European Youth Go Championship

The European Youth Go Championship (EYGC) is a championship for young players of the board game of Go. It is held annually, and first started in Băile Felix, Romania in 1996.^[1] Some winners of the various age groups, such as Diána Kőszegi, have since progressed to become professional Go players.

The championship was divided into two sections until 2010, when it was split into three age groups.

This event is where one can first see the future European Go leaders, such as Ilya Shikshin or Artem Kachanovsky, respectively first and second in the adult 2010 European Go Championship (EGC).

History

In its very first year, the U-18 group produced two noteworthy prize-winners: Csaba Mero (the section winner), and the future professional players Svetlana Shikshina (2nd place) and Alexandre Dinerchtein (3rd place).

Notable prize-winners

Other juniors went on to win senior tournaments.

The U-12 winner in 2000 and 2001, Ilya Shikshin, went on to win the adult European Go Championship, in 2007 and 2010.

Notable U-18 winners who progressed to greater things include Csaba Mero, Alexandr Dinerchtein (record 7-times-winner of the adult EGC) and Diána Kőszegi.

Awards

From 2010 onwards, these are split into 3 sections. They are for U-12s (players aged under 12), U-16s and U-18s.

Under 12

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Venue
1996	Antoine Fenech	Cosmin Mutu	Csaba Marton	Băile Felix
1997	Antoine Fenech	Vasilii Shvedov	Pal Balogh	Bratislava
1998	Ondrej Silt	Tommy Hollmann	Natalia Kovaleva	Cannes
1999	Natalia Kovaleva	Timour Dougine	Mykhailo Shechuk	Cannes
2000	Ilya Shikshin	Mykola Glischenko	Rita Pocsai	Sinaia
2001	Ilya Shikshin	Jan Prokop	Mykola Glischenko	Ustron
2002	Andrej Kravec	Andrej Kashaev	Artem Kachanovsky	Praha
2003	Ihor Zaytsev	Artem Kachanovsky	Miroslav Sos	Cannes
2004	Rafael Samakaev	Thomas Debarre	Amir Fragman	Cologne
2005	Mihai Serban	Joshua Chao - Oleg Kocherov		Kosice
2006	Joshua Chao - Mateusz Surma		Alexandre Matushkin	St Petersburg
2007	Toma Theodor	Chun-Yin Woo	Alexandre Vashurov	Zandvoort
2008	Jurij Mykhaljuk	Nikita Khabazov	Roman Koroljov	Mikulov
2009	Mikhail Sidorenko	Dmitri Miliukyn	Dmitrij Medvedev	Banja Luka
2010	Anson Ng	Alexandru Pitrop	Silvestru State	Sibiu
2011	Vladysl Verteleckyi	Stepan Popov	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Brno
2012	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Silvestru State	Valerij Kulishov	Saint Petersburg
2013	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Valerij Kulishov	Kim Shakhov	Budapest
2014	Oscar Vazquez	Denis Dobranis	Arved Pittner	Bognor Regis
2015	Denis Dobranis	Arved Pittner	Virzhinia Shalneva	Zandvoort
2016	Ioan Alexandru Arsinoaia	Virzhinia Shalneva	Nikita Prikarev	Palic

Under 16

This section was created in 2010 after the World Youth Go Championship altered the age categories under competition.

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Place
2010	Mateusz Surma	Vanessa Wong	Jurij Mykhaljuk	Sibiu
2011	Mateusz Surma	Vanessa Wong	Alexander Vashurov	Brno
2012	Yurii Mykhalyuk	Stepan Popov	Alexandru-Petre Pitrop	Saint Petersburg
2013	Stepan Popov	Silvestru State	Vjacheslav Kajmin	Budapest
2014	Alexandru-Petre Pitrop	Grigorij Fionin	Vjacheslav Kajmin	Bognor Regis
2015	Vjacheslav Kajmin	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Stepan Popov	Zandvoort
2016	Vjacheslav Kajmin	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Kim Shakhov	Palic

Under 18

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Venue
1996	Csaba Mero	Svetlana Shikshina	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Băile Felix
1997	Dmitri Bogatskii	Jonas Fincke	Paul Drouot	Bratislava
1998	Dmitri Bogatskii	Diana Koszegi	Martin Kuzela	Cannes
1999	Andrei Kulkov	Diana Koszegi	Merlijn KUIN	Cannes
2000	Diana Koszegi	Andrei Kulkov	Timur Dugin	Sinaia
2001	Pal Balogh	Diana Koszegi	Ondrej Silt	Ustron
2002	Pal Balogh	Timur Dugin	Oleg Mezhov	Praha
2003	Ilya Shikshin	Timur Dugin	Antoine Fenech	Cannes
2004	Ondrej Silt	Ilya Shikshin	Igor Nemliy	Cologne
2005	Timur Dugin	Bohdan Zhurakovsky	Jun Tarumi - Igor Nemly	Kosice
2006	Ilya Shikshin	Rita Pocsai	Thomas Debarre	St Petersburg
2007	Artem Dugin	Dusan Mitic	Ondrej Fidrmuc	Zandvoort
2008	Artem Kashanovsky	Thomas Debarre	Javier-A. Savolainen	Mikulov
2009	Ali Jabarin	Artem Kachanovsky	Nikola Mitic - Viktor Lin	Banja Luka
2010	Mihai Serban	Roman Ruzhansky	Laura Avram	Sibiu

Under 20

During the 2011 championship of Brno, it was mentioned "under 20" category instead of "under 18"

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Venue
2011	Pavol Lisy	Ali Jabarin	Lukas Kraemer	Brno
2012	Lukas Podpera	Alexander Vashurov	Alexander Eerbeek	Saint Petersburg
2013	Pavol Lisy	Ali Jabarin	Lukas Podpera	Budapest
2014	Lukas Podpera	Jonas Welticke	Tanguy Le_Calve	Bognor Regis (*)
2015	Pavol Lisy	Lukas Podpera	Tanguy Le_Calve	Zandvoort
2016	Grigorij Fionin	Stanislaw Frejlak	Dominic Boviz	Palic

See also

References