39th European Go Congress, Tuchola '95, Poland

On Saturday August 5 the 39th European Congress came to a finish. A total of 380 players participated over a fortnight. Over 300 players played both two weeks, all ten games. Winner with a perfect score (10-0) was Guo Juan (7 dan, NLD). Miyakawa Wataru (6 dan, JPN, living in Paris) took second place with only one loss against Guo Juan and Sumikura Yasuyuki (7 dan, JPN) finished third with 8 points, losing only to the first two. In the top group eight players finished on 7 points: Christoph Gerlach (5 dan, GER), Pierre Colmez (5 dan, FRA), Jef Seailles (5 dan, FRA), Matthew Macfadyen (6 dan, GBR), Matti Groot (4 dan, NLD), Vladimir Danek (CZE, 5 dan), Cas Muller (5 dan, NLD) and Mihai Biscai (5 dan, ROM).

Players with 9 points: R. Mihailescu (13 kyu, ROM), Zbigniew Koscinski (15k, POL)

Players with 8 points: Valentin Gheorghiu (2 kyu, ROM), Gabriel Popa (6 kyu, ROM), Vlad Popescu (8 kyu, ROM), Kirsten Hollmann (20k, NLD)

Players with 7 points: Torben Pedersen (1 dan, DEN), Carmen Mateescu (1 kyu, ROM), Klaus Sorensen (2 kyu, DEN), Gustav Fahl (4 kyu, SVE), Arnaud Knippel (6 kyu, FRA), Bogdan Castaliu (6 kyu, ROM), Henric Bersaker (6 kyu, SVE), Razvan Szilagyi (7 kyu, ROM), Marcel Kienappel (10 kyu, GER), Cyril Lassu (10 kyu, SQR), Markus Kienappel (13 kyu, GER) Dymitr Akushevich (15 kyu, RUS), Stefan Coitisor (16k, ROM), and Sabine Stueben (18 kyu, GER)

A lot of side events were organized:

Rapid Tournament
Winner was Sumikura Yasuyuki with 16-0
Weekend Tournament
Winner was Kai Naoyuki (6 dan, JPN) with 5-0, second Guo Juan (4-1)
13x13 Tournament
Dick Riedeman (3 dan, NLD) beat Lutz Franke (4 dan, GER) in the final
9x9 Tournament
Thomas Schmid (2 dan, GER) beat Andre Engels (1 dan, NLD) in the final
Lightning Tournament
Lucian Deaconu (5 dan, ROM) beat Bogdan Castaliu (6 kyu, ROM) in the final
Team Tournament
Little Gonzo (Enschede, NLD, Rudi Alderden, Taco Peters and Merijn de Jong) beat Shori (Bucharest, ROM, Adrian Ghioc, Dragos Bajenaru and Valentin Gheorghiu)
Rengo Tournament
443 (sorry, don't know who played in this team, I believe on of them was Ulrik Bro-Jorgensen, 4 dan, DEN) beat SENSEI (Saijo-sensei, 8 dan Pro, Jean Allard, 1 dan, FRA and Michel Zaltzman, 5 kyu, FRA)
Pairgo Tournament (sponsored by La La La)
Winning pair was Rob Kok (2 dan, NLD) and Guo Juan (7 dan, NLD-together 4 dan) with 5-0, four pairs had a 4-1 score: Jef Seailles (5 dan, Fra) and Rafaella Giardino (1 kyu, ITA), Adrian Ghioc (4 dan, ROM) and Carmen Mateescu (1 kyu, ROM) Karel Dach (3 dan, CZE) and Lenka Snepova (5 kyu, CZE), Stefan Lange (4 dan, GER) and Kirsten Hartmann (1 dan, GER). 21 pairs participated in the first group. Saijo-sensei played together with Anne Rasse (3 kyu, FRA), but only made 3 points.
The second group was won by Hodorogea/Ivascu (10 kyu, ROM) on SOS. Korthout/Bersaker (6 kyu, NLD/SVE), Claasen/Dita (6 kyu, NLD/ROM) Castaliu/Castaliu (10 kyu, ROM) and Razvan/Florea (9 kyu, ROM) also had four points.
Computer Tournament
Winner was `Star of Poland' by Janusz Kraszek, second was `TurboGo' by Arnoud Rutgers van der Loeff (NLD) (six programs took part)
Table Tennis Tournament
A Romanian (sorry forgot his name, maybe it was Lucian Deaconu) beat Janusz Kraszek (POL) in the final
Badminton Tournament
Wojciech Woskresinski (POL) beat Stefan Budig (GER) in the final
Football Tournament
Ajax 2 (Matti Groot, Jacob Hin, Erik Puyt, Rob Kok (all NLD), Kerem Karkearek (TUR), Stefan Budig (GER), Dominik Ryzko (POL) and Wu Zhao Li (8 dan pro, PRC) beat Titans (a Danish team) with 8-4 in the final
All in all the Congress was a great success. The atmosphere was great, the people were happy, the beer and wodka tasted very well and the weather was good.

Rob Kok