Belgian Go Federation

26th Brussels Tournament on Oct. 29th and 30th: information (English) and online registration

26e Tournoi de Bruxelles les 29 et 30 octobre: information (français) et inscription en ligne

26str Brussels Go Tornooi 29-30 Oktober, 2011: informatie (Nederlands) en online registratie

Only four participants took part to this year Youth and Student Championship. It was argued that the age limit should have been at 29 instead of 20, because there is a European Student Championship where students can take part until 29. Next year we will take it into account.

Given the small number of participants, we decided to make it a round-robin championship (meaning everyone plays against each other once).

It comes out that Ly Duc Khang is our Student Champion and Adrian Dzienisiuk is our Youth Champion.

It was our first round for this new season, and we fought proudly, though the opponent was much stronger on paper. Congratulation to the team! Find the games on the website.

Hello all Belgian Go players !

It is my duty and honour to announce the intermediate results of the 2011 Interclub tournament. This year we have 3 participating clubs: Antwerpen, Gent and Leuven. Because of the low number of teams, we have decided to double the number of rounds played and have all couples of teams play both home and away.
So far, half of the rounds have been played.

Antwerpen has managed to win a game (congratulations to Dennis Wolfs). Gent has won three games so far, and current leader (and winner of the 2010 season) is Leuven.
Congratulations to all participating teams, and good luck in the next rounds !

Your interclub tournament organiser,
Robby

I have the great pleasure of announcing that many new projects are taking place with the Swiss Go Association and their Official Go instructor, In-Seong Hwang, Korean 7d. After his wonderful work (which all players highly enjoyed) at the Go camp (report and pictures), In-Seong Hwang offered to go on working with us to develop Go in Belgium.

We have so many new and entertaining projects... You can read some here in English or en français.

It is a great opportunity to grab for us!

We had a great time at the 2011 Belgian Go Camp. There were 33 participants; the teachers were In-Seong Hwang, 7d from Korea, and Lucas Neirynck, 4d Belgian champion. Find a full report here and the pictures here. See you at the next Go camp!

The Ghent tournament is finished. We had a nice group of about 23 players. There were only 2 dan-level players, but we did have a very nice and consistent group of players between 10 and 15 kyu, making it a very rewarding tournament for beginning players. The tournament was -of course- free, but the players were very generous in their donations, so we had nice prizes for the winner Kwinten Missiaen and numbers 2 and 3, Bram Vandenbon and Dominique Versyck respectively.

Full results.

The Belgian Rengo Championship took place last week in Brussels. There were 10 players (5 pairs). The first round end up with the outstanding victory of the 4k&11k pair against the 2d² pair.

The final winners:

1. Kevin Prist 1d & Ly Vu Duc Khang 2k
2. David Kathchaturian 4k & Simon Pin 11k
3. Lochen Vincent 5k & Jemine Marie 2k (first mixed pair)

Full results here

Congratulation to the winners, thank you all for participating and see you again in good shape next year!!

Jan Ramon 4d was representing Belgium in 2011 World Amateur Go Championship in Japan!

With 3 victories out of 8 rounds (with a hard pairing), he ended 25th in a field of 57 competitors.

Final winner was Bai, the Chinese representative, who remained unbeaten.
2nd was Korean Choi.
3rd, and best Western player, was Eric Liu from USA.
4th, and best European contender, was the Frenchman Thomas Debarre.
5th, and oldest participant (85 y old !): Hirata from Japan (former winner - in 1995).

Find a nice report here: http://ranka.intergofed.org/
(and discover f.i. the incredibly original openings played by the Polish player :-)

WAGC web site

I wanna go to Japan!

Voor de tweede keer ging het Blitz kampioenschap door in Leuven. Om half twee verzamelden we allemaal in Café Amedee, om uit te maken wie de beste Blitz speler is in België. In totaal kwamen er 8 spelers opdagen, waarvan de helft thuisspelers.
Er werd beslist om de toernooivorm te veranderen in een round-robin toernooi. Zo kon iedereen tegen iedereen spelen.
Rond 2 uur begonnen we aan de eerste wedstrijden.
De rondes volgden elkaar vlug op. Voor de laatste ronde was nog veel mogelijk. Dominique en Dieter stonden op 5 punten en Joost volgde met 4 punten. Dieter en Joost moesten in de laatste ronde nog tegen elkaar spelen. Uiteindelijk won dominique en was hij de terechte winnaar, met maar één verloren partij tegen Dieter. Joost won tegen Dieter en snoepte daarmee de 2e plaats af van hem.
Rond 7 uur waren we klaar met alle partijen en kon iedereen met ten minste 2 gewonnen partijen naar huis gaan. Een fijne maar vermoeiende namiddag die zeker voor herhaling vatbaar is.

Kris

De volledige uitslag (volgorde volgens SODOS/onderlinge partij):
1. Dominique Versyck 6
2. Joost Vannieuwenhuyse 5
3. Dieter Daems 5
4. Kris Boyen 3
5. Demian Walvisch 3
6. Bart Caers 2
7. Joshua Habets 2
8. Jean-Denis Hennebert 2