The Sense go robot is another amazing resource for making the game more popular. Since the English speaking version appeared last year, it is to be expected that more functionality will be available later this year.
Here in Vienna, they have a Chinese version, which already has additional training resources available.
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The Round 8 of the 8th European Pro Qualification 2025 shall start at 10:15 AM (CET).
The pairings are:
Ashe Vazquez 7d (b) vs. Remi Campagnie 6d (w)
Matias Pankoke 6d (b) vs. Viktor Lin 6d (w)
Lucas Neirynck 6d (b) vs. Dominik BovĂz 6d (w)
Jonas Welticke 6d (b) vs. Yuze Xing 6d (w)
Benjamin Teuber 6d (b) vs. Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 7d (w)
Vsevolod Ovsiienko 6d (b) vs. Lukas Podpera 7d (w)
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The parings of Round 9 (of 11) of 8th European Pro Qualification:
Lukas Podpera 7d (b) vs. Ashe Vazquez 7d (w)
Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 7d (b) vs. Vsevolod Ovsiienko 6d (w)
Yuze Xing 6d (b) vs. Benjamin Teuber 6d (w)
Dominik BovĂz 6d (b) vs. Jonas Welticke 6d (w)
Viktor Lin 6d (b) vs. Lucas Neirynck 6d (w)
Remi Campagnie 6d (b) vs. Matias Pankoke 6d (w)
More details and current standings with links to all games:
https://eurogofed.org/proqualification/index_2025.html
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Thank you for the broadcast and the effort of all volunteers. I am enjoying it very much and I am constantly impressed by the quality of play.
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It means that games are played on AI IZIS Boards, which are connected to the IZIS server. There is a script developed by Joerg which is enabling the transmission of any IZIS game to the Online Go Server and/or Pandanet IGS.
Here in Vienna, we assembled seven AI IZIS Boards, replacing at least 4 human scribes (we do not have such resources), to broadcast all games from Pro Qualification Round Robin tournament (11 rounds, 6 games per round), and one game from the European Pro Championship (7 rounds, 3 games per round). The last two games from the European Pro Championship are transmitted by one top go player.
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Oh so a single person scribes two games from the Euro Pro Championship simultaneously? You have to be a strong player to do that, Iâd be scared to miss a move if I tried to do that.
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The penultimate 10th round of the European Pro Qualification Tournament is starting at 10:15 CET.
The pairings with links to the games:
Lukas Podpera 7d (b) vs. Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 7d (w)
Lucas Neirynck 6d (b) vs. Remi Campagnie 6d (w)
Jonas Welticke 6d (b) vs. Viktor Lin 6d (w)
Benjamin Teuber 6d (b) vs. Dominik BovĂz 6d (w)
Vsevolod Ovsiienko 6d (b) vs. Yuze Xing 6d (w)
Ashe Vazquez 7d (b) vs. Matias Pankoke 6d (w)
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Ben0 is new pro! Congratulations to him, and commiserations (again) to Lukas.
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The 11th and final round of 8th European Pro Qualification tournament starts at 15:15 CET (in 15 minutes).
The pairings with the links to OGS games (automatic transmission from AI IZIS boards):
Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 7d (b) vs. Ashe Vazquez 7d (w)
Yuze Xing 6d (b) vs. Lukas Podpera 7d (w)
Dominik BovĂz 6d (b) vs. Vsevolod Ovsiienko 6d (w)
Viktor Lin 6d (b) vs. Benjamin Teuber 6d (w)
Remi Campagnie 6d (b) vs. Jonas Welticke 6d (w)
Matias Pankoke 6d (b) vs. Lucas Neirynck 6d (w)
The tournament table with clickable links to all games from the tournament:
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If Ben0 loses the last round and Lukas wins the last round, they both have 8 points. Will the game between them (which ben0 won) be the tie-breaker?
Edit: Never mind, I misinterpreted the results table.
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Ben already has 9 wins.
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According to my book, Ben0 is having 9 points (out of 10 games), and it cannot happen. Since Remi lost his game as well, Ben0 became Ben1(p).
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Why was he called Ben0?
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I believe it is the abbreviation of his very long name and family name, which is quite hard to pronounce or write correctly: Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia.
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IIRC, Benjamin has Algerian roots (I think I remember him waving an Algerian flag during some ceremony of the 2019 EGC in Brussels).
In that case, perhaps he can be considered the first African pro.
Edit: I could find some support for my memory (a picture from the French team celebrating winning the European Team Championship in 2019):
Benjamin is 2nd from the left, and the flag bunched up in his right hand looks like the Algerian flag (Tanguy on the left is holding a Brittany flag, which I assume is where his roots lie).
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If we start considering roots instead of nationality, itâs going to be a real mess. The world is full of mixed roots.
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Canât we just conclude that we are all earthlings?
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I donât know if he has mixed roots or if he has a double nationality or not. All I know is that he has publicly shown some pride of Algeria, as Tanguy did for Brittany.
Whatever pride someone may have doesnât matter much though. You can personally be proud of your X roots, that doesnât make you X from that perspective.
If heâs bi-national that would be different of course.
Iâm trying to say that if (for example) he turns out to be a Berber from Algeria who migrated to France as a child (perhaps with his parents, and perhaps he was later naturalised in France), he could rightfully be considered the first African pro.
Itâs not hugely important, but it might be nice to note for historical records.