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🎉 Discover Go! – Beginner Evening 🎉

Curious about Go? Now’s your chance!
Join us on Thursday, 26th February, at Go7 for our second Discover Go! beginner evening.

Never played before? Played a bit but never joined the Vienna Go crowd? Perfect.
Expect a friendly, relaxed vibe - no pressure, no rankings, just games, learning, and good company!

And if you end up loving it (warning: very possible 😄):
⚫️you can jump into our regular club meetups, or
⚫️if you’re the studious type, join the Confucius Go course starting in March, organized by Konfuzius-Institut an der Universität Wien, led by our Go7 teachers
👉 More info coming soon: https://www.konfuzius-institut.at/kultur/kulturkurse/

Come try one of the world’s oldest board games and maybe discover your new favorite hobby 🖤🤍

🎉 Lanke Cup Weiqi Vienna Open GP Bonus C 🎉

🔥 Stanislaw Frejlak 2p looked unstoppable with a flawless 4/4 start... until the final round, when Ben0 7d/1p ended his winning streak. So the tables have turned and Lukas Podpera 7d won the tournament by SOSOS and took home 8 Grand Prix points🏆 (and the third title in GP tournaments this season, wow!)

So the winners are...
🥇 Lukas Podpera 7d – 8 GP points
🥈 Stanislaw Frejlak 2p – 6 GP points + a seat at the Grand Prix Finals!
🥉 Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia (7d/1p) – 4 GP points
🏅 4th: Tanguy Le Calve 1p – 2 GP points
🏅 5th: Oh Chimin 8d
🏅 6th: Schayan Hamrah 5d – 1 GP point

💃 Best female player: Lisa Mayer 1d

U18:
🥇Stjepan Medak 5d, 11th place
🥈Jan Komin 3d
🥉Matous Babka 5k
(also congrats to Xing Yuze 6d, who took 9th place but couldn't attend the prizegiving)

U12:
🥇Lilly Hu 1d
🥈Cherry Hu 4k
🥉Vera Neubauer 4k

🧠 64 players
🌍 18 countries

Huge congrats to all the players for fair play and intense games! 💥💫

The 4th round of the Lanke Go7 Cup is ongoing!
Lothar Spiegel is the current favourite with 3/3 wins. Can Stjepan Medak stop his streak? See their game: https://online-go.com/review/1436361
On the second board, Elian plays against Roko Crvelin https://online-go.com/review/1436362
Schayan is the 4th player in the top group with 2/3, playing with Huang Zihao on the third board.

See the standings here: https://go7.at/go7-cup/

Lanke Go7 Cup – Go-Klub Go7 Lanke Go7 Cup Rules and Tournament System Japanese rules, 6.5 komi 5 rounds, MacMahon system, no handicap (except in DDK vs DDK games, -2 handicap) EGF rated – class A Time settings: 45 min + 20 sec Fischer the tournament is a Qualification tournament for the Austrian Championship 2025 Participati...