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ResultsIlya Shikchin (RU, 1-p) wins Kido CupIlya Shikchin (RU, 1-p) wins unbeaten the 2016 Kido Cup, in which 4 out of the 5 new European professionals participated, along with 4 top amateurs. 2nd: Ali Jabarin (IL, 1-p) who only lost to Shickhin. Here are the complete results: http://www.kidocup.com/?Ergebnisse PS: there were no less than 177 participants in the "main" (open section) tournament ! impressive !
11th (and last) round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Austria 3-1On 17th May, Belgium team (Lucas +, Kwintens +, Nelis -, Gabriel +) won against Austria (to be noted: Lucas' victory on Viktor Lin, 6-d, one of the top European player) Belgium ended finally 8th out of 12 teams in B-League. Here are the results of the round: And here the standings after this round: In A-league, the 4 best teams (Russia, Ukrainia, Romania and France) will compete against each others for the final victory during the European Go Congress in St-Petersburgh...
10th round of European Team Championship: Belgium - Israel 0-4End April, Belgian team (Jan, Nelis, Dominique, Gabriel) lost heavily (0-4), like the 2 previous month, this time against the future champion of B-League, Israël (pity for Jan on table 1: Ali Jabarin, the pro, did not play). There is now a last round to be played. With 2 points more than the potentially descending teams, Belgium should avoid relegation... Here are the results of the round: And here the standings after this round:
2nd European Grand Slam Tournament in BerlinThe most (qualitatively) important European tournament of the year was organized this WE in Berlin (top amateurs had to fight in a preliminary tournament to join the European pros for this Grand Slam tournament). Ali Jabarin (1-p, IL) won 1st prize (10.000 € !) by beating in final Artem Kachanovski (1-p, UA) Here are the results: Preliminary round Quater Final Semi-Final Final: Small Final: Mateusz Surma vs Pavol Lisy B+Resign
Dominique Versyck (2-d) wins in LiègeDominique Versyck (2-d) made his comeback into Belgian go life by winning the 1st edition of the tournament of Liège. Second was Guillaume Lescuyer (2-k) There were an encouraging 22 participants. Complete results:
9th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Hungary 0-4In April, Belgian team (Jan, Kwinten, Nelis, Gabriel) lost heavily (0-4) like previous month, this time against Hungary. With 2 rounds still to be played, Belgium is now 8th out of 12 teams in this B-league, having only 2 points more than the potentially descending teams ! Here are the results of the round: And here the standings after this round:
Lucas Neirynck is Belgian champion 2016Lucas Neirynck conquered his 6th title of Belgian Champion (see palmares here: http://www.gofed.be/node/260). François Gonze ended at the 2nd place. Gabriel Mercier, Kevin Prist and Jan Ramon, ex aequo, completed a (large) podium. These 5 players are qualified for the 2017 finals. Thomas Connor, Nelis Vets, Vincent Quoilin and Joost V. will have to fight in the premiminaries to get a qualifying place to the finals... PS: Wang Yue was absent (and informally replaced by Tom, a double digit kyu) Here are the results: 1. Lucas Neirynck 9/9 details: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T160319T
interesting: a dynamic view of the top-10 champions since 1974 (you tube)So as to think about something else in this dark day... Interesting to see the emergence of China and Korea since 1990...(and sudden AlphaGo's appearance at 2nd place a few days ago)...
The end of human's superiority on A.I. in go: AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4-1DeepMind’s groundbreaking artificial intelligence (A.I.), AlphaGo, defeated Lee Sedol in the final game of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match, winning the five game match with a 4–1 score. AlphaGo now goes down in history as the 1st computer Go program to defeat a top professional player, and was awarded an honorary professional 9 dan rank by the Korean Baduk Association (note: AG is even ranked nr 2 on http://www.goratings.org/ :-). More info on https://gogameguru.com PS:....among many others sites and articles...the event was largely commented !
François Gonze (3-d) wins in LeuvenFrançois Gonze, 3d won the tournament of Leuven with a perfect score. Lucas Neirynck, 5d ended 2nd (4-1); Jan Ramon, 4d completed the podium (3-2). This edition met a big success with a total of 46 participants! Complete results: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T160220D&p...
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