Welcome to Pandanet!
Welcome to the Pandanet Internet Go Server, a great place for playing, watching, studying, and enjoying the game of Go on the internet. At any time, day or night, you can find hundreds of other players from all over the world and of all playing levels, from beginners to professionals. Whatever your ability, you can find opponents of similar skill to play with.
Championship matches for top professional events, including the Meijin, Honinbo, Kisei, Judan and Tengen titles, and the Professional Pair Go Championship are broadcasted live, along with great international tournaments like the Pandanet Go European Team Championship, all for free.
On Pandanet this and the next Weeks
| Thursday November 5 |
Kansai-Kiin: The 12th Sankei Professional-Amateur Tournament final, Murakawa Daisuke 8p.vs. Seto Taiki 7p. |
| Thursday November 12 |
63rd Oza title match, 2nd game, Murakawa Daisuke Oza vs. Iyama Yuta 9p. Live broadcast on GoPanda2 |
63rd Oza Title Match
The match for the 63rd Oza title starts on October 20th.
Defending champion is Murakawa Daisuke Oza. and challenger is Iyama Yuta 9p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.
Schedule
- The first game: October 20 (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+0.5.
- The second game: November 12 (Thu).
- The third game: November 19 (Thu).
- The fourth game: December 3 (Thu).
- The fifth game: December 10 (Thu).
All rounds start at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.
Kansai Kiin live broadcasts
Pandanet is broadcasting weekly matches from Kansai Kiin.
Monday November 2: The 12th Sankei Professional-Amateur Tournament Preliminary round final, Ha yoniru 6p.vs. Andy Liu 1p (USA). Result: Andy Liu won, B+2.5.
Wednesday November 4: The 41th Gosei title, Preliminary round A, Yukawa Mitsuhisa 9p.vs. Yo Seiki 7p. Result: Yo Seiki won, W+Resign.
Wednesday November 4: The 12th Sankei Professional-Amateur Tournament Qualifying round 1, Ishi Akane 2p.vs. Onoda Takuya 2p. Result: Ishii Akane won, W+Resign.
Thursday November 5: The 12th Sankei Professional-Amateur Tournament final, Murakawa Daisuke 8p.vs. Seto Taiki 7p.
Server maintenance on 9th November!
The Pandanet Internet Go Server will undergo scheduled maintenance on
9th November 2015, from 19:00 to 24:00 UTC.
Users still active by this time will be disconnected and ongoing games will be stored without affecting disconnection limits. They can be resumed within 15 days.
Net Social Plaza will also be unavailable during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The 40th Meijin title match
The 40th Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.
Champion is Iyama Yuta Meijin. The challenger is Takao Shinji 9p. The match is best of seven games, so four wins are required to secure the title.
The Meijin tournament is organized by Asahi Newspaper Co., Ltd.
Schedule
- The first game : September 3rd (Thu) and 4th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
- The second game: September 17th (Thu) and 18th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+0.5
- The third game: September 24th (Thu) and 25th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign
- The fourth game: October 5th (Mon) and 6th (Tue). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
- The fifth game: October 13th (Wed) and 14th (Thu).
- The sixth game: October 28th (Wed) and 29th (Thu).
- The seventh game: November 4th (Wed) and 5th (Thu).
Iyama Yuta kept the Meijin title!
All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.
59th European Go Congress report
The 59th European Go Congress was held in Liberec, Cz. Republic a touristic city located in the north of the country close to the border with Germany and Poland and it was probably the biggest European Go event as it gathered more than 900 participants from 44 countries with over 700 players attending the main event.
For more details about the venue please see
http://www.egc2015.cz/venue
Like every Go Congress the European Go Championship was one of the most important tournaments organized here and this year EGF implemented a new system (http://www.egc2015.cz/rules/championship)to decide the winner of the European Go title who was Fan Hui 2p from France.
http://egc2015.cz/results/main/playoffs
Besides the European Go Championship there were many side events taking place in the 2 weeks of the Go Congress:
The Main tournament won by Wang Zheming 3p
http://egc2015.cz/results/mainwall
The Rapid tournament won by Chan,Yi-Tien 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/rapidwall
The Lightning tournament won by Kim Young-Sam 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/lightning/playoffs
The 9×9 tournament won by Chan Yi-Tien 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/9×9/playoffs
Omikron Rengo European Championship won by Surma-Frejlak-Domanski
http://egc2015.cz/results/rengowall
The Beer Tournament won by Karaerkek Kerem 2d
http://egc2015.cz/results/beerwall
The Children tournament won by Mezin Savva 5kyu
http://egc2015.cz/results/childrenwall
The Ladies tournament won by Sun Sai 5d
http://egc2015.cz/results/ladieswall
The Weekend tournament won by Kim Young-Sam 7d
http://egc2015.cz/results/wallweek
The Pairgo tournament won by Gong/Qiu 5d
http://egc2015.cz/results/pairgo/playoffs
The Veterans tournament won by Mizuuchi Chihiro 4d
http://egc2015.cz/results/veteranswall
The Team tournament won by Ze?t Riddle
http://egc2015.cz/results/team/playoffs
13×13 tournament won by Sun Sai 3d
http://egc2015.cz/results/13×13/playoffs
Just before the European Go Congress the 5th edition of
Pandanet Go European Team Championship finals was held in Liberec as well on july 24-25th 2015
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/draw/46
The winner of the team championship this season was France
For photos about the congress you can visit the official site at
http://egc2015.cz/photos
Let’s hope all the players had a great time and good games during the stay in Liberec, Czech Republic and will look forward for the next European Go Congress. Till then see you online on Pandanet-IGS for training games.
Written by Cornel Burzo