EGF Ing Cup 3-5 March 1995

Main tournament

Once every two years the EGF Ing-Cup tournament is staged in the European Go Cultural Centre. After a visit to Milan, the tournament is back in Amstelveen. Twenty-four preselected players will struggle for the European Ing Cup, which was won last year by Guo Juan from the Netherlands. The players come from thirteen countries. Special guest will be the talented young player John Lee, the winner of the American Ing Cup.

All games will be played according to Ing-rules.

This years line up will be:

Note 1: Gerald Westhoff replaces Shen Guanji
Note 2: Shen Guanji replaces Laurent Heiser

Main tournament results

From        : Rob Kok
Organisation: European Go Cultural Center
Newsgroups  : rec.games.go
Subject     : 6th EGF Ing Cup (results)
Date        : 6 Mar 1995 17:38:12 GMT
Catalin Taranu is the winner of the EGF ING Cup. Despite his loss in the last round against Shen Guanji he came first on SOS. In the fifth round he beat Macfadyen in an exciting game and took the sole lead. Four players ended on five points, they shared the prize money, which was 2000 US$ each.

The tournament saw some surprising results: European Champion Guo Juan lost to Zhang and Danek and took only fifth place. The European champion of 1993, Rob van Zeijst did even worse, he lost to Macfadyen, Shen and against Cioata in the last round.

John Lee, who got delayed by almost two days, because of a false bomb alarm on his plane, did very well. He won all his games. His first two forfeited games gave him half a point each, so he managed to share the first prize.

The side tournament was, surprisingly, won by Peter Zandveld (4d amsterdam). He beat favourite Frederic Donzet (5d Paris) in the third round, who finished second. 

 1 Taranu, Catalin       6d Buc  RO  15+  13+  10+  20+   2+   4-  5  21   16
 2 Macfadyen, Matthew    6d Lon  GB  22+  12+   4+   9+   1-  13+  5  20.5 15.5
 3 Lee, John             6d San  USA --   --   23+  19+  11+   7+  5  20   15
 4 Shen, Guanji          6d Fra  PRC  6+  23+   2-  17+   9+   1+  5  19.5 14.5
 5 Guo, Juan             6d Ams  NL   7-  14+   6+  10-  12+  11+  4  19.5 12.5
 6 Seailles, Jef         5d Par  F    4-  16+   5-  14+  17+  10+  4  19.5 10.5
 7 Zhang, Shutai         6d Lon  PRC  5+  19+   9-  18+  10+   3-  4  19   11
 8 Cioata, Daniel        4d Buc  RO  14+  10-  15+  11-  20+   9+  4  17   11
 9 Zeijst, Rob van       6d Tok  NL  16+  11+   7+   2-   4-   8-  3  24   10
10 Danek, Vladimir       5d Pra  CZ  18+   8+   1-   5+   7-   6-  3  23   10
11 Soldan, Leszek        6d War  PL  17+   9-  21+   8+   3-   5-  3  19.5 7.5
12 Gomenyuk, Andrei      5d Mos  RUS free  2-  17-  21+   5-  20+  3  17   5.25
13 Sakhabutdinov, Rostam 5d Kaz  RUS 21+   1-  20-  23+  19+   2-  3  17   5
   Rittner, Egbert       5d Ham  D    8-   5-  22+   6-  23+  18+  3  17   5
15 Pomstra, Willem Koen  3d Ens  NL   1-  18+   8-  16-  24+  19+  3  16   4
16 Boon, Mark            6d Ams  NL   9-   6-  18-  15+  21+  17+  3  15.5 6.5
17 Gillwald, Jens        4d Ham  D   11- free  12+   4-   6-  16-  2  19   3.25
18 Eeden, Gilles van     5d Nij  NL  10-  15-  16+   7-  22+  14-  2  18   5
19 Pop, Cristian         4d Buc  RO  20+   7-  24+   3-  13-  15-  2  17   2
20 Westhoff, Gerald      6d IGS  NL  19-  24+  13+   1-   8-  12-  2  16.5 3
21 Arnim, Felix von      4d Ham  D   13-  22+  11-  12-  16-  24+  2  13.5 2
22 Bogdanov, Victor      6d Pet  RUS  2-  21-  14-  24+  18-  23+  2  13   1
23 Janssen, Frank        6d Ams  NL  24+   4-   3-  13-  14-  22-  1  18   0
24 Amersdorfer, Johannes 4d Vie  A   23-  20-  19-  22-  15-  21-  0  12   0

Side Tournament and Youth Tournament

Supplementing this event a five round open tournament will be organized during the weekend (4-5 March). This tournament will run on the MacMahon system. Time limits are 1 hour per player and 15 seconds byo yomi. The games will be played according to Ing-rules. This means in particular that komi will be eight points. Furthermore the counting rules of Ing differ slightly from Japanese and Chinese rules. Before the start of the first round an instruction of the Ing rules will be given. This open weekend tournament is also sponsored by Mr. Ing. The first prize will be US$ 500.-.

The youth tournament will be held on Saturday from 11.00 till 17.00. The organization will be in the hands of the Ing European Go School and the Go Centre. Games are played on 13 by 13 boards using special Ing equipment. During the Youth Tournament the World Youth Goe Championship, organized in the Go Centre in July 1995, will be presented to the Dutch press.

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Private accommodation will be available if registered in advance.

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