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.
Games schedule on Pandanet
| Friday September 1- Monday October 16 |
The 16th World Students GO OZA Championship Applications |
| Tuesday September 12- Monday October 2 |
The 22nd Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament Final Rounds |
| Tuesday September 12 |
The 42nd Meijin title match September 12 (Wed) – September 13 (Thu) Live Broadcasts |
| Thursday October 5 |
AI Goodwill Match – Pair Go World Championship 2017, Click here to watch Youtube The video is to be uploaded at 10am o Oct 5 (Japan time) The commentator is Michael Redmond. (in English) |
| Thursday October 5 |
Pair Go World Championship 2017 MASTERS MATCH Click here to watch live streaming |
AI Goodwill Pair Go match
The video is to be uploaded at 10am o Oct 5 (Japan time)
The commentator is Michael Redmond. (in English)
The human pair (Yimin&Iyama and Yu&Ke) can discuss freely and we consider them as one person.
Their partner is DeepZenGo.
Please see this page for details.
http://www.pairgo.or.jp/pgwc/2017/ai/index_e.htm
The 16th World Students GO OZA Championship
We are pleased to announce that we are going to hold the 16th World Students Go Oza Championship from Feb 19 to Feb 23 in 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
To select 16 students to proceed the championship in Tokyo, we are going to have preliminary round on the Internet.
University/College students under the age of 30 can participate in the preliminary rounds. We would like as many students as possible to participate in the Internet tournament using Pandanet-IGS.
The application deadline is Oct 16th.
Please, also let your young friends know about this tournament!
Thank you for your support in advance. If you have any questions, please send an email to world.sgo.oza@gmail.com.
Kansai Kiin live broadcasts
Pandanet is broadcasting weekly matches from Kansai Kiin.
Thursday September 7: The 61st Kansai Kiin Championship, 3rd game, Round 1, Yuki Satoshi Champion vs. Yo Seiki 7p
Wednesday September 6: The 44th Tengen title, Preliminary round A, Murakawa Daisuke 8p vs. Aragaki Syun 9p. Result: Murakawa Daisuke won, B+Resign.
Wednesday September 6: The 43rd Gosei title, Preliminary round A, Final, Sakai Hideyuki 8p vs. Seto Taiki 8p. Result: Seto Taiki won, B+2.5.
Pair Go World Championship 2017 MASTERS MATCH
Tournament Outline
Name： Pair Go World Championship 2017 MASTERS MATCH
Date： October 5th (Thu), 2017
Venue： Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel （26-1 Sakura-gaoka-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo）
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / World Pair Go Association /
Pair Go World Championship 2017 Executive Committee
The 42nd Meijin title match
The 42nd Meijin title is broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.
Champion is Takao Shinji Meijin. The challenger is Iyama Yuta Kisei. 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 : August 30th (Wed) and 31st (Thu).
Takao Shinji won, W+0.5. - The second game: September 12th (Tue) and 13th (Wed).
- The third game: September 21st (Thu) and 22nd (Fri).
- The fourth game: October 2nd (Mon) and 3rd (Tue).
- The fifth game: October 16th (Mon) and 17th (Tue).
- The sixth game: October 23rd (Mon) and 24th (Tue).
- The seventh game: November 1st (Wed) and 2nd (Thu).
All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.