May 21, 2019 Tanguy Le Calvé 1p, France The European Professional System was established in 2014. The only way to become a professional player in Europe is through winning a professional qualification tournament. Here are the current European professionals in order by when they turned pro: 2014: Pavol Lisy (Slovakia) and Ali Jabarin (Israel) 2015: Mateusz Surma (Poland) and Ilya Shikshin (Russia) 2016: Artem Kachanovskyi (Ukraine) 2017: Andrii Kravets (Ukraine) (…)
Source : Tanguy Le Calvé From France Becomes 7th European Pro – Website of The International Go Federation