The 6th Istanbul Go Tournament ended

The 6th Istanbul Go Tournament has ended we thank you for your interest and participation. The walllist table can be found here.


The 6th Istanbul Go Tournament

We invite all Go players to the International Istanbul Go Tournament organized by the Turkish Go Players Association which will be marking its 6th anniversary this year. The Istanbul Go Tournament will have some important differences this year. Foremost, with the sponsorship of Japan Foundation and support of the Nihonki-in, Japanese professional player Hideki Enda (9p) will be present at the Tournament. Another "first" of the tournament will be the support of a sponsor -IDéEFIXE. The Tournaments main sponsor IDéEFIXE will be hosting a stand for the retail of Go equipments and books at the tournament.We are looking forward to a broader participation from home and abroad.


Venue

Istanbul Anatolian Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School
Ballroom
Nispetiye Caddesi
Koç Köprüsü Yanı
Etiler/Beşiktaş/İSTANBUL

Phone #: (+90 212) 352 21 00

Expected weather conditions

Estimated temperature: daytime 20-22°C, night 14-15°C
Mostly cloudy, chance of showers.


Tournament Rules

  • Pairing system: McMahon, no handicap
  • Game rules: Japanese rule set
  • Time: 45 min. + 10/5 move/min. byo-yomi
  • Komi: 6.5

Prize

The tournament results will be submitted to the EGF thus all participants' results will count for the European Ranking. All participants will receive a certificate of participation. The first five players will be presented with prizes.

Monetary prizes have been set as:

  • 1st place: 250€
  • 2nd place: 150€
  • 3rd place: 100€
  • 4th place: 75€
  • 5th place: 50€

Courtesy of IDéEFIXE.


Registration

Preregistration is urged and recommended due to organizational conveniences and smooth proceeding of the tournament schedule. Registration will be finalized on arrival or in the morning of the first day between 08:30 - 09:15 local time. Players arriving later than 09:15 will not be registered.

Attention: Preregistration is not equivalent to registering. It is required that preliminary registrants be on site and finalize their registration strictly before mentioned deadline. Since otherwise the proceeding of the tournament schedule will be compromised registration of preliminary registrants that do not show up on time will be dropped.


Preregistration

Participants are expected to register beforehand via mail. Preregistration deadline is October 1st 2006. Please include the following:

Subject field should read: [Registration] 6th Istanbul Go Tournament

  • Name:
  • Surname:
  • City:
  • Country:
  • Club:
  • Rating:
    (please provide a reference for your rating (eg. EGF, KGS..) if you don't know or not sure designate as: "N/A")
  • Accommodation options:
    (if you would like for us to arrange for a hotel since our capacity with IAOTML is limited it is strongly recommended that you reply.)
  • Notes:

Please note that to avoid any inconvenience it is required to keep the subject and message format as presented.

Entry Fee

The entry fee is 25YTL (13€) per person, for pre-registrants it has been set at 20YTL (10€). The IBAN number for european currency is: TR62 0006 4000 0024 2130 8164 62.

Participants

Name Surname Rank GoR
Relevant GoR's were taken from this list which was last updated on 21.09.2006.
Milos Bojanic 5 Dan 2431
Kerem Karaerkek 2 Dan 2156
Fatih Sulak 1 Dan 2201
Mehmet Albayrak 1 Dan 2137
Ertuğ Akkol 1 Dan 2081
Emre Bektöre 1 Dan 2051
Adem Kayatepe 1 Dan 1883
Mert Sağlam 1 Kyu 1844
Erkam Gürbüzel 1 Kyu 1833
Atilla Aktuna 1 Kyu 1750
Selçuk Tunç 1 Kyu 1636
Sercan Oruç 2 Kyu 1821
Hasan Tahsin Apakan 2 Kyu 1741
Murat Bozacıoğlu 2 Kyu 1700
Serdar Yılmaz 2 Kyu 995
Bertan Bilen 3 Kyu 1487
Tolga Dinçer 3 Kyu 1436
Ahmet Sümen 3 Kyu
Özer Kırçak 4 Kyu 1647
Thomas Gaebler 4 Kyu 1593
Emre Yalçınkaya 4 Kyu 1548
Ahmed Doğan 4 Kyu 1489
Tolga Göksoy 4 Kyu 708
Ozan Can Dönertaş 5 Kyu 1707
Volkan Yıldırım 5 Kyu 1324
Giray Erdi 5 Kyu 1172
Bener Bozkurt 5 Kyu 307
Alp Erdem Engincan 6 Kyu 1503
Çağatay Tavşanoğlu 6 Kyu 1382
Deniz Kutluay 6 Kyu 1340
Şebnem Gürbüzel 6 Kyu 1328
Türker Özşekerli 6 Kyu
Katsuaki Mitani 7 Kyu 1749
Saadet Eryılmaz 7 Kyu 1667
Barkın Çelebican 7 Kyu 1477
Utku Üzülmez 7 Kyu 1169
Ferhat Barış 7 Kyu 1163
Seda Kalaç 7 Kyu 1012
Belgin Dinç 8 Kyu 1264
Ergün Dündar 8 Kyu 1212
Eren Kurter 8 Kyu 1020
Emre Duman 9 Kyu 1376
Çağlar Uzunca 9 Kyu 1017
Erdem Akpınar 9 Kyu
Gülçin Çakır Özşekerli 9 Kyu
Ayşegül Yalçınkaya 10 Kyu 720
Alper Özmen 10 Kyu 595
Alper Ülkü 10 Kyu 539
Mehtap Çakırgöz 10 Kyu 392
Ozan Vural 10 Kyu
İrem Erman 10 Kyu
Charles Emmanuel Frenoy 11 Kyu
Meral Yurtseven 11 Kyu
Nihan Bora 12 Kyu
Onur Cem Yılmaz 13 Kyu 185
Bilal Kandemir 13 Kyu
Uğur Özkan 13 Kyu
Levent Kömürcü 14 Kyu 541
Volkan Burç 15 Kyu 614
Mert Aydoğdu 15 Kyu
Serap Çoban 15 Kyu
Özlem Bayrak 16 Kyu
Zeynep Dündar 17 Kyu 300
Esra Yegül 17 Kyu
Mahir Duman 17 Kyu
Eren Yalın 18 Kyu
Kerem Özenir 19 Kyu 379
Fatih Bıkmaz 19 Kyu
Özgür Akın 19 Kyu
Sami Güven 20 Kyu
Özer Akçınar 23 Kyu
Aycan Gülez 25 Kyu
Baran Çakır 25 Kyu
Batuhan Çetin 25 Kyu
Ömer Ali Acerol 25 Kyu
Talha İşsevenler 25 Kyu
Elif Kırçuval
Erdinç Yılmaz
Mustafa Fatih Bakır
Süleyman Duran  
Tansel Oktay
Volkan Yaşayan  

Accommodation

Istanbul Anatolian Hotel Management and Tourism Vocational High School has been arranged for bed & breakfast at a daily rate of: 30YTL (16€) per person. The hotel requires that payment be made in cash at check-in.

Location can be seen via google earth from here.


Tournament Schedule

7 October (Saturday)
08:30 - 09:15 : Finalization of Registration
09:45 - 10:00 : Opening ceremony and announcement of pairings
10:00 - 12:00 : 1. Round
12:00 - 13:30 : Lunch break
13:30 - 15:30 : 2. Round
15:30 - 15:45 : Interim
15:45 - 17:45 : 3. Round

8 October (Sunday)
10:00 - 12:00 : 4. Round
12:00 - 13:30 : Lunch break
13:30 - 15:30 : 5. Round
15:30 - 15:45 : Interim
15:45 - 17:45 : 6. Round
17:45 - 18:30 : Award ceremony and Finale




Links to other sites

- TGOD
- EGF
- IGF

Sponsors
and Support

 Nihon ki-in logo
 ideefixe logo