Gomoku World Championship 2023

The Gomoku World Championship is going to be organized after a 4 years break since Tallinn 2019! The purpose of the World Championship is to determine the strongest Gomoku player in the world, who will win the title of World Champion. This time the biggest Gomoku event is going to take place in Budapest, Hungary.

The World Championship consists of following events:

• Qualification Tournament (QT) – Qualification Tournament for places in AT (with limited seats)

• World Championship Final (AT) – The Final Tournament of the World Championship (12 seats for the best players)

• World Championship Open Tournament (BT) – Open International Tournament (anyone can participate)

• Gomoku Blitz Tournament - Short time-limit games tournament (anyone can participate)

• Gomoku Super-Blitz Tournament – Short time-limit games tournament (anyone can participate)

Everybody is welcome to travel to Budapest to join any of the above listed tournaments (the tournaments with limitations, such as AT and QT require permission). If you decide to travel to the World Championship to Budapest, please fill out the registration form.

Welcome to Budapest! Don’t miss the biggest Gomoku event in the World!

What is Gomoku?

Gomoku is an abstract strategy board game from Japan. Gomoku is traditionally played with black and white pieces on a 15×15 size board and the goal is to get 5 stones in a row.