NEWS

While you are all practicing social distancing, it might be nice to also practice some Go. This is why Lukáš Podpěra, who is also a guest teacher at JIGS, is now organizing the 2020 Corona Cup, played on KGS! The first few places and people with many wins can win both some prize money and… […]

This weekend, our permanent student Elian took 3rd place in the European Youth Go Championship U20 category held near Zagreb, Croatia. Congratulations! 🙂 Youngsam was also there as an official teacher! 🙂

We are very happy to announce our spring Camp this year! Actually, it will be two camps directly after each other, so we will have two weeks (April 4th to 18th) full of Go! You can come for both weeks, just one week, or also single days. You will be studying from 9am to 9pm […]

This weekend, many of our students went to Hamburg and participated in the “Mausefalle” tournament. Both 1st and 2nd place were taken by permanent JIGS students: Kim and Elian. Congratulations! 🙂 Our new permanent student Erik scored 4:1 in the tournament. Well done! 🙂Our guest student Hannah who visited us in our winter camp also […]

We were really happy to have Cho Eunjin, 7d, as our guest teacher at JIGS! It is a pity that you could only stay for 2 weeks. But we could anyway learn so much and hope to welcome you again some other time!Thank you so much! 🙂

We are happy to welcome Erik Weigert, 1k, from Germany! He is 17 years old started playing Go just two years ago. Impressive rank after such a short time! Erik will probably stay at JIGS for 1.5 years. We hope you will improve much and have a fun time here!

Today, our regular guest student at JIGS, Marianna, won a handicap tournament in Torun, Poland. She won 4 games and didn’t lose any game! Congratulations! 🙂 Our permanent student Vincent and another guest student from Poland, Julia, also participated in the tournament. Nice to see three of our students on one group picture! 🙂

We were extremely happy to have Andrii Kravets, 1p, from Ukraine as a guest teacher at JIGS for about a month! We all learned so much from you! Thanks for being here and you are welcome back any time! 🙂

This week, we made a whole elementary school play Go! It was so much fun to work with the kids 🙂 Instead of Nigiri, we did “Schnick, Schnack, Schnuck” to make it easier for them :p We want to thank everyone who helped with the organization! Especially Marijan, Vincent, Sebastian, Lena, and Tobias! This would […]

We are proud to announce that our guest student Oleg Nagornov, 3k, from Russia, took 1st place in the Moscow Children Cup 2019!The tournament had 4 stages spread over the year and this is the final result of all 4 stages. Congratulations! 🙂