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First of all, the most important: European Go Congress 2008 open for subscription. If you want to join the next EGC, you’ll have to register there as soon as possible for the cheapest fees. This year it’ll take place in Leksand, Sweden, from the 26th July to the 9th August.

If you are interested in professional news, you should know that the second game of the Meijin title has been already played and players are now on a draw. You can see the games and some uncommented variations at “Meijin 2007 – 361points.com”. And based on the first game of this Meijin, Shorin created a very interesting entry on this blog: “Learning from professional games (1)”.

On another level, far away from final games of the Meijin title, but equally interesting for its familiarity with our games, there is a nice post called “Don’t Panic - at Because it’s there”.

On the last pack of recommended articles, I must say that there has been quite a lot of activity at GoDiscussions with some good topics going on.

1. “How’s your intuition?”: A user posts one situation from a professional game and asks player from different categories about their next move. One day is given for each category, so DDK answer first, then SDK and finally dan players. There are three posts of this “collection”: One, Two and Three.
2. “Favorite Pro?“: Some users discuss about their prefered pro player and their abilities.
3. “Studying amateur games“: Discussions about the value of studying amateur games instead of professional ones. Here you’ll find the “pros” and the “cons”.
4. “Ladder breaker: How to respond it?“: Rable shows us a real situation from a recent game and different users discuss about possible responses for a ladder breaker move. This discussion is held at a quite high level.