03-28

The European Toyota-PandaNet tour visited Paris, France. It's the final tournament of this year's European tour. The tournament was won by Fan Hui, a Chinese 2p living in Toulouse, France with a perfect score of 6 points. All rounds were covered live on IGS. Some game records are available from GoBase.org. 

 03-20

The European Toyota-PandaNet tour visited Velden, Austria. The 2nd but last tournament of this year's European tour (Paris will be the grand final). All rounds were covered live on IGS with live commentary by Yuki Shigeno,2p during the 2nd round game. Some game records are available in SGF format from GoBase.org. 

 03-19

The 5th preliminary round of the Pandanet Open Professional and Amateur Internet World Go Championship has finished. Besides 15 professionals just one mystery guest is left: RoseDuke. The game records are available in SGF format from GoBase.org. The 6th round is played the 2nd of April on IGS-PandaNet. 

 03-18

Lee ChangHo [kr] also takes the 3rd and final game in the best-of-three title match for the 5th Chunlan title against Zhou Heyang [cn], thus winning the match and taking back home the beautiful cup. 

 03-17 29th Kisei title

Title holder Hane Naoki [jp] wins the 7th game and thus the title by beating challenger Yuki Satoshi [jp] by 4.5 point for the 29th Kisei title. It has been an extremely close and exciting match hopefully leaving the Kansai fans of Yuki a little happy. 

 03-17

The title match for the 43rd Judan is all even again when O Rissei stayed cool in a huge exchange in the center leaving challenger Cho Chikun behind with a handfull of points. Next game: 7th of April. 

 03-16

Lee ChangHo [kr] evens the score in a fast-paced game against Zhou Heyang [cn]. Since the Chunlan is a best-of-three, the final game (19th of march) will now decide all. 

 03-14

In an extremely close game Zhou Heyang [cn] ends up on the right side of the balance and takes the lead against Lee ChangHo [kr] in the title match for the 5th Chunlan Cup. Next game: 16th of march. 

 03-12

In the 4th round of the Pandanet Open Professional and Amateur Internet World Go Championship the professionals show no mercy to the amateurs. Except for a few mystery players from China and Japan, all amateurs exited silently. The game records are available in SGF format from GoBase.org. The 5th round is played the 19th of March on IGS-PandaNet. 

 03-10

The drawing for the 4th round of the Pandanet Open Professional and Amateur Internet World Go Championship has been published. Check it out and see against whom your favorite professional will play the 12th of March. The 4th round is played on IGS-PandaNet. 

 03-10 29th Kisei title

Title holder Hane Naoki [jp] wins the 6th game against Kansai Ki-in's Yuki Satoshi [jp] in the match for the 29th Kisei title. So we will go all the way this year. The 7th and final game (16th of march) will now decide all. 

 03-09

Koyama Terumi, 5p is the new Women's Meijin after beating title holder Kobayashi Izumi, thus becoming the 17th Women's Meijin and making it the 4th time in her career. 

 03-05

And then it's suddenly all decided in the 5th Ing Cup. Chang Hao [cn] wins the 4th game against Choi CheolHan [kr] in the best of 5 title match. But Choi is still very young so we will see more of this highly talent player soon. 

 03-03

Chang Hao [cn] goes into the lead against Choi CheolHan [kr] in the best of 5 title match for the 5th Ing Cup played in Seoul, Korea. Next game: 5th of March. 

 03-03

The title match for the 43rd Judan took off in a promising fashion. In a tight game challenger Cho Chikun showed his endgame skills by pulling off a close win against title holder O Rissei. Next game: 17th of March. 

 03-02

Koyama Terumi, 5p evens the score in the 17th Women's Meijin title match. Title holder Kobayashi Izumi, Meijin was not able to force a decision with the black stones. The 3rd game will now be all deciding.