en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_professional

The article gives the Honinbo winner's prize as "about $350,000," but the current official information from the Nihon Ki-in contradicts that.

• The Nihon Ki-in's current domestic-tournaments page, dated April 28, 2026, lists the Honinbo winner's prize as 850万円 (¥8.5 million).
• The Nihon Ki-in also published a April 7, 2023 announcement explaining that from the 79th Honinbo onward, the tournament format changed and the winner's prize became 850万円.

So the article's figure is not just imprecise; it is based on an older prize structure and is now materially wrong.

This sentence was true before the 2025 qualification event, but it is no longer correct.

The official European Go Federation reported on February 16, 2025 that the Pro Qualification returned to Vienna in 2025 and that Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia qualified as the next EGF Pro. In that same article, the EGF explicitly called him "the 10th EGF pro."

That means the article's numbers are now wrong in two ways:

1. It is no longer true that only seven qualification tournaments have taken place.
2. It is no longer true that only nine players have been granted EGF professional status.

By February 2025, the correct count had already reached eight qualification tournaments and ten EGF professionals.

The EGF's own later reporting shows that this summary is no longer accurate.

According to the official EGF article published on February 16, 2025, the Pro Qualification returned to Vienna in 2025 and Benjamin Dréan-Guénaïzia qualified as "the 10th EGF pro."

So the page's statement that there have been only seven qualification tournaments and only nine EGF professionals is outdated and factually incorrect after that event.

This wording is historically incorrect because Europe already had professional Go players before Pavol Lisý and Ali Jabarin qualified in the EGF system.

The European Go Federation itself explains that before 2014 there was already a path for Europeans to become professionals by qualifying under Asian organizations, and says that "a handful of European players achieved their professional status this way, mainly in Japan and Korea." The same EGF article then clarifies that Lisý and Jabarin were the first players to become professionals under the European accreditation system.

A separate EGF article from 2016 also lists already-established European professionals such as Alexander Dinerchtein 3p and Catalin Taranu 5p among Grand Slam participants, confirming that European professionals existed before the 2014 EGF qualification winners.

So the accurate statement would be that Lisý and Jabarin were the first two EGF-certified European professionals, not the first European professionals full stop.