16 pairs of male and female professional Go players who represent the Japanese Go world will play tournament games, and in the 4th round, the winning pair will be decided. Games from the 1st round to the semifinal round will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on February 10, and the final game will be played at the Nihon Ki-in on March 4.
Tournament Outline
Name : The Final of the 22nd LG Cup Korean Daily Newspaper King of Go
Date : February 5th (Mon.) , 7th (Wed.) & 8th (Thu.), 2018
Venue : Nihon Ki-in Headquarters (Tokyo, Japan)
Tournament Outline
Name : The 2nd IMSA Elite Mind Games [Pair Go]
Date/Venue : December14-15, 2017 / New Century Grand Hotel Huai’an (Jiangsu, China)
The 28th International Amateur Pair Go Championship
Tournament Outline
Name： The 28th International Amateur Pair Go Championship
Date： December 2 (Sat) – 3 (Sun), 2017
Venue： Hotel Metropolitn Edmont (3-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyodaku-ku, Tokyo)
Organizer： Japan Pair Go Association / The International Amateur Pair Go Championship Executive Committee
The 5th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship
Tournament Outline
Name： The 5th China-Korea-Japan Professional Pair Go Championship
Date： November 1 (Wed) – 2 (Thu), 2017
Venue： Anhui Province, China
Organizer： China Qiyuan, Anhui Province Sports Bureau, Hefei City People’s Government
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.
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.
Tournament Outline
Date ： August 12th (Sat) -13th (Sun), 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