SGC 2024

47th Swiss Open Championship

This is an open Go tournament, players from all nations and all levels are welcome!

The top three players (irrespective of nationality) get cash prices, the best Swiss player gets the title "Swiss champion 2024".

Date and location: 14./15. September 2024 in Brugg/Windisch

The venue is building 1 of Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW, Address: Klosterzelgstrasse 2, 5210 Windisch. The FHNW campus is right next to Brugg railway station.

We will play five rounds: On-site registration starts on 9:00 on Saturday. The Saturday games will start at 10:00, 14:00 and 17:00; the Sunday games at 9:00 and 13:00, with a prize ceremony at 16:30.

Tournament mode: class A McMahon tournament. Time control will be Fisher time with 45 min. base time and 15 sec. per move.

This is an open tournament, players from all nations and all levels are welcome. The best-ranked Swiss player will claim the title "Swiss Champion".

Teacher

This year's teacher is Mateusz Surma 3p, founder of the booking platform for connecting students with Go teachers for the online Go lessons - https://polgote.com/

Registration

The registration fee is CHF 30.-- (CHF 15.-- for students and children), to be paid at the tournament.

Please pre-register here if you want to be sure that you can play, we can host at most 80 players.

Registration Form

See also the list of registered players.

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Spielstatt (https://www.Spielstatt.ch/): Der Brettspielspezialist und Spieleladen in Aarau -- The board game specialist and game shop in Aarau

Bad Schinznach (https://bad-schinznach.ch/): Spass, Sport und Erholung im Aquarena fun und Thermi spa --Fun, sport and relaxation at Aquarena fun and Thermi spa

Further Sponsoring

We thank (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)) for letting us use their rooms.

Organisers

These championships are organised by the trainer and participants of FHNW's university sports "Go / Baduk / Wéiqí" with the support of the Zürich Go Club and the La Tour-de-Peilz Go Club.

Please direct all questions to Hanspeter Schmid, hanspeter.schmid@fhnw.ch.