On Saturday, Oct. 31, and Sunday, Nov. 1, the Lanke German Women Cup took place in Trier, with live broadcasts on OGS and izis. At times, we had well over 3,000 viewers. At the start were: • Akira Fukushima-Maekawa (4d, Lübeck) • Maike Wilms (3d, Hamburg) • Barbara Knauf (3d, Cologne) • Isabel Donle (2d, Darmstadt) Virzhinia Freilak (4d, Tübingen) and Manja Marz (4d, Jena), who had originally planned to take part, unfortunately had to withdraw at short notice due to illness. Get well soon to both of them! The tournament was played as a round robin. It was extremely exciting, and in the end even dramatic, when in the final round Barbara Knauf was clearly in the lead against the previously undefeated Akira Fukushima, but in the endgame let a group get cut off and resigned. An analysis showed, however, that even at that point she had still been two points ahead… She took it with humor, though, and we congratulate the tournament winner Akira Fukushima! Akira has been living in Germany for two years. She is also known as a YouTuber, where she reports in Japanese on her life in Germany and on the European Go scene. She received an award for this at EGC 2025. Here is the final standings table: Photo from the award ceremony: Links to the games: Round 1: https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809359 https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809360 Round 2: https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809511 https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809512 Round 3: https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809979 https://online-go.com/demo/view/1809980 Photos from the tournament: The post Lanke German Women Cup first appeared on Deutscher Go-Bund e. V..
