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NewsHe did it once again: Lucas Neirynck is Belgian Champion !This WE, Lucas Neirynck (5d) conquered a new Belgian Champion title. He even remains unbeaten (9/9). Gabriel Mercier (2d...now probably 3d) did a great performance by finishing second (7/9), ahead of bronze medail Kwinten Missiaen (3d), 6/9. Also directly qualified for the 2018 finals are the 4th. François Gonze (4d) and the 5th. Nelis Vets (2d). Surprisingly enough, Jan Ramon (4d) (5/9) will have to play the preliminaries rounds next year. And so will have Bram Vandenbon (2d), Joost Van Nieuwenhuizen (2k) and the 2 younsters, Louis Baudaux and Victor Schneider (both 6k). Here are the detailled results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/397 (and here is the palmares of the Belgian Championship since 1st edition: http://www.gofed.be/node/260)
9th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Netherlands 2-2On 21th of March, our team managed to make a draw against the "on paper" stronger team of Netherlands. Lucas won against Gilles Van Eeden (6d), one of the strongest European players in the 80'and 90's. And Gabriel triumphed over a 3d. Despite this performance, Belgium stays in the red zone. There is still 2 rounds left... Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Registration is open for Liège tournament and Le Pantin tournament!Both Liège club and Le Pantin club hold their second tournament this year! Follow this link to find all informations about Liège Tournament, and this one for Le Pantin Tournament. We are looking forward to meeting you!
The 1st (ever) World Go Championship coming soon (21 to 23 March)For the 1st time in the history of go, a "world championship" will be organized. There will be 4 competitors: the best player of each of the 3 big countries + "Zen" defending the AI (Artificial Intelligence) side! The human representatives will be More details: http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/
Finals Belgian Championship 2017, standings after the 1st WE: Lucas and Kwinten still unbeatenAfter the 1st WE (5 rounds played out of the 9), Kwinten Missiaen (3d) and Lucas Neirynck (5d) remained unbeaten. In the "peloton" of players with 3 points: Bram Vandenbon (2d), Jan Ramon (4d), François Gonze (3d) and Gabriel Mercier (2d). Further, Nelis Vets (2d) has 2 points, Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2k), 1 point, and our "rising stars" Louis Baudaux (6k) and Victor Schneider (6k) - who replaced Kevin Prist (3d) and Joris Oren (1k) who were not free - are still waiting for a feat...
8th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Sweden 2-2On 28th of February, Belgian team (Lucas +, Kwinten -, Nelis -, Gabriel +) made draw against Sweden. Complete results of the round: Present standings:
How strong are the home-made European pros ?The go server Tygem has just organized a match between Kim Seung-Jun (also known as "Blackie"), a famous 9 dan professional player, against the 5 home-made European pros (Ilya Shikchine, Pavol Lisy, Artem Kachanovskij, Mateusz Surma and Ali Jabarin). All games were played without komi (Kim playing white, of course). The final score is 3-2 for Kim (Ilya and Mateusz won). Conclusion: according to this result, it seems that "our" pros have really a professional strength: the handicap between top professional players and young beginning professionals is currently estimated to be of 1 to 2 stone/s. More detail here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=99
European Youth championship 2017 results; Sinan Djepov, the Bulgarian go geniusMore than 200 young participants (among whom many Russian ones) played the European Youth Championship organized in Grenoble. There were 3 categories: Under 12 (92 participants !): winner was Ivan Klochikhine (RU, 4k) Under 16 (79 participants): winner was Oscar Vasquez (SP, 3d) (who used to play in Belgium some years ago), ahead of Valeri Krushelnytskyi (UA, 4d) Under 20: the all-Russian podium is composed by Vjacheslav Kajmin (RU, 5d) ahead of the great favourite Grigorij Fionin (RU, 6d) and Anton Chernykh (RU, 5d). Complete results here: *** Another point: did you know Sinan Djepov ?
Lucas Neirynck wins Leuven 2017This year 45 people attended the Leuven Go Tournament.
Ilya Shikshin won 2nd edition of the professional European championshipIlya Shikshin won the 2nd edition of the "European pro European Championship", but only thanks to SOS tie-breaker. Ilya was already open European champion. There were 6 participants: the 5 "home-made (European-made) pros" (Pavol Lisy, Ali Jabarin, Mateusz Surma, Ilya Shikshin and Artem Kachanovsky)were joined by Alexandre Dinerchtein (Russia, 3p in Korea). Missing were the following European pros: Fan Hui (I have heard he decided to stop to play tournaments), Catalin Taranu, Svetlana Shikshina (plus, of course, the European pros who live in far east Asia: Maria Zakharchenko, Antti Törmanen and Diana Köszegi). Enjoy a thorough report here:
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