Belgian Go Federation

Why become a member ?

The Belgian Go Federation, a non-profit organization, has the aim of promoting go in Belgium.
By becoming a member, you help to reach that objective. In the long run, you'll have more and different players to play go with.

The BGF offers several services to its members.
More concrete, the BGF...

• published a quarterly e-newsletter, BelgoNet, with tournament news, announcements, commented games, ...
• organizes go lectures given by strong players, and offers big reductions on "KGS+" fees
• organizes the interclubs tournament
• organizes once a year a go weekend and from time to time, some other Go workshops.
• maintains the rating list (only members are published)
• organizes various competitions, free of charge for its members

How to become a member ?

You can become a member if you're also a member of a Belgian go club.
The go club asks membership fee, of which a part is your membership fee for the BGF, the other part being a specific fee for the club (varying from one club to another between 0€ to 10€). Please ask your club captain.

Each year, the amount of the membership fee is decided at the Annual General Meeting.

For 2011, the membership fee of the BGF is 15 EUR, except for the new members for whom the fee is 10 EUR (and even only 5 EUR for membership taken after 1st of September).

(it's possible to become a member without being a member of a Belgian go club. In this case the membership fee is 25 EUR (17 EUR for a first-year membership) Contact Jan Ramon <treasurer@gofed.be>).

No matter whether you're a member or not, you can communicate with the Belgian Go community on our newsgroup.