3rd PGETC Season Starting
The new season – 3rd Pandanet Go European Team Championship 2012/2013 – is starting! We have 30 teams in three leagues again and full 9 rounds to be played in the Pandanet-IGS.
The first round of the League A will open the tournament on Tuesday 18th September, the matches starting 19:00 and 20:00 CET/CEST. See the first round pairings available in the Pandanet Team Championship site and join the audience.
However, there’ll be a jump start on Saturday 15th September, as Alexandre Dinerchtein, Russia and Amir Fragmin, Israel will play their game 14:00 CET/CEST (15:00 in Israel and 16:00 in Russia). The game will be breakfast vs. Wade, respectively.
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European Team Championship Schedule
Here is the complete and concise schedule of the 3rd Pandanet Go European Team Championship 2012-2013, the team captains have received their own calendar editions. The games will be played on Tuesdays around 18:00,19:00 or 20:00 CET/CEST depending on the countries in each match. If there are special requirements, games can be scheduled up to a week before the scheduled match day.
The tournament is run under Rule Set for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship and the games are rated as EGF C class games, except for those players who opted out. The season is ready to start and good luck to all 30 teams!
League A
| Round 1 | 18/9/2012 | Rus – Isr | Cze – Srb | Ukr – Hun | Fra – Swe | Rou – Ger |
| Round 2 | 9/10/2012 | Isr – Ger | Swe – Rou | Hun – Fra | Srb – Ukr | Rus – Cze |
| Round 3 | 6/11/2012 | Cze – Isr | Ukr – Rus | Fra – Srb | Rou – Hun | Ger – Swe |
| Round 4 | 27/11/2012 | Isr – Swe | Hun – Ger | Srb – Rou | Rus – Fra | Cze – Ukr |
| Round 5 | 8/1/2013 | Ukr – Isr | Fra – Cze | Rou – Rus | Ger – Srb | Swe – Hun |
| Round 6 | 5/2/2013 | Isr – Hun | Srb – Swe | Rus – Ger | Cze – Rou | Ukr – Fra |
| Round 7 | 5/3/2013 | Fra – Isr | Rou – Ukr | Ger – Cze | Swe – Rus | Hun – Srb |
| Round 8 | 9/4/2013 | Isr – Srb | Rus – Hun | Cze – Swe | Ukr – Ger | Fra – Rou |
| Round 9 | 30/4/2013 | Rou – Isr | Ger – Fra | Swe – Ukr | Hun – Cze | Srb – Rus |
League A/B Relegation games 28/5/2013
Finals 27-28/7/2013 Olsztyn, Poland
League B
| Round 1 | 25/9/2012 | Ned – Ita | Pol – Nor | Fin – Sui | Bel – Den | Gbr – Aut |
| Round 2 | 16/10/2012 | Ita – Aut | Den – Gbr | Sui – Bel | Nor – Fin | Ned – Pol |
| Round 3 | 13/11/2012 | Pol – Ita | Fin – Ned | Bel – Nor | Gbr – Sui | Aut – Den |
| Round 4 | 4/12/2012 | Ita – Den | Sui – Aut | Nor – Gbr | Ned – Bel | Pol – Fin |
| Round 5 | 15/1/2013 | Fin – Ita | Bel – Pol | Gbr – Ned | Aut – Nor | Den – Sui |
| Round 6 | 12/2/2013 | Ita – Sui | Nor – Den | Ned – Aut | Pol – Gbr | Fin – Bel |
| Round 7 | 12/3/2013 | Bel – Ita | Gbr – Fin | Aut – Pol | Den – Ned | Sui – Nor |
| Round 8 | 16/4/2013 | Ita – Nor | Ned – Sui | Pol – Den | Fin – Aut | Bel – Gbr |
| Round 9 | 7/5/2013 | Gbr – Ita | Aut – Bel | Den – Fin | Sui – Pol | Nor – Ned |
League B/C Relegation games 28/5/2013
League C
| Round 1 | 2/10/2012 | Svk – Cro | Svn – Esp | Irl – Prt | Tur – Kaz | Cyp – Bgr |
| Round 2 | 23/10/2012 | Cro – Bgr | Kaz – Cyp | Prt – Tur | Esp – Irl | Svk – Svn |
| Round 3 | 20/11/2012 | Svn – Cro | Irl – Svk | Tur – Esp | Cyp – Prt | Bgr – Kaz |
| Round 4 | 11/12/2012 | Cro – Kaz | Prt – Bgr | Esp – Cyp | Svk – Tur | Svn – Irl |
| Round 5 | 22/1/2013 | Irl – Cro | Tur – Svn | Cyp – Svk | Bgr – Esp | Kaz – Prt |
| Round 6 | 19/2/2013 | Cro – Prt | Esp – Kaz | Svk – Bgr | Svn – Cyp | Irl – Tur |
| Round 7 | 19/3/2013 | Tur – Cro | Cyp – Irl | Bgr – Svn | Kaz – Svk | Prt – Esp |
| Round 8 | 23/4/2013 | Cro – Esp | Svk – Prt | Svn – Kaz | Irl – Bgr | Tur – Cyp |
| Round 9 | 14/5/2013 | Cyp – Cro | Bgr – Tur | Kaz – Irl | Prt – Svn | Esp – Svk |
Invitatition to Teams
To: European Team Championship Teams,
The 3rd Pandanet Go European Team Championship will start soon, the first rounds to be played in September 2012. The previous two years have been very successful and the finals hard-fought and exciting. The format will be the same: League games played on the Pandanet IGS and the finals in the EGC 2013 in Olsztyn, Poland. We heartily invite all the teams to join the 3rd season 2012-2013.
The first step is to confirm your country participation in the league by Friday 31st August 2012.
League A: Russia, Czechia, Ukraine, France, Romania, Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Serbia, Israel
League B: Netherlands, Poland, Finland, Belgium, UK, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Norway, Italy
League C: Slovakia, Slovenia, Ireland, Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Spain, Croatia
Send the confirmation email as a reply to the email sent 22nd August to your country contact.
Your team lineup with the players’ name, rank and Pandanet account name is required by Sunday 9th September 2012.
The pairings for the season will be sent out 10th September and the first round (probably League A) will commence on Tuesday 18th September.
Wishing for a prompt reply,
Vesa Laatikainen, Project Leader
3rd Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Russia Wins Close Contest for the 2nd Pandanet Go European Team Championship Cup
The finals of the European Team Championship 2011/2012 edition were an exciting contest all the way to the last finished game. After initial draws on the first round, Ukraine beat France in the second round. The third round in the Sunday evening was going to be decisive: Ukraine, Russia and Czechia all striving for the top place.
Czechia won France 3-1, which wasn’t enough when Russia beat Ukraine with the similar score 3-1. The tiebreakers – match points, board points, mutual score – being all equal, the decisive fourth tiebreaker – league A position – brought the win to Russia and the second place for Czechia. Also, the decisive game between Ukrainian Artem Kachanovskyj and Russian Ilya Shikshin was the final game to finish and only the win by Ilya guaranteed the top place.
All results in the Finals page. The games will be uploaded when collected together.
European Team Championship Finals 21st and 22nd July 2012
The 2nd Pandanet Go European Championship will culminate in the final matches of the best four teams in 2011/2012 League A. The games will take place in the European Go Congress 2012 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany, on the first Saturday 21st July and the Sunday evening 22nd July. Teams from Russia, Ukraine, Czechia and France will resolve the championship in three rounds.
The tournament site is the Parksaal of the Bad Godesberg Municipal Hall. The opening ceremony will be held 10.15 am and the schedule for the rounds is listed below. Two games for each round will be broadcast by EuroGoTV in Pandanet-IGS. There will be also professional commentary for each game at the tournament premises. The commentators are Ms. Li Ting 1 dan (Kansai Ki-in) and Yoon Young-sun 8 dan (Hankuk Kiwon).
Round 1 – Sat 21 July 2012 10:30 CEST
Russia – France 2-2
Ukraine – Czechia 2-2
Round 2 – Sat 21 July 2012 14:30 CEST
Czechia – Russia 2-2
France – Ukraine 0-4
Round 3 – Sun 22 July 2012 18:30 CEST
Russia – Ukraine
Czechia – France
For the live broadcast, see the EuroGoTV accounts on Pandanet-IGS and for the results and recorded games the Finals page.
The players for each team are following (four players each round, one reserve player):
Russia
Ilya Shikshin
Alexandre Dinerchtein
Dmitrij Surin
Oleg Mezhov
Alexey Lazarev
Ukraine
Artem Kachanovskyj
Dmytro Bogatskyy
Andrij Kravec
Bohdan Zhurakovskyy
Dmytro Jacenko
Czechia
Ondrej Silt
Jan Simara
Jan Hora
Jan Prokop
Lukas Podpera
France
Thomas Debarre
Remi Campagnie
Benjamin Papazoglou
Frederic Donzet
Antoine Fenech
League A Final Round
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
Round 5 of Team Championship - League B
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.
Round 4 of Team Championship - League B
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.
Round 3 of Team Championship - League B
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.
Round 2 of Team Championship - League B
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.