Belgian Go Federation

The last round of the first Pandanet Team Championship was played on Tuesday 17th May. It was crucial for Belgium to score at least one point against Croatia: if we had lost this one we would be dropped to league C for next year. But our players did quite well as we managed to draw. Please find the games on the website.

Many thanks to all players. I hope we can do it again next year. It wasn't easy but I'm really proud such a small country could stay in the B league.

Belgium lost severely against Austria (0-4). No wonder: they were stronger on paper anyway.

Now remains the last round to play. The teams ending 9th and 10th will to be demoted in 3rd division. Belgium is 8th, just one point ahead of Croatia...against which we will play in this last round in May ! Suspens ! (a draw would be enough).

Belgium Austria Score 0-4
Jan Ramon (janr) 4 dan Viktor Lin (Sandmann) 5 dan W+26.5
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4 dan Bernhard Scheid (Pok) 5 dan B+7,5
Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1 dan Jürgen Suntinger (Juergonaut) 3 dan W+14.5
Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1 kyu Wolfgang Krames (Koffein) 2 dan B+resign

This round was played on Sunday 27th March at 8:00pm. We scored three wins against Spain, which is quite a nice result. The games should be online soon on the official website.

Exciting games for this Belgian Championship! Congratulations to all the players and especially to Lucas Neirynck who took back the title of Belgian Champion.
You can find some pictures of the tournament here, the full results here, the games of the two first boards on BelChamp1's account on KGS, and soon an accurate report and commented games in BelgoNet.

No miracle: Belgium has been severely beaten (0-4) by Sweden (which was stronger on paper anyway...)

After 6 of the 9 rounds, Belgium is 8th out of the 10 teams. At the end, the 2 last teams will descend into 3rd division for the next season)...Let us cross the fingers we will stay ahead of Spain and Croatia...

Individual results

 
Complete results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/15

Belgium finally scored a point with a nice 2-2 match. Find the full results and the games here

Belgium vs. Slovenia
  2 – 2

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 19:00 GMT

Lucas Neirynck (4D, Louvain-La-Neuve) has won the 21st edition of the Leuven tournament. After 5 rounds he remained undefeated. Second place was shared by Jan Ramon (4D, Leuven) who only lost to Neirynck, and Christopher Annachachibi (1D!, Le Pantin), who also only lost to Neirynck. Also good scores for David Katchaturian (4k, Le Pantin) and Philip Kocks (20k, Gent) with 4/5 and Maarten Savels (11k, Gent) with 5/5!

Full results

If you want to learn Go or if you've just learned how to play, you might be interested to meet other people who are in your case. That kind of activity will be organised in Liège soon, please doodle here : http://doodle.com/d2itmqigcqyz8p2e

Voici un ensemble de règles permettant de choisir les représentants belges à certaines compétitions internationales. Ces règles ont été discutées par le CA courant 2010.

Lisez les règles ici (version française). Si vous désirez les traduire en néerlandais, merci de contacter le board...