Belgian Go Federation

The German Go Association is organizing a "Mini Go Congress" in Trier on January 13 & 14, 2018. Trier is about 250km away from Brussels, so actually quite easily reachable.

Further information and registration in French is available here:
http://www.triergo.de/Tournoi/
and in German here:
http://www.triergo.de/Turnier/

Registration for the Selection Tournament of the Belgian Championship 2018 is now open!

Please find all relevant information here.

Do not miss the most important Belgian (go) event of the year !

More info: https://www.gofed.be/en/tournament/brussels

In order to celebrate its 25 years existence, the European Go Cultural Center organises a special tournament on the week-end of the 21st and 22nd of October.

The EGCC is located in Amstelveen, only a 2 hours drive from Brussels. This is an excellent opportunity to take part to a major European event, close to Belgium.

Full information and registration form are available under the following link: http://www.go-centre.nl/Events/AnniversaryTournament.php

This year, a 6th European professional player will be selected by a qualifying tournament in which about (*) the 16 best - amateur, of course - European players take part.

(*) some are missing: the Mitic brothers, Fionin, Debarre,...

It is a knock-out tournament with "2 lives" for the 3 first round (after, normal K-O).

The 3 first rounds are played in Wien on 15+16/06 and the 3 final rounds in Czechia on 13+14/07...

Results here: http://www.eurogofed.org/proqualification/index_2017.html

PS: the favorites: Kravets, Le Calvé, Podpera, Pop.

Update: the quarter finals are:
Oscar Vazquez, the young Spanish rising star 14 years old and big surprise of this qualifying tournament will play Rob Van Zeijst (55 ans, European champion in... 1981 (!), 1990 and 1993
Merö-Lin
Burzo-Kravets
Welticke-Podpera

You find a detailed survey here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=133

Registration for the 10th Ghent tournament is now open! Please follow this link for all relevant informations.

Weather will probably be rainy this next Sunday. So, why not to try to be Belgian champion by participating in a fun one-day tournament: the quick games (Blitz) Belgian championship (15 minutes as time allowance).
This tournament is played with (reduced) handicap so that everyone has chance to win it !
Participation is free of charge, but only for members of the Belgian Go Federation.

Read more here: https://www.gofed.be/node/1004 and...come, play and enjoy !

Soon (May 23 to 27) a summit named "the Future of Go" will gather China’s top players and leading A.I. experts in Wuzhen (China).

The summit will feature a variety of game formats involving "AlphaGo" and top Chinese players:
1. “Pair Go” — A game where one Chinese pro will play against another...with both having AlphaGo as teammate!
2. “Team Go” — A game between AlphaGo and a five-players team of top pros working together
3. "Match Bot vs. the best (human) player" - A match Ke Jie vs AlphaGo (in 3 games)

More info: https://deepmind.com/blog/exploring-mysteries-alphago/

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!

For the 1st time in the history of go, a "world championship" will be organized.
It will take place in Osaka on 21-23 March 2017.

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
Iwama Yuta (JP)
Park Junghwan (KR)
Mi Yuting (CN) (suprinsingly, not Ke Jie)

More details: http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/