The 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament

Preparations and negotiations of the 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament, which will be held on September 24-25 2011 are still underway. The 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament is kindly sponsored by Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Kaya Ozalit, Best Bilgisayar, Coffee O'Clock Turkey and İstanbul Lisesi as a European Go Cup Tournament.

For those who cannot or will not be participating, matches of the first board will be broadcast on KGS and EuroGoTV.

As we are always looking for new ways to enrich the tournament experience please feel free to contact us for any new ideas or any kind of input.

The preregistration period has ended. Thank you for your support and interest. The 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament is open to participation from all go players. All parties interested in participating that have not had the chance to preregister may register on the 23rd of September 2011 at 09:00 local time at the tournament venue.

Hyun-sub Kim (김현섭) 3 dan professional player of the Hankuk Ki-won will be attending the tournament. Please feel free to ask for commentaries and information from Kim Hyun-sub 3 Dan Pro during the tournament. We are also working out the details for workshops and seminars before and after the tournament (on the 23rd and 26th.)

The final list of participants is now available. Work and preparations for the 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament continues, please check back often as the tournament details are updated regularly.


Venue

Fındıklı Tournament Layout

This year's venue sponsor Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts has generously granted us access to their campus at Fındıklı, allocating the renovated and expanded canteen and Mimar Sinan Hall to our service. A partial map of Istanbul showing the location of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts Fındıklı Campus from google can be found here. Public transportation details and directions to and from the venue can be accessed via İ.E.T.T.'s site which is Istanbul's main public transportation provider.

You can get information on Istanbul including hotels, weather, maps and tips from the web sites below:

Transportation

Airplane

You can check the checkfelix web site for flights to Istanbul.

Train

There are trains from Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest and Budapest(connections from Munich and Vienna) to Sirkeci Station in Istanbul. Main services are:

  • Bosphorus Express: from Bucharest, daily
  • TransBalkan Express: from Budapest via Bucharest, daily
  • Prietenia Express: from Kischinev, daily
  • Balkan Express: from Belgrade via Sofia, daily
  • 1C 90/9 I: from Pythion via Thessalonica, daily (connection from Athens)
  • Istanbul Express: from Munich via Slovenia, Croatia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria

There are two main stations in Istanbul: Sirkeci Station on the European and Haydarpaşa Station on the Asian side. These historic station buildings are nostalgic gateways to the city. Both stations are well equipped with restaurants, newspaper kiosks, waiting rooms and ATMs.

Transfer from Airport to City Center

There are shuttles (Havaş) from airport to city center (Taksim Square) every half hour between 04.00 am and 01.00 am. The cost of the shuttle is €5. If you take a cab, it costs about €20, please note taxi fare depends on the traffic condition and a price range of €17~€25 is common. If you come by car, bus or train let us know your likely arrival time. We will inform you about the route to the city center.

Visa

Most European countries do not need visa to enter Turkey up to 90 days or they can obtain visa at the border. Please check the link below to see your country's status. If a visa is required please inquire your local Turkish embassy about the documents, fee and procedure. An invitation letter for visa application can be sent as required. If you require an invitation letter please include a note in travel details in the form below or contact us later.

Expected weather conditions

Will be available 5 days in advance.

For updates and further information please check http://www.dmi.gov.tr/.

Accommodation & Catering

To be announced shortly

We are still considering catering options during the tournament. There are also many options around the tournamet venue. Approximately €15 per day will be more than enough for standart meals throughout the day. Naturally, there are more luxurious therefore more expensive choices if you prefer.

We recommend participants to choose accommodation options around Fındıklı as it would be easier to get to the tournament site. Namely Beşiktaş, Sultanahmet and Taksim are in the vicinity. Hostels, which accommodate students and non-students alike, can be found and reserved through www.hostelworld.com or www.hostels.com. Higher class hotels like The Marmara, The Ritz-Carlton, Ceylan Intercontinental, Divan and The Hilton are situated near and around Taksim, which is 2.5 minutes away from the tournament site by funicular. More on hotels and reservation options can be found at www.istanbulshotels.com and www.booking.com


Tournament Rules

  • Head referree: Mehmet Emin Barsbey
  • Referrees: Serkan Solmazoğlu, Feyyaz Demir Saygın, Uğur Özkan
  • Pairing system: McMahon
  • Game rules: Japanese rule set, no handicap
  • Time: 60 min. + 25 moves / 10 min. byo-yomi
  • Komi: 6.5

As an EGF Super Tournament the 11th Istanbul International Go Tournament is bound by the following rules and regulations:

  1. EGF General Tournament Rules
  2. EGF Tournament System Rules

Tournament Schedule

Provisional.

24th September (Saturday)
09:00 - 09:30 : Finalization of registration
09:45 - 10:00 : Opening ceremony and announcement of pairings
10:00 - 12:30 : Round 1
12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch break
13:30 - 16:00 : Round 2
16:00 - 16:15 : Interim
16:15 - 18:45 : Round 3

25th September (Sunday)
10:00 - 12:30 : Round 4
12:30 - 14:30 : Lunch break
14:00 - 16:30 : Round 5
16:30 - 19:00 : Award ceremony and Finale


Prize

The tournament results will be submitted to the EGF as required by the EGF for European Go Cup Tournaments; thus all participants' results will effect their European Ranking. Points for the European Go Cup will also be granted to the respective winners. Please refer to the Go European Cup page for further details. All participants will receive a certificate of participation. The first three players will be presented with monetary prizes. The first five and players showing exceptional performance will also be awarded.

Also one of our prize sponsors Best Bilgisayar shall be presenting surprises.

The monetary prizes will be distributed as follows:

  • 1st place: €200
  • 2nd place: €100
  • 3rd place: €50

Registration

Preregistration deadline was September 16th 2011. Registration must be finalized on arrival or at least until 09:30 local time on the 24th of September.

Attention: Preregistration is not equivalent to registering. It is required that preliminary registrants finalize their registration strictly before mentioned deadline.

Since otherwise the proceeding of the tournament schedule will be compromised, participants that do not show up on time on the first day of the tournament without prior notice will be dropped from the tournament.


Entry Fee

The fee for the tournament has been set at €12 for preliminary registrants and €17 for on site registration. Preregistrants under the age of 18 can participate free of charge. The IBAN number of The Turkish Go Players' Association for european currency (€) is:
TR62 0006 4000 0024 2130 8164 62
Please include your name, surname and the notice: "11th Istanbul Go Open".

Entry fees
Normal €17
Preregistrants €12
Preregistrants under 18 free of charge

Preregistration

The preregistration period has ended. We thank all registrants for their support and interest.

Preregistration deadline was September 16th 2011.

Disclaimer: The entire responsibility for valid member status and correctness of the entry form rests solely on the entrant. The organization committee or its subsidiaries can not be held liable for loss, damages or failures of contact and correspondence rising from failure to fill in the form completely or correctly.

Contact Information
Player Information
Travel and Accomodation
Message and notes

Participants

The final list of preregistered players is below. The player information and rankings are based on their declarations. The organization comittee reserves the right to audit these details if such action is required (objections, mistakes etc.).

# Name Surname Rank City Country Stat* Club
All information pertaining to the entrants are based on their personal input.
The entire responsibility for validity of the above information rests solely on the entrant.
All pre-registrants are denoted with Pre.
UC denotes an unconfirmed application.
1 Milos Bojanic 5d Belgrad RS Pre Milentije Popovic
2 Ali Jabarin 5d Jaffa IL Pre -
3 Lazar Manojlovic 5d Kragujevac RS Pre GK Radnicki
4 Nikola Mitic 5d Nis RS Pre UGK Student
5 Mijodrag Stankovic 5d Nis RS Pre UGK Student
6 Dejan Krstic 4d Belgrad RS Pre Milentije Popovic
7 David Seibt 4d Berlin DE Pre -
8 Hüsrev Aksüt 2d Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
9 Mehmet Barış Albayrak 2d İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
10 Bertan Bilen 2d Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
11 Judith Conradi 2d Berlin DE Pre Go Verband Berlin
12 Özgür Değirmenci 2d Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
13 Giray Erdi 2d İstanbul TR Pre TGA
14 Kerem Karaerkek 2d Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
15 Hayri Kılıç 2d İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
16 Eren Kurter 2d Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
17 Yavuz Mester 2d İstanbul TR Pre -
18 Atilla Aktuna 1d İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
19 Hasan Tahsin Apakan 1d Ankara TR Pre Bilkent
20 Emre Bektöre 1d Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
21 Tolga Dinçer 1d İstanbul TR Pre -
22 Erdal İzmit 1d Kocaeli TR Pre Kocaeli
23 Adem Kayatepe 1d İstanbul TR Pre -
24 Özer Kırçak 1d İstanbul TR Pre -
25 Altan Kuntay 1d İzmir TR Pre goizm
26 Ali Yeşilçimen 1d Ankara TR Pre -
27 Gökhan Yıldız 1d Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
28 Erkan Karacaoğlu 1k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
29 Doğukan Sarıkaya 1k İzmir TR Pre GezGo
30 Uğur Yıldız 1k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
31 Barkın Çelebican 2k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
32 Semih Çokçeken 2k İzmir TR Pre igoku
33 Ergün Dündar 2k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
34 Kemal Gülbudak 2k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
35 Mustafa Morca 2k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
36 Semih Özbağ 2k İstanbul TR Pre -
37 Muammer Şimşek 2k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
38 Seçkin Boz 3k İzmir TR Pre İYTEGO
39 Gülçin Çakır 3k İzmir TR Pre İzmirGo
40 Caner Demir 3k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
41 Hakan Eryargı 3k İstanbul TR Pre -
42 Veysel Özbudak 3k Ankara TR Pre HÜGOKU
43 Alper Özmen 3k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
44 Aziz Pekdemir 3k İstanbul TR Pre -
45 Çağatay Tavşanoğlu 3k Ankara TR Pre HÜGOKU
46 Ender Tüccar 3k Kocaeli TR Pre Kocaeli
47 Deniz Yüksel 3k Kayseri TR Pre Kayseri
48 Yağız Ali Diri 4k İstanbul TR Pre -
49 Barış Kıyak 4k İzmir TR Pre goizm
50 Yalkın Yanık 4k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
51 Hüseyin Halil Acar 5k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
52 Yiğit Ömer Altıntaş 5k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
53 Salih Özkan Dursun 5k Balıkesir TR Pre İYTEGO
54 Çağlar Koca 5k İstanbul TR Pre EsGo
55 Fatih Köseoğlu 5k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
56 Cem Mutlugeldi 5k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
57 Rahman Pampal 5k İstanbul TR Pre -
58 Ercan Sağol 5k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
59 Damla Pınar Şengül 5k Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
60 Aykut Terzi 5k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
61 Onur Yumak 5k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
62 Halil İbrahim Gürel 6k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
63 Sami Güven 6k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
64 Seçkin Koralay 6k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
65 Kıvanç Özışık 6k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
66 Mehmet Taçalan 6k Ankara TR Pre -
67 Orhan Can Acar 7k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
68 Özlem Bayrak 7k Bursa TR Pre BursaGo
69 Tülay Feyzula 7k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
70 Tahir Kadiroğlu 7k Bursa TR Pre -
71 Ulaş Ören 7k İstanbul TR Pre İEL
72 Onur Altaylar 8k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
73 Serkan Aydın 8k Samsun TR Pre İYTEGO
74 Ahmet Ali Batı 8k İstanbul TR Pre -
75 Gamze Gül Çakır 8k Ankara TR Pre -
76 Ali Can Epözdemir 8k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
77 Musa Burak Erdihan 8k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
78 Kâzım Anıl Eren 8k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
79 Mehmet Sait Gülmez 8k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
80 Halil Deniz Kırlı 8k Kocaeli TR Pre Kocaeli
81 Ekin Küçüksönmez 8k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
82 Ozan Tanergeç 8k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
83 Gözde Taşkın 8k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
84 Güngör Yılmaz 8k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
85 Özlem Arslanoğlu 9k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
86 Ulaş Bedük 9k Ankara TR Pre TGA
87 Özgür Erdoğan 9k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
88 Zeynel Bilge Göze 9k İstanbul TR Pre -
89 Mehmet Kaptanoğlu 9k İstanbul TR Pre -
90 M. Çağlar Karakurt 9k İzmir TR Pre goizm
91 Kemal Karataş 9k İzmir TR Pre goizm
92 Ahmet Süheyl Kiriş 9k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
93 Ulaş Mısırlıoğlu 9k İstanbul TR Pre -
94 Filiz Öztürk 9k Ankara TR Pre -
95 Osman Tiriç 9k Manisa TR Pre goizm
96 Yağız Üstündağ 9k İzmir TR Pre goizm
97 Arda Yağan 9k Adana TR Pre DAG
98 Esra Yegül 9k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
99 Egemen Bayram 10k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
100 Merve Çağırıcı 10k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
101 Arzu Demir 10k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
102 Murat Evirgen 10k İzmir TR Pre igoku
103 Fırat Güner 10k Ankara TR Pre -
104 Figen Koyuncu 10k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
105 Görkem Pekmezci 10k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
106 Çağrı Sümer 10k Ankara TR Pre HÜGOKU
107 Onur Türkmen 10k Ankara TR Pre HÜGOKU
108 Uğur Tutar 10k İstanbul TR Pre EsGo
109 Enes Yıldırım 10k İstanbul TR Pre -
110 Gökhan Yurtber Karadağ 11k Ankara TR Pre AjiGo
111 Tildem Turan 11k İzmir TR Pre goizm
112 Sertaç Girgin 12k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
113 Reha Karataş 12k İstanbul TR Pre -
114 Ahmet Köksal 12k Ankara TR Pre HÜGOKU
115 Özgün Sakallı 12k İstanbul TR Pre -
116 Okay Sezgin Can 13k İstanbul TR Pre -
117 Duygu Koca 13k İzmir TR Pre goizm
118 Cansu Küçükköse 13k İzmir TR Pre İYTEGO
119 Kaan Öçal 13k İstanbul TR Pre -
120 Murat Cihan Sorkun 13k İstanbul TR Pre -
121 Başar Yegül 14k Bursa TR Pre BursaGo
122 Tuğba Bahat 15k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
123 Yeşim Dilek 15k Ankara TR Pre -
124 Ahmet Yetkin Eser 15k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
125 Mert Mungan 15k İstanbul TR Pre İstanbul Go Okulu
126 Ozan Murat Özfen 15k İstanbul TR Pre ---
127 Gizemnur Talas 15k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
128 Goncagül Yılmaz 15k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
129 Melda Karaşahin 17k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
130 Tolga Göze 18k İstanbul TR Pre -
131 Muhammed Safa Ünal 18k İstanbul TR Pre -
132 Barış Şannan 19k İstanbul TR Pre -
133 İnan Mayıs Aru 20k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
134 İklim Doğan 20k İstanbul TR Pre İEL
135 Selin Ercil 20k İstanbul TR Pre -
136 Şerafettin Mungan 20k İstanbul TR Pre -
137 Ozan Özkan 20k Eskişehir TR Pre EsGo
138 Gökhan Utku Özsaraçoğlu 20k İstanbul TR Pre -
139 Tutku Sağlam 20k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
140 Meltem Sarı 20k İstanbul TR Pre i_stanbul_go
141 Özgür Teke 20k İstanbul TR Pre -
142 Mevsim Çağan 21k İstanbul TR Pre -
143 Ahmet Emre Yalçınoğlu 21k İstanbul TR Pre -
144 Ömer Faruk Şahin 22k Ankara TR Pre ODTÜ
145 Yiğit Saygın Güçer 23k İstanbul TR Pre -
146 Burak Düzekin 25k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
147 Elif Kaya 27k İstanbul TR Pre -
148 Emre Akdoğan 30k İstanbul TR Pre -
149 Ufuk Aktaş 30k İstanbul TR Pre -
150 Ayşegül Özlem Bayraktar 30k İstanbul TR Pre -
151 Beril Karabatak 30k İstanbul TR Pre igoku
152 Polat Fevzi Dündar 2d İzmir TR UC goizm
153 İsmail Kaygun 1d Trabzon TR UC -
154 Türker Topcu 1k İstanbul TR UC PSK



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