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. 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 Kachanovskyi, 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 Mérő (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 Mérő, 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 Shevchuk	Cannes
2000	Ilya Shikshin	Mykola Gluschenko	Rita Pocsai	Sinaia
2001	Ilya Shikshin	Jan Prokop	Mykola Gluschenko	Ustron
2002	Andrii Kravets	Andrej Kashaev	Artem Kachanovskyi	Prague
2003	Ihor Zaitsev	Artem Kachanovskyi	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	Yurii Mykhaliuk	Nikita Khabazov	Roman Korolov	Mikulov
2009	Mikhail Sidorenko	Dmitri Miliukyn	Dmitrij Medvedev	Banja Luka
2010	Anson Ng	Alexandru Pitrop	Silvestru State	Sibiu
2011	Vladyslav Verteletskyi	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
2017	Ivan Klochikhin	Stefan Adrian Rotarita	Polina Krushelnytska	Grenoble
2018	Stefan Adrian Rotarita	Artemii Pishchalnikov	Artur Gimadiev	Kyiv
2019	Vsevolod Ovsiienko	Artemii Pishchalnikov	Alexej Igonin	Moscow
2020	Vsevolod Ovsiienko	Askar Khusainov	Egor Lavrov	Stubičke Toplice
2021	Vjacheslav Shpakovskij	Ruslan Tarasov	Artur Gimadiev	Internet
2022	Bende Barcza	Alper Sulak	Alexandru-Nicolas Patrascu	Prague
2023	Alper Sulak	Ryan Zhang	Bende Barcza	Ankara

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	Yurii Mykhaliuk	Sibiu
2011	Mateusz Surma	Vanessa Wong	Alexander Vashurov	Brno
2012	Yurii Mykhaliuk	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
2017	Oscar Vazquez	Valerii Krushelnytskyi	Kim Shakhov	Grenoble
2018	Arved Pittner	Solal Zemor	Savva Mezin	Kyiv
2019	Virzhinia Shalneva	Arved Pittner	Linh Vu Tu	Moscow
2020	Linh Vu Tu	Alexandr Muromcev	Davide Bernardis	Stubičke Toplice
2021	Alexandr Muromcev	Egor Lavrov	Vsevolod Ovsiienko	Internet
2022	Vsevolod Ovsiienko	Yuze Xing	Anna Melnyk	Prague
2023	Vsevolod Ovsiienko	Yuze Xing	Olesia Malko	Ankara

Under 18

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Venue
1996	Csaba Mérő	Svetlana Shikshina	Alexandre Dinerchtein	Băile Felix
1997	Dmytro Bohatskyi	Jonas Fincke	Paul Drouot	Bratislava
1998	Dmytro Bohatskyi	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	Prague
2003	Ilya Shikshin	Timur Dugin	Antoine Fenech	Cannes
2004	Ondrej Silt	Ilya Shikshin	Igor Nemliy	Cologne
2005	Timur Dugin	Bohdan Zhurakovskyi	Jun Tarumi - Igor Nemly	Kosice
2006	Ilya Shikshin	Rita Pocsai	Thomas Debarre	St Petersburg
2007	Artem Dugin	Dusan Mitic	Ondrej Fidrmuc	Zandvoort
2008	Artem Kachanovskyi	Thomas Debarre	Javier-A. Savolainen	Mikulov
2009	Ali Jabarin	Artem Kachanovskyi	Nikola Mitic - Viktor Lin	Banja Luka
2010	Mihai Serban	Roman Ruzhanskyi	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	Dominik Boviz	Palic
2017	Vjacheslav Kajmin	Grigorij Fionin	Anton Chernykh	Grenoble
2018	Sinan Djepov	Matias Pankoke	Elian_Ioan Grigoriu	Kyiv
2019	Anton Chernykh	Grigorij Fionin	Elian Ioan Grigoriu	Moscow
2020	Anton Chernykh	Sinan Djepov	Elian Ioan Grigoriu	Stubičke Toplice
2021	Oscar Vazquez	Arved Pittner	Savva Mezin	Internet
2022	Arved Pittner	Davide Bernardis	Denis Dobranis	Prague
2023	Denis Dobranis	Arved Pittner	Ufuk Emre Yıldırım	Ankara

See also

• European Go Championship
• European Pair Go Championship
• European Go Federation
• European Go Players