European Go Championship

In Prague, Alexandre Dinerchtein won against Cătălin Țăranu in the 5th round.[8]

In Frascati, Alexandre Dinerchtein lost against the 2001 Champion Andrei Kulkov in the 6th round.

Svetlana Shikshina won the title.[9]

In Villach, Ilya Shikshin[10] won the title, despite losing to Alexandre Dinerchtein in the 8th round.

In Leksand, Ondrej Silt from the Czech Republic beat Cătălin Țăranu in Round 4. In Round 5, Alexandre Dinerchtein won against the 2006 Champion Svetlana Shikshina. Cătălin Țăranu beat the 2007 Champion Ilya Shikshin in Round 8. The 5-dan Go professional Cătălin Țăranu became the second Romanian player to become European Go Champion.[11]

In Groningen, the young 5-dan Thomas Debarre from France defeated Cătălin Țăranu in Round 4. In round 5, the 3-times European Champion from the Netherlands, Rob van Zeijst, lost against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Round 9 saw victory by the 2008 Champion Cătălin Țăranu against Alexandre Dinerchtein. Alexandre Dinerchtein remained ahead on tiebreak to win the title,[12] his seventh time as European go Champion.

In Tampere, as a first act of the championship, Cornel Burzo from Romania beat the reigning champion, the Russian professional Alexandre Dinerchtein.[13] Cătălin Țăranu won against Rob Van Zeijst in the 3rd round. The fourth round featured a very long game between Taranu and Ilya Shikshin. These two players were undefeated since the beginning of this year's competition. Shikshin finally won the game, to continue his consecutive victories (6 winning rounds).

The young Artem Kachanovskyi from Ukraine stopped the winning ascension of Shikshin at the seventh round. The next rounds were a fight for the title for these two players. Kachanovskyi led first by beating Csaba Mérő at the 8th round, and the 2009 European Youth Champion, Ali Jabarin, in the 9th round, but he lost his final game against Kim JungHyeop, a Korean player. Shikshin won the title by beating Cristian Pop in the 8th round and Dinerchtein in the final round. During this tournament, the two leaders won games against Korean players. This is the second European title for Ilya Shikshin.

The Championship was held at the "University of Bordeaux I" campus in Talence, from July 23 to August 6. The number of registered players exceeded the 800 expected players, meaning already that European Go is healthy. These amateur players were from all European countries, ranked from 30 kyu to 7 dan, professional players from Asia will also participate (e.g. Japan, China and South Korea).[14] The French hosting organisation was the Fédération française de go (FFG).[15] The pre-registration board showed the participation of previous champions and possible future title-holders such as:

• Cătălin Țăranu
• Ilya Shikshin
• Svetlana Shikshina
• Alexandre Dinerchtein
• Artem Kachanovskyi
• Cristian Pop

This edition also accommodated the first Pandanet Go European Team Championship, a new competition where Romania, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine will try to obtain the first title.

As a side-event, a professional competition was held - some games of the China Weiqi League were played.

Yumi Hotta, Hikaru no Go-writer, attended for a conference during the event.

The EGC is reliant on generous international sponsorship. For the third consecutive year, Zhuyeqing Tea - the official sponsor of the Chinese national Go team - are the main sponsor of the Congress.[16]

The 2012 EGC was held by the river Rhine, in the municipal hall of Bonn-Bad Godesberg, from 21 July to 4 August 2012.[17]

Olsztyn in Poland was the host for the 2013 Congress.[18]

The 2014 EGC was held in Sibiu, Romania, a former European Capital of Culture.[18]

The 2015 EGC was held in Liberec, Czech Republic.[18]

The 2016 EGC was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[18]

The 2017 EGC was held in Oberhof, Germany with the highest number of participants in history.[18]

The 2018 EGC was held in Pisa, Italy.[19]

The 2019 EGC was held in Brussels, Belgium.[20]

In both of these years, the EGC did not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Championship was held online in its place.

The 64th EGC took place from the 23rd July – 7th August in Vatra Dornei, Romania.[21]

The 65th EGC took place from the 22nd July – 5th August in Markkleeberg, Germany.[22] It had 751 registered participants.[23]

From 1984, the Championship became open, allowing participants from outside Europe. This attracted strong players from China and Korea, who have regularly finished in the top spots. Until 2010, the highest finishing European national would be declared "European Champion", with the highest finisher of the tournament being declared "European Open Champion"; the latter title was often won by Korean nationals.

From 2011 onwards, the tournament format was changed. The tournament now consists of 7 rounds of MacMahon, followed by a 3-round single elimination knockout between the top 8 eight European nationals. The winner of this knockout is declared European Champion; the player with the most wins after 10 rounds is declared European Open Champion.

Year	Winner	2nd	3rd
1984	Tay-You Hong ( South Korea)	Jong-Su Yoo ( South Korea)	Matthew Macfadyen ( United Kingdom)
1985	Ronald Schlemper ( Netherlands)	Matthew Macfadyen ( United Kingdom)	Pierre Colmez ( France)
			André Moussa ( France)
1986	Ronald Schlemper ( Netherlands)	Frank Janssen ( Netherlands)	Donzet Frederic ( France)
			Egbert Rittner ( West Germany)
1987	Matthew Macfadyen ( United Kingdom)	Alexei Lazarev ( Soviet Union)	Donzet Frederic ( France)
			Rob Van Zeijst ( Netherlands)
1988	Tibor Pocsai ( Hungary)	Kazuki Hondo ( Japan)	Ronald Schlemper ( Netherlands)
1989	Toshiyuki Sogabe ( Japan)	Matthew Macfadyen ( United Kingdom)	Chikako Nakamura ( Japan)
1990	Rob Van Zeijst ( Netherlands)	Shu-Tai Zhang ( China)	Hans Pietsch ( West Germany)
1991	Shu-Tai Zhang ( China)	Alexei Lazarev ( Soviet Union)	Juan Guo ( China)
1992	Takashi Matsumoto ( Japan)	Wataru Miyakawa ( Japan)	Shu-Tai Zhang ( China)
1993	Rob van Zeijst ( Netherlands)	Naoyuki Kai ( Japan)	Juan Guo ( China)
1994	Juan Guo ( Netherlands)	Guangji Shen ( Germany)	Manfred Wimmer ( Austria)
1995	Juan Guo ( Netherlands)	Wataru Miyakawa ( Japan)	Yasuyuki Sumikura ( Japan)
1996	Juan Guo ( Netherlands)	Rob van Zeijst ( Netherlands)	Hyuk Lee ( South Korea)
1997	Hyuk Lee ( South Korea)	Wataru Miyakawa ( Japan)	Juan Guo ( Netherlands)
1998	Hyuk Lee ( South Korea)	Robert Mateescu ( Romania)	Franz-Josef Dickhut ( Germany)
1999	Alexandre Dinerchtein ( Russia)	Ion Florescu ( Romania)	Dmitrij Surin ( Russia)
2000	Hyuk Lee ( South Korea)	Alexandre Dinerchtein ( Russia)	Pei Zhao ( Germany)
2001	Andrei Kulkov ( Russia)	Kiyoshi Fujita ( Japan)	Christoph Gerlach ( Germany)
2002	Alexandre Dinerchtein ( Russia)	Dmytro Bohatskyi ( Ukraine)	Mykhailo Halchenko ( Ukraine)
2003	Seul-Ki Hong ( South Korea)	Bi Jang ( South Korea)	Sung-Kyun Park ( South Korea)
2004	Kwang-Sun Young ( South Korea)	Alexandre Dinerchtein ( Russia)	Cătălin Țăranu ( Romania)
2005	Alexandre Dinerchtein ( Russia)	Seok-Bin Cho ( South Korea)	Jong-Wook Park ( South Korea)
2006	Chi-Seon Park ( South Korea)	Ki-Bong Lee ( South Korea)	Svetlana Shikshina ( Russia)
2007	Seok-Ui Hong ( South Korea)	Jong-Wook Park ( South Korea)	Seok-Bin Cho ( South Korea)
2008	Jong-Wook Park ( South Korea)	Seok-Ui Hong ( South Korea)	Yu-Cheng Lai ( Taiwan)
2009	Eun-Kuk Kim ( South Korea)	In-Seong Hwang ( South Korea)	Joon-Sang Kim ( South Korea)
2010	Ilya Shikshin ( Russia)	Artem Kachanovskyi ( Ukraine)	Chae-Lim Kim ( South Korea)
2011	Young-Sam Kim ( South Korea)	Ilya Shikshin ( Russia)	Cătălin Țăranu ( Romania)
2012	Jun-Hyup Song ( South Korea)	Young-Sam Kim ( South Korea)	Jan Simara ( Czech Republic)
2013	Hui Fan ( France)	Antti Tormanen ( Finland)	Pavol Lisy ( Slovakia)