Welcome to the official page of the 5^th Boğaziçi Go Tournament.
The tournament will be held on the 17-18^th of May 2025.

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 2025-04-29, 6 new registrants.

Preregistration deadline is the 12^th of May. We hope to see you soon and thank you for your interest.

Tournament Sponsors and Supporters

We are currently actively looking for sponsors, please contact us if you would like to sponsor the Boğaziçi Go Tournament.

The 5^th edition of the Boğaziçi Go Tournament is brought to you with the organizational support of the Turkish Go Association and the kind sponsorship of the Doğuş University.

Venue

We strive to provide the best venue possible in every new installment of the Boğaziçi Go Tournament.

Doğuş University Çengelköy Campus will be the venue for this year’s edition of the Istanbul Go Open with the kind support and sponsorship of the Doğuş University.

For details about the venue: https://www.dogus.edu.tr/iletisim/yerleskeler

Address

Doğuş Üniversitesi Çengelköy Campus,

Bosna Blv No: 140, 34680

Üsküdar/İstanbul

How to get there

Map

https://maps.app.goo.gl/4FgXN7p6e2FtmDn88

Tournament Rules

Tournament Coordinator: Istanbul Go Players’ Association Board of Directors
Appeals Board: Will be determined on site
Head Referee: To be announced
Referees: To be announced
Pairing Operator: Barkın Çelebican,
Tournament system: McMahon
Game rules: Japanese rule set, no handicap
Time: 40 minutes main time with 20 seconds increment per move, Fischer
Komi: 6.5

As an EGF Tournament the 5^th Boğaziçi Go Tournament is bound by the following rules and regulations:

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)

May 17^th (Saturday)
10:00 – 10:30 : Meeting and preparations
10:30 – 12:30 : Round 1
12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 : Round 2
15:30 – 16:00 : Break
16:00 – 18:00 : Round 3

May 18^th (Sunday)
10:15 – 10:30 : Meeting and preparations
10:30 – 12:30 : Round 4
12:30 – 13:30 : Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:30 : Round 5

Prizes and Awards

Main Awards

First Place — 2000 TRY
Second Place — 1250 TRY
Third Place — 750 TRY

Secondary Awards

As a McMahon tournament The Boğaziçi 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 80%.

4/5 wins or more: Work in progress…

Registration and participation

Preregistration deadline is the 12^th of May.

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 registrants who will be absent to notify the organizing committee until 21:00 (UTC+3) on Friday, 16^th of May.

Registration Fee

Preregistered Turkish Association members: 150 TRY
Other Preregistered players: 300 TRY
No registration: 450 TRY
Under 18: 150 TRY
First tournament ever: 150 TRY

Pre-Registration

Preregistration deadline is the 12^th of May. Thank you for your interest. We would like to see you at the tournament or in our next event.

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 5^th Boğaziçi Go Open whatsapp group will be deleted 1 week after the tournament ends.

Name (*)

Surname (*)

EGDPIN

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 .

Rank (*)

City (*)

Country (*)

E-mail (*)

A confirmation e-mail will be sent to this address with your details.

Telephone (*)

Will only be used for urgent communication during the tournament.

Referrer

How did you hear about the tournament? Who told you about us?

Notes

In which rounds are you planning to play please choose ALL that apply(*)
1. Round – Saturday2. Round – Saturday3. Round – Saturday4. Round – Sunday5. Round – Sunday

I hereby confirm that I’ve read the Turkish Go Association (TGOD) Tournament Rules and other regulations mentioned above and I pledge to abide by the mentioned rules, regulations and referee directives.

I hereby consent to being added to the whatsapp group for the tournament for urgent announcements and notifications. I hereby accept that should I chose to leave the group, I will be fully responsible for any and all liabilities that may arise from my absence from the group.

List of Registerees

#	Ad / Name	Soyad / Surname	Seviye / Rank	GoR	Şehir / City	Ülke Kodu / Country Code	Katılım / Participating in	AGVKN / EGDPIN
1	Doğac	Köse	3d	2260	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	14825052
2	Ömer	Naiboğlu	2d	2170	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19413075
3	Ertuğ	Akkol	2d	2151	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	10633920
4	Mustafa	Yalçın	4k	1846	Ankara	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	17698945
5	Özgür	İşçimen	2d	2180	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19650136
6	Erkan	İşçimen	10k	1097	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19737278
7	Uğur	Arıkan	3d	2335	Ankara	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	17374423
8	Kürşat	Elitok	1k	2043	Eskişehir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	18598701
9	Çağatay	Tavşanoğlu	1k	1935	Ankara	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	13650659
10	Erdi	Çoban	2d	2159	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	17001798
11	İlknur	Gürşen	8k	1263	Çanakkale	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19049041
12	Alp Barkın	Atmaca	15k	385	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20433468
13	Yusuf Kerem	Doğan	7k	1403	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20601416
14	Atakan	Çal	7k	1354	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16537213
15	Banu	Kibar	9k	1240	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	18586293
16	Mert	Çetin	16k	277	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20462189
17	Sema	Seymen	10k	1109	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19062043
18	Nalan	Kayacan	7k	1387	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16249497
19	Ulaş	Ören	5d	2513	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16298832
20	Serap	Süleymanoğlu	1d	2104	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	17625938
21	Hataycan	Özgür	3d	2281	İzmir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	15862539
22	Seval	Altuğ	1d	2082	İzmir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	15898542
23	Doğan	Ergezen	5k	1646	Ankara	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20562146
24	Başak Kural	Uslu	14k	700	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	Yeni Oyuncu
25	İrem	Uzun	22k	-100	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3	Yeni Oyuncu
26	Tolga Emre	Başargan	4k	1798	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	18786845
27	Hüsrev	Aksüt	5d	2467	Antalya	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	14649943
28	Ali̇	Kulubeci̇oğlu	1d	2083	Hatay	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19250198
29	Doğukan	Ergin	9k	931	İzmir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	19298059
30	Özgür	Değirmenci	5d	2491	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	14713589
31	Berat	Önder	4k	1734	Eskişehir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16998751
32	Hülya	Eren	1k	1990	İzmir	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	16725918
33	Volkan	Burç	4k	1752	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	14098854
34	Orhan Can	Acar	3k	1741	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	15649810
35	Mehmet Selim	Birben	8k	1313	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	17625806
36	İlbige	Kılıç	16k	536	İstanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	20349615
37	Ahmet Emir	Aydın	9k	1163	Istanbul	TR	1, 2, 3, 4, 5	18586304

Tournament Results

Will be announced here after the tournament.

Tournament wall list

Will be announced here after the tournament.

The links to the EGD tournament link will be made available after the tournament.

5th Boğaziçi Go Tournament