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You can use it to practise a nice collection of Life & Death problems. There are always new collections which you can purchase using the internal Panda Coins currency. The app also features Panda Sensei, an AI which can solve any custom Life & Death situation for you better than top pros! The position just has to be contained to a closed region.

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Round1 – Final : All Results are here

[ Explanation of Championship ]
A five-round Swiss System tournament will be played by 32 pairs, made up of 31 pairs representing 20 overseas countries and territories and eight regions of Japan and the winning pair in the Pandanet Qualifying Tournament held by the Internet Go Salon Pandanet.
The International Championship and Japan Championship are combined as the International Amateur Pair Go Championship, and the highest ranked Japanese pair will be crowned the Japan Amateur Pair Go Champion.

[ Prizes ]
First Place : IAPG CUP, Certificate, Medal, Prize
Second Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
Third Place : Certificate, Medal, Prize
4th to 8th Place : Certificate, Prize
Best Japanese Pair : JAPG CUP, Medal, Prize

Tournament Outline

Organizer : The 21st Pandanet Cup Internet World Amateur Go Tournament
Organiser : Pandanet Inc.
Sponsorship : The International Go Federation
Special cooperation : World Pair Go Association

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The match for the 64th Oza title starts on October 17th.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Oza. and challenger is Yu Zheng Qi 7p. The match is best of five games, so three wins are required to secure the title.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game: October 17 (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+1.5.
• The second game: November 7 (Mon).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The third game: November 18 (Fri).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.
• The fourth game: December 8 (Thu).

• The fifth game: December 15 (Thu).

All rounds start at 10:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is three hours each.

Iyama Yuta Kept the Oza title!

The 41st 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.

How to watch

Schedule

• The first game : August 30th (Tue) and 31th (Wed).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The second game: September 14th (Wed) and 15th (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+Resign.
• The third game: September 20th (Tue) and 21st (Wed).
  Takao Shinji won, B+Resign.
• The fourth game: October 4th (Tue) and 5th (Wed).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The fifth game: October 12th (Wed) and 13th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, W+3.5.
• The sixth game: October 26th (Wed) and 27th (Thu).
  Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.
• The seventh game: November 2nd (Wed) and 3rd (Thu).
  Takao Shinji won, W+2.5.

Takao Shinji Won the Meijin title!

All rounds start at 09:00 (Japan Time), i.e., 02:00 CEST. The time limit is eight hours each.

Tournament Outline

Organizer ： The Korea Baduk Association
Cooperation ： World Pair Go Association, The China Weiqi Association, Nihon Kiin, The Chinese

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St.Petersburg Finals July 22-23, 2016

The 6th edition of the Pandanet Go European Teams Championship was held online on Pandanet Go Server from September 2015 till May 2016 where 34 national teams competed in 3 leagues.

Each team consist of max. 12 players out of which 4 players are selected to play in each round.

The final stage of this tournament was held in Azimut Hotel, St. Petersburg, Russia on july 22nd and 23rd , the same location as the 60th Polymetal EGC this year.

http://egc2016.ru/en/venue/address

The top 4 teams of the A-league who played the finals this year were Russia, Ukraine, Romania and France who qualified after the 9 rounds played online in the preliminary stage of this event.

The time settings for the games played in the finals were same as in the preliminary rounds with 1hour main time and 10min/25 stones byo-yomi.

On the 1st round of this tournament played on july 22nd Russia defeated France 3-1 and Ukraine defeated Romania 4-0.

The results of the 2nd round played in the morning of july 23rd were Russia vs Romania 3-1 and France vs Ukraine 2-2.

In the 3rd round Ukraine won vs Russia 3-1 and France won vs Romania 3-1

All the games played in the European Teams Championship were held at the 18th floor of Azimut Hotel which offered a great panoramic view of St.Petersburg city .

The winners of this edition were Ukraine team , well done and see you again in the finals next season !

PN	CY	PT	GW	GL	B1	B2	B3	B4
1	UA	5	9	3	2	3	2	2
2	RU	4	7	5	3	1	1	2
3	FR	3	6	6	1	1	2	2
4	RO	0	2	10	0	1	1	0

World Division-Preliminary

The Samsung Cup is a prestigious international Go competition held every year since 1996 and it’s one of the toughest Go tournaments as top class players from Korea, China , Japan , Taiwan and even amateurs can take part in the preliminary rounds and compete in the final stage to win attractive prizes of almost 300.000 us$ which makes it comparable with the major titles in Japan like Kisei, Honinbo and Meijin.

The official name of the tournament is The Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance World Masters Baduk.

The host of this big international event is Hankuk Kiwon ( Korean Baduk Association ) which is located in Seoul, S. Korea.

Usually the format of the Samsung Cup starts with a preliminary tournament where top pro players and top amateurs are invited to play in order to qualify for the last 32 players main event which is a Knock-Out tournament with best of 3 games played in the finals.

This year’s World Division preliminary rounds were held in S. Korea at Hankuk Kiwon from july 17 till july 20 and 1 player got the seat for the final stage of the tournament.

Among the 12 players who took part in the qualification there were 4 european players who joined as well: Ali Jabarin 1p from Israel, Pavol Lisy 1p from Slovakia, Mateusz Surma 1p from Poland and Cornel Burzo 6d from Romania.

All the games started at 1p.m ( local time in Seoul ) with 1 round/ day and time limits : main time 2 hours/ player and byo yomi 1min/5times

Only 8 players took part in the 1st round, including 3 of the Europeans.

The other 4 players got automatically seated in the 2nd round and played the winners from the first round .

1st round :

Ho Yang Fei (5d) – Cornel Burzo (6d)	0-1
Luciano Salerno (2d) – Manuel Velasco (6d)	0-1
Pavol Lisy (1p) –Karuehawanit Wichrich (4d)	1-0
Mateusz Surma (1p) – Khanh Lam Bui Le (5d)	1-0

2nd round:

Cornel Burzo (6d) – Eric Lui (1p)	1-0
Manuel Velasco (6d) – Ali Jabarin (1p)	0-1
Pavol Lisy (1p) – Andrew Huang (7d)	1-0
Mateusz Surma (1p) – Guang Chow (7d)	1-0

It was quite impressive that all 4 european players managed to get in the last 4 to compete for the seat in this Samsung Cup great event.

3rd round :

Cornel Burzo (6d) – Ali Jabarin (1p)	0-1
Pavol Lisy (1p) – Mateusz Surma (1p)	1-0

Final :

Ali Jabarin( 1p )- Pavol Lisy (1p )

1-0

Congrats to the winner of this year’s World Division Ali Jabarin 1p and let’s hope he will make a great performance in the Samsung Cup tournament along with top pros like Ke Jie 9p, the winner of this big event in 2015.

The 40th Gosei is being broadcast live on GoPanda2 client.

Defending champion is Iyama Yuta Gosei and challenger is Murakawa Daisuke 8p. The time limit is four hours each.

Schedule:

• The first game: June 25th (Fri). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The second game: July 18th (Mon). Iyama Yuta won, W+Resign.

• The third game: July 28th (Thu). Iyama Yuta won, B+Resign.

• The fourth game: August 17th (Fri).

• The fifth game: August 24th (Sat).

Iyama Yuta kept the Gosei title!

Tournament Outline

Date ： July 9th (Sat) -10th (Sun), 2016
Venue ： Shibuya Hikarie Hall
Organizer ： Japan Pair GO Association / World Pair Go Association /
　　　　　　Pair Go WorldCup 2016 Tokyo Executive Committee
Co-organizer ： its communications Inc.

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