In detail, the options are as follows:

Option #1

With this option, there will be 4 days of studying per week, and 5 hours a day. The lectures will be held at 10:00 am to 12:00 am, and from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm there will be training games between teachers and participants, or between participants with a teacher's comments. In the evenings, between 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, there will always be a teacher available in the teaching area to answer any of your questions or play teaching games with you.

The go training of this option is comparatively loose, but we will of course create an individual studying plan for you, and you may still join the visits to the Chinese professional go league, and participate in friendly games with Chinese professional and amateur players. But since the studying time is relatively short, you will have more freedom to experience China outside go as you please.

Since there is less studying time, the price of this option is also the lowest, at €1000 for two months or € 775 for one month.


Option #2

With the second option there will be 5 days of studying per week and 5 hours a day. The lectures will be held at 10:00 am to 12:00 am, and from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm there will be training games between teachers and participants, or between participants with a teacher commenting. In the evenings, between 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm, there will always be a teacher available in the teaching area to answer any of your questions or play teaching games with you.

We will create an individual studying plan for you, and you will be able to join the visits to the Chinese professional go league, and participate in friendly games with Chinese professional and amateur players. This is our program's normal studying option, where you will spend plenty of time studying go but also have some free time to experience other aspects of China if you wish to do so.

The price of this option is €1100 for two months or €825 for one month.

Option #3

This option will have 6 days of studying per week, and 5 hours a day. The lectures will be held at 10:00 am to 12:00 am, and from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm there will be training games between teachers and participants, or between participants with a teacher commenting. When there are events scheduled on one of your studying days, you will be able to choose to participate, or stay in the teaching area to study as normal. In this case, you may add one hour per day during that week to your studying schedule, extending the afternoon training to 5:30 pm.

Sometimes when the Chinese professionals and famous amateur players come to visit our teaching area, they will only be able to play a limited number of games. In this kind of situation, the participants having chosen the third option will always have top priority.

This option will help you to achieve the best results possible for your go, and everything on your menu will be provided every week. But of course it is up to you to decide if you want to participate in all the studying sessions or not.

The price of this option is €1200 for two months or €875 for one month.

EGC

Every summer in Europe and North America,European Go Congress& US Go Congress are undoubtedly the biggest Go tournament and festival for Go players there. As we know many participants really want to participate in our program so to get improvement on Go, but also doesn’t want to miss the chance to play in EGC/ USGC, with your family and friends. Therefore, from summer 2010 in our program, for the sake of those participants, you’ll have a special option, to study our program for 1 month or so, to prepare for the coming EGC/ USGC. Our program will support all our teaching resources and full efforts, to help you get good improvement during your study, and finally you’ll get nice results in EGC/ USGC.

Participants who chooses this option, will study in our program for around one month, starting from June 20, until around July 20, a few days more or less is also possible. The schedule will also be 6 days per week, but the daily schedule will be much tighter, especially there will be a 2-3 hours evening session after dinner; teachers will leave some homework during this session if necessary. The EGC&USGC group will all be coached by several professional teachers; participants in this group will have more chance to play with teachers and famous professional players we invite. As for price, it’ll be 950 euro in total.

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