37th Brussels tournament


37th Brussels Tournament 28th & 29th October 2023

 

Tournament format

Five rounds MacMahon without handicap
Timing: 1 hour per player + byo-yomi: 15 stones for 5 minutes
Komi: 6.5

Non-smoking tournament

Registration and entry Fee

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8Iuhl91V9i72HEnmFrhg0UbJoEjC4...

  • 15€ for registration and payment before 20/10/2023
  • 20€ after 20/10/2023 (included)
  • +5€ for Belgian players, non-member of the BGF
  • -5€ for Players born after 29/10/2005

You can pay the fee by transfer on our bank account (IBAN: BE24 7755 9621 2238) (BIC: GKCC BE BB) with the communication : "Brussels" + your name + your rank. For international transfers, further information about the bank account of the Belgian Go Federation can be found at the bottom of this page.

Please note that you only qualify for the early registration fee if the the payment arrives before 20/10/2023. It is your responsibility to take into account the possible delay of your bank in transferring money.

Players from outside the Euro zone facing high bank transfer costs, qualify for the early registration fee if they register online before 20/10/2023.

If you pre-register and can not make it for the first round, you are expected to notify the organization by sending an email to board@gofed.be before the start of the round. Once your registration fee has been received, you will be paired for the first round. You only have to confirm your presence if there are mistakes in your name or rating on our wall-list. You can cancel your registration by warning us. Before 20/10/2023, 12€ will be refunded, after 20/10/2023 only 7.5€.

Prizes

Prizes are guaranteed for all the players with 4 wins (30 €) or 5 wins (50 €).
Prizes for top places are determined by the MMS score and SOS. Prizes are divided equally if both MMS and SOS are equal.
In case we have less than 50 registrations, prizes money will be: 1st. 250 €, 2nd: 150 € ; 3rd: 75 €; If 50 or more, they will be 1st: 400 €, 2nd: 200 €, 3rd: 100 €.

Schedule

Saturday (GMT +2)
10:00 - Opening of registration
10:40 - Deadline of registration
11:00 - First Round
14:00 - Second Round
16:30 - Third Round
Sunday (GMT +1 !!)
10:00 - Fourth Round
13:00 - Fifth Round
16:30 - Prize giving

Venue

Address
Belgium-China Association
Avenue Paul Deschanel 92
1030 Brussels

How to get there

The tournament location is 20 minutes walking from the Brussel North train station (Brussel-Noord / Bruxelles-Nord)
2 minutes away from the tram station Côteaux
15 minutes away from the metro station Botanique
 

Accommodation

Private accommodation is available, but quite restricted.

Youth Hostels in the vicinity :

You will also find a very large number of hotels within close range of the playing venue.
Here are a few of them :

Results past editions

2023
2022
2021
2020: not organized due to Covid-crisis
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989: not organised
1988: complete results not available
1987
1986: complete results not available
1985: complete results not available

Former podiums of the Brussels Tournament

Tournament Year Winners 2nd 3rd numbers of player (among whom # 4d or stronger)
1 1985 Pierre Colmez, 5D Jean Michel, 4D Frank Janssen, 4D 86 (8)
2 1986 Frank Janssen, 5D André Moussa, 5D ?, ? ? (?)
3 1987 Pierre Colmez, 5D Frank Janssen, 5D Jean Michel, 5D 108 (6)
4 1988 Yoo Jong-Su, 7D David Schoffel, 5D ?, ? 86 (6)
- 1989 no tournament
5 1990 Guo Juan, 7D Ronald Schlemper, 7D Alexei Lazarev, 6D 116 (24 !)
6 1991 Sheng Guanji, 6D Guo Juan, 7D Frank Janssen, 6D 112 (28 !)
7 1992 Sheng Guanji, 6D Guo Juan, 7D David Schoffel, 5D 90 (16)
8 1993 Sheng Guanji, 6D Guo Juan, 7D Jean-François Séailles, 5D 100 (15)
9 1994 Sheng Guanji, 6D Guo Juan, 7D Jean-François Séailles, 5D 90 (12)
10 1995 Guo Juan, 7D Zhang Shutai, 7D
Wataru Miyakawa, 6D
Pierre Colmez, 5D 84 (10)
11 1996 Guo Juan, 7D Miyakawa Wataru, 6D Farid Ben Malek, 5D 112 (15)
12 1997 Park Sang Nam, 6D Guo Juan, 7D Vladimir Danek, 6D 108 (12)
13 1998 Geert Groenen, 5D Vladimir Danek, 6D
Franz-Josef Dickhut, 6D
Guo Juan, 7D 100 (10)
14 1999 Guo Juan, 7D Pierre Colmez, 5D Geert Groenen, 6D 70 (8)
15 2000 Guo Juan, 7D Vladimir Danek, 6D
Emil Nijhuis, 5D
Geert Groenen, 6D 66 (7)
16 2001 Guo Juan, 7D Paul Drouot, 5D Filip Vanderstappen, 5D 76 (9)
17 2002 Guo Juan, 7D Frédéric Donzet, 5D Ion Florescu, 6D 80 (9)
18 2003 Noguchi Motoki, 6D Guo Juan, 7D Vladimir Danek, 6D 75 (8)
19 2004 Franz-Josef Dickhut, 6D Zhao Pei, 6D Radek Nechanicky, 6D 108 (9)
20 2005 Cho Seok Bin, 7D Radek Nechanicky, 6D Li Jingrui, 6D 111 (8)
21 2006 Cho Seok Bin, 7D Jan Ramon, 4D Ondrej Silt, 6D 86 (11)
22 2007 Cho Seok Bin, 7D Radek Nechanicky, 6D Say Boon Ng, 4D 85 (5)
23 2008 Zou Lin, 6D Ondrej Silt, 6D Li Yue, 6D 99 (6)
24 2009 Dai Junfu, 7D Hwang In-Seong, 7D Yangqi Zhang, 6D 89 (7)
25 2010 Cho Seok Bin, 7D Csaba Merö, 6D Kyoungnang Kang, 6D 74 (7)
26 2011 Csaba Merö, 6D Chen Lei, 6D Vincent Van Gelderen, 4D 76 (9)
27 2012 Pavol Lisy, 6D Ondrej Silt, 6D Lluis Oh, 6D 61 (9)
28 2013 Zhang Yuanbo, 4D Antoine Fenech, 5D Benjamin Blanchard, 3D 47 (5)
29 2014 Vladimir Danek, 5D Kim Ouweleen, 4D Olivier Drouot, 3D 42 (3)
30 2015 Bogdan Zhurakovskyi, 5D Olivier Drouot, 3D Antoine Fenech, 5D 71 (2)
31 2016 Fabien Lips, 4D Lucas Neirynck, 5D Antoine Fenech, 5D 63 (4)
32 2017 Jonas Welticke, 6D Chen Qi, 4D Oscar Vazquez, 5D 58 (6)
33 2018 Lucas Neirynck, 6D Wang Zichen, 4D Jan Ramon, 4D 59 (4)
34 2019 Jan Ramon, 4D Sven Cuyt, 1k Dick Riedeman, 3D 38 (1)
- 2020 (not organized-Covid)
35 2021 Lucman Bounoider, 3D He JinMing, 3D Louis Baudaux, 1k 32 (0)
36 2022 Jia Hui Chen, 5D Zihan Yan, 6D He JingMing, 3D 52 (2)
37 2023 Cornel Burzo, 6D Zihan Yan, 6D Xin Shu, 5D 66 (4)