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ResultsPark Junghwan (KR) is World championKorean Park Junghwan remains unbeaten in the 1st edition of the World Championship which took place last week in Osaka. 2nd is Mi Yuting from China (who only lost to Park). "Deep Zen Go", who/which represented the A.I. side, ended 3rd, thanks to its/her/his (:-) victory over... 4th - and last - Japanese Iwama Yuta, who did not gain a single victory Most of the games were very disputed. The results: http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/ *** PS: meantime "Deep Zen Go" is not longer the 2nd strongest go program in the world (behind AlphaGo/Master): the (2nd) strongest program is now a chinese one, "Fine Art". "Fine Art" is improving so incredibly quickly that many expect him to catch up AlphaGo soon !
He 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:
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 ?
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:
7th round of European team championship: Belgium - Croatia 3-1On 7th of February, Belgian team (Gerald -, Jan + - by 40,5 pts against a ex-multi European champion...well, in 1967 and in 1971...but still ! :-), Nelis + - by 0,5 point, oef/ouf -, Gabriel +) picked its 1st victory against the worst placed team, Croatia. This was an important victory...but Belgium is far from being saved... Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Interesting reflections on AlphaGoHere are: 1. The reflections of a dozen of Korean professionals on AlphaGo https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10210499878164941&id=1584704... 2. A video published by Hwang In Seong analysing Alphago's innovations (= heterodox moves): Enjoy ! :-)
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