Photo by NAGF https://nagofed.org/
left: Gurujeet Khalsa, AGA President / right: Ryan Li 4P, 2022 North American Professional Go Champion
Seven professional Go players will compete in the 2025 North American Professional Go Championship in Washington DC during April 3~6, 2025.
Everyone has a chance to watch the mastery play at the National Go Center, or via AGA's online channels.
In December 2022, the NA Go Federation (NAGF) hosted the 1st N.A. Pro Go championship (AGA EJ report), sponsored by DeepMind, the Google company that created AlphaGo. Ryan Li 4P (then 3P) took the 1st-place and got promoted to professional 4-dan.
In the upcoming 2nd edition of the Pro Go championship, seven Pros will each play six slow games in a round-robin format. More details:
Tournament Director: Justin Teng 6D, AGA's EVP
Prize Pool: over $20,000 (1st: $10,000; 2nd: $5000; 3rd: $2500; 4th-7th: 1500/1000/750/500)
April 3~5
Morning Game: 10am ET; Afternoon Game: 4pm ET
April 6
Morning Game 9am ET; followed by the Award Ceremony
Pros: Mingjiu Jiang 7P🇺🇸, Alexander Qi 1P🇺🇸, Michael Chen 1P🇺🇸, Kim Yoonyoung 8P🇨🇦, Ryan Li 4P🇨🇦, Henry Yu 2P🇨🇦, Bill Lin 1P🇨🇦
What to watch for?
- Who is the strongest NA Go player?
- Which country is stronger, USA or Canada?
- With AGA's 7.5 Komi, will White win more games?
- Who will be promoted to higher Pro-rank under NAGF's promotion guideline?
Odds predicted by Grok-3 AI.
Poster created by ChatGPT