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NewsFor the 1st time in go history, there will be a "World Champion" (...with "Zen" as one of the 4 competitors !)For the 1st time, a "world champion" will be selected by a specific competition (to be organized in Osaka in March 2017). There will be 4 competitors: the best player of each of the 3 big countries (South Korea, China, Japan)...and "Zen" defending the AI (Artificial Intelligence) side! Japanese representative will be Iwama Yuta. Probable players for China will be Ke Jie, and for Korea: Park Junghwan This will be very exciting! More details:
Preliminaries Belgian Championship 2017: the favourites made their way to for the final roundsThe participating "big shots" (Bram Vandenbon, 2-dan; Nelis Vets, 2-dan and Kwinten Missiaen, 3-dan) made their way to the final rounds as expected. Outsiders Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2-k) and Steven Foulon (4-k) took their chance and also qualified theirselves. These 5 competitors will join the 5 already qualified players: Lucas Neirynck, François Gonze, Gabriel Mercier, Kevin Prist and Jan Ramon in the final rounds in Mars. Unlucky Joris Oren (1-k)ended as 6th and is thus 1st reserve. There were 10 competitors. PS: surprisingly, Thomas Connor (Belgian champion in 2015) did not participate... Complete results here: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T161126F
Human revenge over computer: Cho Chi Kun won his match against Zen (2-1).Cho Chi Kun managed to win his match against the computer "Zen" by 2-1. More info here: (not yet updated with the 3rd game, which is commented here: Meanwhile, I read "Zen" has climbed to nr 1 on KGS.
4th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Switzerland 2-2On 22th of November, Belgium (Gerald +, Lucas -, Nelis +, Gabriel -) obtained its 1st point by making a draw against Switzerland. Note the reinforcement by Gerald Westhoff (ex-European top Dutch player, now living in Ghent) and the defeat of Lucas by a tiny 2,5 pts... Detail of the round here: Present standings here: We are in the red zone (with a risk of demotion to the C league), but there are still many rounds to come...
3rd round European Team Championship: Belgium - Italy 1-3On 1st of November, Belgian team (Lucas -, Jan +, Kwinten -, Nelis -) lost...for the 3rd time consecutively :-(. Detail of the round here:
The "Zen" team expects to overcome "Alpha Go" in 2017...and plays legendary Cho Chi Kun in a 3 games-match in November."Zen", the best publicly available software, has made incredible progress the last months (I reported he won a match against German champion Lukas Krämer, 6-d, by 3-1 in September). The objective of its developers is now to beat "Alpha Go" before end 2017 ! Yes, guys ! The team managed to organize a test match of 3 games against the legendary Cho Chi Kun starting just now (end November). Cho is certainly not as strong as he was in the eigties, but he is one of the most prestigious go players. He has won no less than...75 titles ! Please find here more info about this match (in French):
31st Brussels TournamentThe 31st Brussels tournament took place on the weekend of the 29th and 30th October 2016 and gathered 63 players! The winner is Fabien Lips (4d, FR), followed by Lucas Neirynck (5d, BE), Antoine Fenech (5d, FR) and Manuel Frangi (2d, FR). Complete results: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T161029G
2nd round Europa Team Championship: Belgium - Austria 1-3On 11/10, Belgian team (Lucas lost against Viktor Lin, Kwinten -, Nelis - , Gabriel +) lost against Austria 1-3 :-) Complete results here: Present standings:
1st round European Team Championship 2016-17: Belgium - United Kingdom 1-3Despite reinforcement of the Belgian team by Gerald Westhoff (NL, 6d), an European star of the 90's now living in Belgium, our team lost to UK by 1-3. Played for Belgium: Gerald (lost), Lucas (won), Nelis (lost) and Gabriel (lost, by 1,5 pt). Complete results here: Present standings:
Best publicly available software is now 6-d strenghSince 3 years, a match (of 5 games) has been organized between the strongest commercially available software and a top European amateur player. Up till now the human (Franz-Josef Dickhut, D, 6d) had triumphed against the machine/s ("Crazy Stones" in 2014; "Zen" in 2015), both times by 3-1). But this year, "Zen" beats Lukas Krämer (D, 6d, German champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015) also by 3-1. This is a new milestone in Computer-go because "Zen" (unlike "Alpha Go") is a publicly available go programs running on regular hardware... More info here: https://go.codecentric.de/
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