Polish Go Championship

Poznan, 8 - 11 . 11 .2018

About the League

Every year, 8 best players compete for the title of Polish Champion. Top 4 players from previous championship are joined by the top 4 players from qualifications. This year, current champion - Stanisław Frejlak - had to hand over his spot in the competition to the next reserve player from qualifications.

Rules

System
Round-robin for 8 players
Game rules
japanese
Rounds
7 (max 2 games per day)
Komi
6,5 moku
Time
90 min + 60s byo-yomi
Referee
Grzegorz Sobański
Venue
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at AMU
Prize pool

Every participant of the League will receive prize award based on the number of won games. The best 3 players will also receive bonus prize related to achieved title.

Won games Prize
7 700 zł
6 500 zł
5 400 zł
4 300 zł
3 200 zł
2 150 zł
1 100 zł
0 100 zł

Bonus prize for title:

  • Polish Go Champion - 300 zł
  • First Runner-up - 200 zł
  • Second Runner-up - 100 zł

The rules are available at PSG website

Contact

Dawid Jurkiewicz, 697 524 783
Grzegorz Sobański, 609 533 118

Players

Leszek Sołdan
4 dan

Leszek Sołdan

2nd place in Polish Championship 2017

His sensei is Tozawa Akinobu 9p. For one year Leszek was studying as insei in Nihon Ki-In. His colleague at school were Yamashita Keigo, Kono Rin and Cho U.

15 times won Polish Championship and 13 times was second in years 1982 - 2017.

Has participated 13 times in World Amateur Championship, 3 times has participated in Korea Prime Minister Cup, twice in European Pair Go Championship (with Kasia Koenig and Kasia Mazurek).

Koichiro Habu
5 dan

Koichiro Habu

3rd place in Polish Championship 2017

2nd place in Polish Championship 2016

4th place in Polish Championship 2015

3rd place in Polish Championship 2014

4th place in Polish Championship 2012

Polish Champion 2005

2nd place in Polish Championship 2003

Marcin Majka
4 dan

Marcin Majka

4th place in Polish Championship 2017

3rd place in Polish Championship 2016

6th place in Polish Championship 2014

Polish Champion 2013

5th place in Polish Championship 2011

Polish Youth Champion 2010 (under 16)

Maksym Wałaszewski
2 dan

Maksym Wałaszewski

3rd place in qualifications

5th place in Polish Championship 2017

7th place in Polish Championship 2016

Dawid Jurkiewicz
2 dan

Dawid Jurkiewicz

4th place in qualifications

6th place in Polish Championship 2017

6th place in Polish Championship 2012

Youth Polish Champion 2012 (under 20)

Artur Chmielewski
1 dan

Artur Chmielewski

6th place in qualifications

First time in Polish Championship

Jan Frączak
1 dan

Jan Frączak

7th place in qualifications

7th place in Polish Championship 2017

Youth Polish Champion 2014 (under 20)

Diana Błaszczyk
1 kyu

Diana Błaszczyk

8th place in qualifications

First time in Polish Championship

Venue

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at AMU

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
Morasko Campus, ul. Umultowska 87
61-614 Poznan