Belgian Go Federation

This year, the WAGC is held in Hangzhou, China, from May 24 to May 31.

Belgium is represented by Alain Wettach.

You can follow the championship at :
http://ranka.intergofed.org/?cat=15
http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/31/e/index.html
http://canoalain.free.fr/WAGC2010/Pays.html

The 14th Louvain-La-Neuve tournament will take place on 1st and 2nd November. More info :
- In French
- In Dutch
- In English

 

Winner of the 2008 open european go championship is (expectfully) one
of the 7-d Coreans.

Winner of this edition is Park Jong Wook, only player with 9 victories.
2nd is another 7-d Corean, and 3rd the Taiwanese competitor, Lai Yu-
Cheng (who ended 2nd in the 2004 WAGC and 5th in the 2007 WAGC).

The best European player is Catalin Taranu (5-p) from Romania, who
ended as 6th with 7 victories, just one litlle SOS-point ahead of
Alexander Dinerstein (3-p), and 4 SOS-points ahead of the other Russian
favourite and winner last year, Ilya Chikchine.

Our Corean guest, Kim Jung Hyeop, made pretty good with 8 victories
(among wich one against Dinerstein)!

The results of the participating Belgian were rather good.
In particular, Thomas Connor did very well as 2-d with 7 victories, and
is now promoted to 3-d level. Congratulations to him !

All the results here

The tournament was won by

1. Leen Willaert and Jan Ramon
2. Seung Hee Hong and Benjamin Gigot
3. vincent Lochen and Anhony Mariotti

More information here

26/27 April the Antwerp Go Club organises its first Open Tournament on the same location as the preliminaries of the Belgian Championship.
More information here.

You can register online here.

Jan Ramon won the Belgian Championship ahead of Alain Wettach and Nelis Vets.
More details...

26/27 April the Antwerp Go Club organises its first Open Tournament on the same location as the preliminaries of the Belgian Championship.
More information here.

You can register online here.

Colocated with the Olympic games, the World mind sport games will be organised in China, including Go as a discipline. Click for more info on Belgian delegation.

A Korean student (who is a strong baduk player) is interested in studying in Belgium for one year. We are looking for accomodation. Any suggestions for free or cheap accomodation in a university city would be very appreciated. This would be a nice opportunity to have a strong go teacher.

This year the BGF and the Korean embassy in Belgium will jointly organize a tournament called "Korean Ambassador's Cup" to directly select the Belgian representative at the Korean Prime Minister Cup, to be held in October in Korea. More details will follow.

Wang Yue, François Gonze, Pieter Beyens, Li Y Cheng and Kristof Bossee qualified for the finals of the Belgian Championship 2008.
Francois Gonze and Jan Bogaerts will not be able to participate and will be replaced by Thomas Connor and Chi Yiu Wong.

The place for the preliminaries of the Belgian championship was the club of Antwerpen. There were 22 participants. Wang Yue scored 7 wins, and 4 players scored 5 wins.

Full results