday, July 23rd 10:30 CEST

Round 2: Saturday, July 23rd 14:30 CEST

Round 3: Sunday, July 24th 20:00 CEST

The league games are now over and the top four teams are preparing for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals in July 2011 held during the European Go Congress 2011 in Bordeaux, France.

Meanwhile, the last league places in League A and League B are still unresolved. This Tuesday 14 June 2011 will see the five-player-teams fighting for the upper league places.

UPDATE: Poland and Switzerland fought their way to the upper leagues!

This week the final league games of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship League C will be held. This will complete the 30 players league rounds, with the Bordeaux finals and the play-offs for league places left.

There were many teams fighting for the Bordeaux finals. In the top League A four teams – France, Czechia, Germany and Hungary – were very close to get the last place in the finals. As it happened, Hungary joins Romania, Russia and Ukraine in the Bordeaux finals, while Finland and Poland will fight for the last League A place. Serbia is gathering force in League B the next year.

In the League B Sweden won the promotion and Spain got demoted. Croatia will meet the second team from the League C in the play-off.

The League C top places are also closely contested with Switzerland, Slovakia and Turkey all in the running. Tuesday 7th June will see the final showdown with the League C matches.

Log in to Pandanet IGS and join the excitement of the final rounds!

League A – the 9th and the Last Round

Pairings in League A – Round 9

League B – the 9th and the Last Round

Results and games in League B – Round 9

League C – the 9th and the Last Round

Pairings in League C – Round 9

The first instance of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship is now close to finish, only two rounds to go in the Pandanet-IGS go server. After that, the best four of the League A will be set for the finals in Bordeaux, France.

The 8th round started with the League B games 19th April, and the League A followed on 3rd May. The League C will play on Tuesday 10th May. Note that the times are given in Western European Summer Time zone.

League A

Results and game records in League A – Round 8

League B

Results and game records in League B – Round 8

League C

Pairings and results in League C – Round 8

After the daylight saving time change, the round 7 of Pandanet Go European Team Championship commences. The League B games were played 29th March and the League A followed 5th April. League C will play the seventh round matches on Tuesday 12th April. Note that the times are given in Western European Summer Time zone.

League C

Pairings and results in League C – Round 7

League A

Pairings and results in League A – Round 7

League B

Pairings and results in League B – Round 7

The sixth round of the Pandanet European Team Championship will be completed with League C matches this week. The League A and B teams met already 15th and 8th March respectively.

League A – Round 6 – Tue 15 March

Pairings and results in League A – Round 6

League B – Round 6 – Tue 8th March

Pairings and results in League B – Round 6

League C – Round 6 – Tue 22nd March

Pairings and results in League C – Round 6

The fifth round is (almost) completed and the halfway round of the league is succesfully past. Four more rounds to go before June, the 6th round will start next week with League B on Tuesday 8th March.

League A – Round 5 – Tue 22nd February

Pairings and results in League A – Round 5

League B – Round 5 – Tue 15th February

Pairings and results in League B – Round 5

League C – Round 5 – Tue 1st March

Pairings and results in League C – Round 5

League A

League B

¹ 2 bp reduced

² 1 bp reduced

League C

³ 5 bp reduced

⁴ 1 mp reduced

⁵ 1 bp reduced

⁶ 6 bp reduced

The League C matches completed the fourth round of Pandanet Go European Team Championship. League A and B matches have been already played.

League C – Round 4 – Tue 8th February

Pairings and results in League C – Round 4

League A – Round 4 – Tue 1st February

Pairings, results and game records in League A – Round 4

League B – Round 4 – Tue 25th January

Pairings, results and game records in League B – Round 4

League A – Round 3 – Tuesday 11 January 2011

League B – Round 3 – Tuesday 04 January 2011

League C – Round 3 – Tuesday 18 January 2011

Results and Games (sgf) from league A
Results from league B
Results and Games from league C

League B, Sweden – Slovenia 3-1

League B, Denmark – Spain 3-1

League B, Austria – Israel 3-1

Here come the results of the second round. There will be soon an automated results table so everything will get neater and easier to update it!

League A: Ukraine – Finland 3-1

League A, Czechia – France 2-2

League B, Belgium – United Kingdom 1-3

League B, Poland – Croatia 3-1

League A, Ukraine – Finland

Monday 13th December GMT 19:00 (21:00 Ukraine, 21:00 Finland)

League A, Czechia – France

Monday 13th December GMT 19:00 (20:00 Czechia , 20:00 France)

League A, Germany – Netherlands

Tuesday 14th December GMT 19:00 (20:00 Germany, 20:00 Netherlands)

League A, Serbia – Russia

Tuesday 14th December GMT 18:00 (19:00 Serbia, 21:00 Russia)

League B, Denmark – Spain 3-1

Tuesday 14th December GMT 19:00 (20:00 Denmark, 20:00 Spain)

*Board 2 18:30

League B, Austria – Israel 3-1

Tuesday 14th December GMT 19:00 (20:00 Austria, 21:00 Israel)

League B, Sweden – Slovenia 3-1

Tuesday 14th December GMT 19:00 (20:00 Sweden, 20:00 Slovenia)

*Board 1 played on 13th of December

Pandanet Go European Team Championship Round 2 will take place next Tuesday. The team captains are now agreeing about the exact playing dates and times but soon we will see the following four-player matches:

Round 2 — Dec 14th 2010

League A

League B

*Board 1 of Sweden vs. Slovenia plays on Mon 13 Dec 20:00
Board 2 of Denmark vs. Spain time to be confirmed

League C

The exact schedules and players will be published when team captains have provided the information.

Meanwhile, read the GoPanda FAQ for a better Pandanet user experience. The FAQ. has been updated with a lot of information on rooms, playing on igs, the chat system and the procedure for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship.

League A: Netherlands – Czechia 2-2

League A: Romania – France 4-0

League A: Finland – Germany 1-3

League B: Israel – Belgium 3-1

League B: Austria – Sweden 2-2

League B: Spain – Slovenia 1-3

League C: Bosnia and Herzegovina – Italy 1-3

League C: Slovakia – Turkey 1-3

League C: Bulgaria – Cyprus 3-1

League C: Luxembourg – Portugal 3-1

League C: Switzerland – Ireland 4-0

League A Netherlands – Czechia

Time played GMT+1 20:00, the first board is played at 14:00 GMT+1

League A Romania – France

Time played GMT 19:00 (20:00 France, 21:00 Romania)

League A Finland – Germany

Time played GMT 19:00 (20:00 Germany, 21:00 Finland)

League C Slovakia – Turkey

Time played GMT 19:00 (20:00 Slovakia, 21:00 Turkey)

League C Bulgaria – Cyprus

Time played GMT 19:30 (21:30 Bulgaria/Cyprus)

League C Switzerland – Ireland

Time played GMT 20:00 (20:00 Ireland, 21:00 Switzerland)

League C Bosnia and Herzegovina – Italy

Time played GMT 20:00 (21:00 Bosnia and Herzegovina/Italy)

League C Luxembourg – Portugal

Time played GMT 20:00 (20:00 Portugal, 21:00 Luxembourg)
Board 3 might be played later (21:30 GMT)

Today, Tuesday 23rd November 2010 will be the big starting day of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship leagues. 22 teams (almost 100 players) will start their clocks on Pandanet IGS server around GMT 19:00 or an hour or two later. See the schedule for the games below:

League A

Today’s early game at GMT 13:00 includes Ondrej Silt 6 dan (CZ) vs. Rob van Zeijst 7 dan (NL).

League B

Depending on the internet connection Board 1 of Austria vs Sweden plays at GMT+1 21:00

League C

To see the games, you need to have a registered Pandanet IGS account and to join the room EuropeanTeamChamp (36). You can sort the players there based on their country and find your favourites to follow.

Eight teams have already made a jump start, see the results below.

League A Russia – Hungary 3-1

League A Serbia – Ukraine 2-2

League B Denmark – Croatia 4-0

League B UK – Poland 1-3

The first matches of the PTEGC start on Sunday 21st of November!

Croatia vs Denmark GMT+1 20:00 (Board 3 GMT+1 21:00)

Board 1: Matej Zakanj 4d (maligo) – Kasper Hornbæk 5d (kash)
Board 2: Thomas Heshe 4d (daydreamer) – Slobodan Koncer 3d (Baffo)
Board 3: Vedran Vasiljevic 2d (Vaske) – Uffe Rasmussen 4d (Laudrup)
Board 4: Jannik Rasmussen 3d (JRDK) – Lovro Furjanic 2k (Lovro)

United Kingdom vs Poland GMT 20:00

Board 1:Matthew Macfadyen 6d – Kamil Chwedyna 4d (Kamil)
Board 2:Jon Diamond 4d – Habu Koichiro 4d (HabuKoichi)
Board 3:Andrew Kay 4d – Marek Kamiński 4d (Kamyk)
Board 4:Desmond Can 5d – Michal Parkola 2d (Udreka)

Slovakia has entered the tournament and taken the vacant slot in League C, which means there are 30 teams participating!

The first round of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship is planned for Tuesday November 23rd. The teams may agree to change the default date. Matches where the date is confirmed are blue.

League A

¹ Board one will play six hours earlier, i.e., 12:00 GMT

² Board one will play six hours earlier, i.e., 14:00 GMT+1.

League B

³ Board three will play one hour later.

League C

Today the website of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship has opened.

More content, like team presentation, results, tables, etc, will be added in the coming weeks.

If you are playing in the tournament, please register as soon as possible.