Welcome to the official page of the 22nd Istanbul International Go Tournament. The tournament will be held on the 30th of September and 1st of October.

This page will be updated regularly until the end of the tournament. Please consider following us through our social media accounts and rss for the latest. Updated on 2023-09-23, 9 new registrants.

Preregistration will be open until the 25th of September. Thank you for your interest and registering early to help the organization team.

Tournament Sponsors and Supporters

We are currently actively looking for sponsors, please contact us if you would like to sponsor the 22nd edition of the Istanbul Go Tournament.

The 22nd edition of the Istanbul Go Tournament is brought to you by the kind sponsorship of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Spor Istanbul for the venue, and organizational support of the Turkish Go Association

Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Logo with Spor İstanbul Logo

Venue

We strive to provide the best venue possible in every new installment of the Istanbul Go Tournament.
We are still in due process of negotiating the location of the venue…

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Fatih Spor Kompleksi will be the venue for this year’s edition of the Istanbul Go Open with the kind support and sponsorship of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Spor Istanbul.

For details about the venue: https://spor.istanbul/en/fatih-spor-kompleksi/

Address

Fatih Spor Kompleksi,

Karagümrük Mahallesi Kaleboyu Caddesi 111/A

Fatih/İstanbul

How to get there

Find and use the M1 metro line to Topkapi Ulubatlı Station. After disembarking and getting out of the station look for the sign with the Spor Istanbul logo (our sporsor) on it and follow the road for another 200m. The entrance will be on your right with a big blue gate that has the name Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Fatih Spor Kompleksi written on it.

Map

https://goo.gl/maps/JSK4g4ZqNyUWbhA29

Tournament Rules

Main Tournament Rules

  • Tournament Coordinator: Istanbul Go Players’ Association
  • Appeals Board: To be determined on the day of the tournament.
  • Head Referee: To be announced shortly…
  • Referees: To be announced shortly…
  • Pairing Operator: To be announced shortly…
  • Tournament system: McMahon
  • Game rules: Japanese rule set, no handicap
  • Time: 60 min. + 3 x 30 seconds Byoyomi
  • Komi: 6.5

As an EGF Tournament the 22nd Istanbul International Go Tournament is bound by the following rules and regulations:

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

Under 16 Tournament Rules

  • Tournament Coordinator: Istanbul Go Players’ Association
  • Appeals Board: To be determined on the day of the tournament.
  • Head Referee: To be announced shortly…
  • Referees: To be announced shortly…
  • Pairing Operator: To be announced shortly…
  • Tournament system: Swiss
  • Game rules: Japanese rule set, no handicap
  • Time: 30 minutes sudden death
  • Komi: 6.5

The U16 side tournament will be uploaded to the EGD as a C class tournament, hence it is bound by the same rules and regulations as the main tournament. Tournament is open to players born after the 30th of September 2007.

Tournament Schedule

Since the preparations are still under due process, please be informed that the below schedule is provisional and may be subject to change. (All listed times are Turkish local times: UTC+3)

September 30th (Saturday)
08:30 – 09:00 : Registration
09:45 – 10:00 : Opening Ceremony and Pairing
10:00 – 12:30 : Round 1
12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch Break
13:30 – 16:00 : Round 2
16:00 – 16:15 : Break
16:15 – 18:45 : Round 3

October 1st (Sunday)

Under 16 rapid tournament
08:30 – 09:00 : Registration
09:00 – 09:10 : Opening Ceremony and Pairing
09:15 – 10:15 : Round 1
10:20 – 11:20 : Round 2
11:25 – 12:25 : Round 3
12:30 Award Ceremony

Main Tournament continuation
13:00 – 15:30 : Round 4
15:30 – 15:45 : Break
15:45 – 18:15 : Round 5
18:30 – 18:45 : Award Ceremony and Finale

Prizes and Awards

Main Awards

Kindly sponsored by Spor İstanbul and the İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality, the first 3 players will receive the following:

  1. First Place — Cup and 125 EUR
  2. Second Place — Medal and 70 EUR
  3. Third Place — Medal and 30 EUR
  4. Fourth Place — Medal
  5. Fifth Place — Medal
  6. Fighting Spirit Special award — Medal

Secondary Awards

As a McMahon tournament The Istanbul Go Open also prepares many surprises and small prizes for well performing participants that have participated in all rounds and with a win record over 70%. We are currently working on sponsoring performance awards…

Registration and participation

Preregistration deadline is on the 25th of September. We would like to remind our participants that preparations are made based on the list of preregistered players. In the unlikely event of demand surpassing projections, preregistering players will have precedence over latecomers. The risks and liabilities arising from not registering prior to the preregistration deadline rest solely on the players.

Attention: Since it will not be possible to organize the tournament correctly and a timely manner, the participants not present at the tournament venue on the first day of the tournament without prior notice, will be dropped from the tournament. We kindly request registrees who will be absent to notify the organizing committee until 21:00 (UTC+3) on Friday, 29 September.

Registration Fee

Late registrants350 TRY
Non-member preregistrants250 TRY
Preregistered members100 TRY
Preregistered U1850 TRY
First tournament (No EGF record)50 TRY

Pre-Registration

Preregistration deadline is on the 25th of September. Thank you for your interest.

For ease and speed of communication and possible last minute changes a whatsapp group will be formed, we kindly urge you to participate in the group. The 22nd Istanbul Go Open whatsapp group will be deleted 1 week after the tournament ends.

Our venue sponsor has mandated that we refer and urge our participants to register on their site via https://online.spor.istanbul we will be collecting Turkish Citizen ID Numbers or Passport Numbers in order to coordinate our list of participants. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.


    If you have never attended a European Tournament and don't have an ID yet please leave blank. If you have an EGDPIN and know it please add it here for organizational convenience. If you don't know your ID please check here https://europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Find_Player.php .


    For Turkish Citizens it is your Turkish Citizen ID Number. For foreigners please provide your passport number. This is used to coordinate participant lists with our venue sponsor Spor İstanbul.


    Confirmation that your registration form was received will be sent to this address.


    For ease and speed of communication and last minute changes a whatsapp group will be formed, we kindly urge you to participate in the group. The group will be deleted 1 week after the tournament ends.

    Due to the venue's rules of use required by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, all players are required to create a membership through https://online.spor.istanbul at no cost.

    The Turkish Go Association has a yearly licensing fee for national non-member go players please choose the option that applies to you:

    Please note that sometimes the server may lag processing your data. Please be sure to get a confirmation that your form was submitted successfully. In case it you get an error message please review and resubmit your form.

    List of Registerees

    #Ad / NameSoyad / SurnameSeviye / RankGoRŞehir / CityÜlke Kodu / Country CodeKatılım / Participating inEGDPIN
    1DoğaçKöse3d2239İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514825052
    2AlperSulak2d2163AnkaraTRU16, 1. 2. 3. 4. 518701034
    3FatihSulak3d2266AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 512786081
    4VolkanBurç4k1652İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514098854
    5AliKulübecioğlu2k1879İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519250198
    6NikolaMitic7d2664NisRS1, 2, 3, 4, 510801923
    7DusanMitic7d2658NisRS1, 2, 3, 4, 510649507
    8StinaJohansson30k-900UmeaSE1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    9FatihKalayoğlu1k1898İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516501947
    10Sarp EgeYılmaz6k1262AnkaraTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 519233280
    11EnginYılmaz20k66AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519550058
    12AtakanÇal8k1290İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516537213
    13UğurArıkan3d2260İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517374423
    14AlicanOral5k1599İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517601364
    15ErdiÇoban1d2144İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517001798
    16ClaudeBrisson3k1557MarseilleFR1, 2, 3, 4, 513513291
    17ÖmerNaiboğlu3k1662İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519413075
    18ErtuğAkkol1d2147İstanbulTR1. 2. 3. 4. 510633920
    19Erkanİşçimen10k995İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519650136
    20ÇağatayTavşanoğlu1k1980AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 513650659
    21UlaşÖren4d2437İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516298832
    22SerapSüleymanoğlu2k1712İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517625938
    23Mehmet BarışAlbayrak1d2207İstanbulTR1. 2. 3. 4. 513749527
    24Mustafa KürşatElitok1d2087DenizliTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518598701
    25AliYeşilçimen2d2051İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515286018
    26HüsrevAksüt4d2422AntalyaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514649943
    27Etem KeremKaynar20k100İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4
    28YaseminUmar21k0AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520486367
    29UğurDoğan16k500TalasTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520413371
    30BeratÖnder5k1597EskişehirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516998751
    31AtakanErdem8k1283AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4. 519049294
    32DoğukanErgin9k1128İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519298059
    33Birand Adal3d2264AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515250015
    34ÖzgürOcak2k1880MuğlaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516562942
    35IrmakGüntav3k1777İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519237812
    36UgurTaşdelen5k1589AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518213250
    37Mehmet TunaÖzgür13k1013İzmirTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 520437362
    38TaylanBoztaş20k216AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519074495
    39KeremBerdibek11k728AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520174968
    40SefaAtar11k977AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520133487
    41HandeOlgar6k1318İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516901269
    42CerenYıldız15k537AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520186463
    43OğuzErdoğan7k1416İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520162956
    44Alpay CemreÇam1d1927İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518225273
    45NalanKayacan8k1324İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516249497
    46GüçlüYılmaz7k1379İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515098039
    47Özgürİşçimen1k1636İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519650136
    48ÖnderOrakoğlu4k1657EskişehirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517398271
    49Alp ErenNazlı8k1240İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520425053
    50VladimirMunteanu8k603BucharestROU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 520325305
    51SevalAltuğ1d2066İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515898542
    52Kadir DoğacanDoğan18k698İstanbulTR1. 2. 3, 4. 518050978
    53Mehmet AliGöktaş4k1535İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517601804
    54Dylan EgeTaviş20k-31İzmirTRU1613774541
    55BuğraYalçın10k854İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518086563
    56TuğkanEren4d2366İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515850538
    57HülyaEren2k1944İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516725918
    58MilošBojanić4d2412BeogradRS1, 2, 3, 4, 510337085
    59SemihBilki2k1626İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518698207
    60EmreAk3k1804İstanbulTR2, 3, 4, 519513329
    61AlperÖzmen3k1780İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514301628
    62SaadetEryılmaz3k1776İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 513662649
    63DušankaTodorović4k1658NišRS1, 2, 3, 4, 518533196
    64SerdarYılmaz1k1823İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 513749538
    65YılmazÇalık3k1584KonyaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514686243
    66KaanÖzkurt9k1263AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519662258
    67BilgeGöze3k1850İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515437840
    68EtkinÖzgan4k1659İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519513340
    69AlihanSüer17k408AnkaraTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 520198981
    70KeremÖzenir5k1562AdanaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514398637
    71ÖzlemÇelikkol8k1240BursaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514733598
    72AltanKuntay3d2357DenizliTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515025307
    73Kızıl KaplanGürses15k563İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 318550301
    74FatihDemiralay4k1676AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518662963
    75Can ErhanKöseoğlu14k644İzmirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520401370
    76BerkinGürcan1d2104DenizliTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518201249
    77VeyselÖzbudak2d2143AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515762571
    78Musa BurakErdihan3k1802İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515386657
    79SerhatTürktan19k256EskişehirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520413052
    80ServetDaşdemir1k1960İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517637367
    81ErenKurter2d2146AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 514274513
    82MuratDuran30k-900İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    83DorukCansev5k1560İstanbulTR1, 2, 320325569
    84OzanYanık20k100AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    85SelçukToker3k1942EskişehirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518450784
    86CanSargın14k700BalıkesirTR1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    87ErenDenktaş1k1805İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519649135
    88ArenDenktaş10k903İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520386608
    89BeyzaAlpay7k1275AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520149965
    90Doğukan BoraAlay3k1400AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519501713
    91Selim CemTatlıer23k248İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518762260
    92BerkeÜner1d2095İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518398193
    93EgeErgun12k911İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 519650961
    94FettahYaliçli3k1776İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518674106
    95Elena OtiliaTarita Cimpeanu11k966BucharestRO1, 2, 3, 4, 517662513
    96AzraAlzafer18k93İstanbulTRU1620333610
    97YavuzMester2d2090BerlinDE1, 2, 3, 4, 515262632
    98EgeKöse2d2122İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517401153
    99ElenaRobu20k-238BucharestRO1, 2, 3, 4, 518449706
    100NazYazıcı20k55İstanbulTR1, 2, 4, 519086628
    101Aşha AçinKanbolat8k1329İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 518301206
    102Koças KuzeyKanbolat8k1342İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 518598305
    103Albek DoğuKanbolat8k1303İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 518533306
    104Ahmet KemalÖkmen3k1769ÇanakkaleTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515413816
    105Zeynep GökçeKocataş20k109İstanbulTRU1620413470
    106MertÇetin25k-396İstanbulTRU1620462189
    107Mete AlpFidan22k105AnkaraTRU1620337614
    108SüheylKiriş3k1849İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515886079
    109Ayşe NilÖncel7k1194İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519286806
    110Alp KeremŞen18k315İstanbulTRU1620474465
    111Ayşe DenizArtuner11k909BursaTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515337872
    112KayaGüvercin20k101İstanbulTRU1620449473
    113MelisCiğer11k988İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 517586085
    114BaharDuransoy20k111İstanbulTRU1620498467
    115Deniz NedretKaragülle10k1148İzmirTR1, 2, 316250498
    116BerkBaşgöl2k1856İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518550290
    117UlaşÖnder3k1691ÇanakkaleTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515637391
    118LeylaKaşikci4k1770IstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516013932
    119İlbigeKılıç22k84İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 520349615
    120Orhan CanAcar3k1675İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 515649810
    121Ali KemalUygun4k1831İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 516462842
    122SimonCristi3k1800CoyhaiqueCL1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    123Ahmet EmirAydın12k866IstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 518586304
    124ErenAvşar16k296AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 520349032
    129DenizayDönder1k1977IstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519398379
    130KeremKaraerkek2d2160AnkaraTR1, 2, 3, 4, 510498576
    131MustafaUztürk9k898İstanbulTR1, 2, 3, 4, 518633208
    132TarıkÖzdemir4k1497AnkTR1, 2, 3, 4, 519898351
    133Alya GülayKuru21k-315İstanbulTRU1620313612
    134SarpÖztürk9k1114İstanbulTRU16, 4, 518537310
    135EnerÖztürk14k719İstanbulTR4, 519250209
    136İpekCerrahoğlu20k100İstanbulTRU16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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