NEWS

Day 1 Today in the afternoon we started our first ever JIGS beginner camp for children, really exciting for all of us! The first “event” was some ice-cream to get everone in the right mood :p But after that, we started studying really seriously. We are so proud of all of you, you were so […]

We are very happy to announce the our next intensive training camp for this winter! It will actually be two camps: from December 20th to December 25th, and from December 27th to January 1st! Of course, it is possible to stay for both weeks as well. 🙂 There will be a lot of studying, playing […]

The last weeks we were working hard on a new and larger project: From next Monday on, each Monday always at 8.30pm Central European (Summer) Time, we will have Go News in English streamed live on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/jenainternationalgoschool It is supposed to always last 30min, including Go News from the world (who won which tournament, […]

We are very proud that 4 of our teachers are playing in the main round of the European Championship this week: Andrii Kravets (vs Lucas Neirynck), Stanisław Frejlak (vs Anton Chernykh), Lukáš Podpera (vs Ben Dréan-Guénaïzia), and Lukas Krämer (vs Ali Jabarin) will all be playing on either Thursday or Friday. We wish them all […]

Yesterday evening, JIGS had its first match in the Bundesliga Season 2020/21, against the strongest opponent of the group: Berlin Slaugherlake. JIGS won the match with 3:1 overall, congratulations! 🙂 Youngsam on board 1 won and finished first. Stanisław on board 2 won by killing a big group of his opponent.On board 3, Elian was […]

We are very exited to start the next Season in the German Bundesliga. And our first match will already be very decisive: we play against Berlin Slaughterlake, the strongest team in the group! So if we can win this game, we will have very good chances to get 1st place in the group afterwards! 🙂 […]

Last weekend, the very competetive Pardoubice Tournament was dominated by JIGS teachers! Our head teacher Youngsam Kim got 1st place. Congratulations! 🙂 Also our guest teachers achieved great results: Stanisław Frejlak from Poland got 2nd place and Lukáš Podpěra from the Czech Republic got 5th place. Well done, JIGS is proud of you! 🙂 Following […]

Today our student Erik turned 18, Congratulations, JIGS wishes you all the best! 🙂 We had birthday songs in English, German, Romanian, Polish, and Croatian! 😮 Our JIGS group chat added yet another few languages, have a look!

We are very exited to announce that this autumn we will hold two JIGS camps specifically for young children (U12)! The first one will be held from October 11 to October 18, the next one from October 18 to October 25. We will have a great program. Of course, there will be a lot of […]

We are very happy to announce a special exchange tournament we will be having in the next few week: Jena International Go School will compete with a selection of Chinese Go kids. They range from 8-19 years old and are between 6k and 2d (European rating). The first game will be played between Hannah Hebsacker […]