European Youth Go Championship

The European Youth Go Championship (EYGC) is a championship for young players of the board game of Go. It is held annually, and first started in Băile Felix, Romania in 1996.^[1] Some winners of the various age groups, such as Diána Kőszegi, have since progressed to become professional Go-players.
The Championship was divided into 2 sections until 2010, when it was split into 3 age groups.
This event is where one can first see the future European Go leaders, such as Ilya Shikshin or Artem Kachanovsky, respectively first and second in the adult 2010 European Go Championship (EGC).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Youth_Go_Championship

History

In its very first year, the U-18 group produced two noteworthy prize-winners: Csaba Mero (the section winner), and the future professional players Svetlana Shikshina (2nd place) and Alexandre Dinerchtein (3rd place).

Notable prize-winners

Other juniors went on to win senior tournaments.
The U-12 winner in 2000 and 2001, Ilya Shikshin, went on to win the adult European Go Championship, in 2007 and 2010.
Notable U-18 winners who progressed to greater things include Csaba Mero, Alexandr Dinerchtein (record 7-times-winner of the adult EGC) and Diána Kőszegi.

Awards

From 2010 onwards, these are split into 3 sections. They are for U-12s (players aged under 12), U-16s and U-18s.

Under 12

Year	Winner	Second	Third	Venue
1996	Antoine Fenech	Cosmin Mutu	Csaba Marton	Băile Felix
1997	Antoine Fenech	Vasilii Shvedov	Pal Balogh	Bratislava
1998	Ondrej Silt	Tommy Hollmann	Natalia Kovaleva	Cannes
1999	Natalia Kovaleva	Timour Dougine	Mykhailo Shechuk	Cannes
2000	Ilya Shikshin	Mykola Glischenko	Rita Pocsai	Sinaia
2001	Ilya Shikshin	Jan Prokop	Mykola Glischenko	Ustron
2002	Andrej Kravec	Andrej Kashaev	Artem Kachanovsky	Praha
2003	Ihor Zaytsev	Artem Kachanovsky	Miroslav Sos	Cannes
2004	Rafael Samakaev	Thomas Debarre	Amir Fragman	Cologne
2005	Mihai Serban	Joshua Chao - Oleg Kocherov		Kosice
2006	Joshua Chao - Mateusz Surma		Alexandre Matushkin	St Petersburg
2007	Toma Theodor	Chun-Yin Woo	Alexandre Vashurov	Zandvoort
2008	Jurij Mykhaljuk	Nikita Khabazov	Roman Koroljov	Mikulov
2009	Mikhail Sidorenko	Dmitri Miliukyn	Dmitrij Medvedev	Banja Luka
2010	Anson Ng	Alexandru Pitrop	Silvestru State	Sibiu
2011	Vladysl Verteleckyi	Stepan Popov	Vale Krusheknytskyi	Brno
2012				Saint Petersburg