📆 Date: July 23, 2025
🔗 Website: egc2025.pl
🌐 ISGS: intergostudies.net

Program PDF Download : The 3rd ISGS Go Conference 2025 Programme

Organized by the International Society of Go Studies (ISGS) with support of Polish Go Association (European Go Congress 2025)

📝 Summary

The 3rd ISGS Go Conference 2025 brings together academics, professionals, and players to explore the cultural, cognitive, and technical dimensions of the game of Go. Featuring a keynote on fairness in Go, international speakers, panel discussions, and the ISGS Promotion Awards, the event is part of the European Go Congress 2025.

🕙 Conference Programme

10:00–10:05 – Opening Remarks

Moderator: Naomi Bensel, Ireland

10:05–10:25 – KEYNOTE: The Fairness of Go

Speaker: Prof. Chihyung Nam, Department of Go Studies, Myongji University, South Korea

10:25–10:45 – Reflections on Rules, Procedures, and Culture in International Go Tournaments

Based on the Controversy in the 29th LG Cup Final
Speakers:

• Prof. Yuan Sun, Shanghai International Studies University, China
  
• Prof. Mei Wang, WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

11:00–12:00 – Panel Discussion

Panelists:

• Prof. Chihyung Nam
  
• Prof. Mei Wang
  
• Diána Kőszegi 2p
  
• Seungjun Kim 9p
  
• Audience participation

12:00–13:00 – Lunch Break

13:00–13:30 – A Simultaneous Game as Go Player and Anthropologist

Research Design for a Year of Fieldwork in Seoul, South Korea
Speaker: Antonius Claasen, Germany

13:30–14:00 – Teaching the Game of Go, Baduk, or Weiqi to Absolute Beginners

Speakers: Ángel Alberto Sesma González & Leonardo Jiménez Martínez, Mexico

14:00–14:30 – Pattern Acquisition and Comparative Analysis in the Game of Go

A Modern Approach
Speaker: Prof. Xiuwen Wu, National Louis University, USA

14:30–15:00 – Coffee Break

15:00–15:30 – Go for the Mind: A Review of Go’s Cognitive Benefits for the Young and Old

Speaker: Chimin Oh, University of Oxford, UK

15:30–16:00 – Data-driven and Expert-informed Pattern Search to Identify Popular Go Openings Amongst Amateur Players

Speakers:

• Dr. Quentin Rendu, Hamburg University of Technology
  
• Dr. Carlos G. Urzúa-Traslaviña
  
• Xiaocheng-Stephen Hu, Qilue Weiqi

16:00–16:20 – Prize Ceremony of the 3rd ISGS Go Promotion Awards 2025

Presenter: Daniela Trinks, ISGS Vice-President

16:20–16:30 – Closing Ceremony

Moderators:

• Naomi Bensel, Ireland
  
• Chihyung Nam, ISGS President