News of the Belgian Go Federation

Reduced fees on the Yunguseng Dojang Program

Shanti — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:04:07 +0000

Dear players,

Starting from 2012 you can access the Yunguseng Dojang programme on KGS. The BGF offers a discount for its players. Please find full information about the programme here and the information page for payments in Belgium here.

This is an intensive programme that many of us had a chance to try already, and a proof of its efficiency could be that there are so many regular students in Switzerland already.

We hope that many players will seize this opportunity to improve and have fun.

Annual General Meeting

Shanti — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:57:47 +0000

Click here for full information and agenda

La prochaine Assemblée Générale de la Fédération Belge de Go aura lieu le 29 janvier de 14 à 18h au Fourquet, à Bruxelles.
La Fédération recherche aussi activement des membres pour faire partie du conseil d'administration ou s'occuper d'une activité en particulier, par exemple le site internet, l'organisation des tournois, la promotion... Toutes les initiatives, même petites, sont les bienvenues. Si vous êtes intéressé, vous pouvez nous contacter à board@gofed.be.

Conformément aux statuts, si tous les membres peuvent assister à l'AG, seuls les membres effectifs de 2011 auront le droit de vote.
Pour être membre effectif 2011, il suffit :
- d'être membre en règle de cotisation 2011
- de demander le statut de membre effectif au conseil d'administration (ou d'avoir accepté ce statut à la demande du CA, comme c'est le cas des responsables de club), en envoyant simplement un courriel à board@gofed.be

De jaarlijkse Algemene Vergadering van de BGF op 29/01 van 14 u tot 18 u in Le Fourquet, Bruxelles
De Federatie zoekt ook leden die deel willen uitmaken van het bestuur of die één of andere taak willen uitvoeren, zoals meewerken aan de website,promotie, ... Als je geïnteresseerd bent dan kan je ons contacteren via "board@gofed.be".

Overeenkomstig de statuten kunnen alle leden deelnemen aan de vergadering, maar enkel effectieve leden van 2011 hebben stemrecht. Om effectief lid te worden, volstaat het om lidgeld betaald te hebben in 2011 en het statuut van effectief lid te hebben aangevraagd bij het bestuur (of het aanvaard te hebben op vraag van het bestuur zoals de clubverantwoordelijken).

Participation au salon Destination Manga

Shanti — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:52:04 +0000

La Fédération belge de Go participera au salon Destination Manga. Si vous désirez profiter de cette occasion pour partager votre amour du Go, contactez-nous à board at gofed.be !

2nd Pandanet European Team Championship Round 4 Belgium - Austria

Shanti — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:29:53 +0000

Great, we played this one very well. Congratulations!
Find the games on the website.

Belgium	Austria	Score
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d	Viktor Lin (Sandmann) 5 dan	0-1
Jan Ramon (janr) 4d	Wolfgang Krames (Koffein) 3 dan	1-0
Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d	Schayan Hamrah (schayan355) 2 dan	1-0
Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1d	Bojan Cvjetkovic (Geas) 1 dan	1-0

Belgian Championship Preliminaries 2012

Shanti — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:29:13 +0000

Up to twenty players took part to the Belgian Championship last week. It's always an interesting tournament, with ghost players emerging from the shadows, and surprises in the results even in games played with a large gap of level.

Results are online, congratulations to all! Finals will take place on 3rd, 4th, 17th and 18th March 2012, and we'll try to find a quiet place to guarantee seriouse games.

Tournament information page

Interclub 2011 results

robby — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:44:37 +0000

Dear Belgian Go-players,

The 2011 interclub season has come to an end with an exciting final round.
After the first half of the season Leuven had a strong lead, but in the second half Gent gained the lead. In the decisive final round, Gent won against Leuven with 3-0.

Antwerpen picked up the pace in the second half, but could not help getting third place with 4 point. Leuven got 6 points, and Gent has 8, and takes the interclub cup from Leuven.

Congratulations to all three teams !

This was the first time double rounds were played, due to the "record" number of teams participating. As organiser, my impression is that with three or four teams participating, playing double rounds is feasible if the captains are motivated. A little bit of prompting from the organiser seems to be enough to get all rounds to be played within a good time frame.

I would like to thank Philip Vlummens, Kris Boyen and Marcel Van Herck for speedy and correct transmission of results.

I hope to see a lot of teams in the 2012 interclub tournament !

Cheers,
Robby Goetschalckx,
Interclub Organiser

2nd Pandanet European Team Championship Round 3 Finland - Belgium

Shanti — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:52:08 +0000

This round against Finland was a big challenge, since their team had been undefeated till now. However, we managed to achieve an impressive win on board 4, congratulations!
Find the games on the website.

Finland	Belgium	Score
Jesse Savo (Werfeus) 4d	Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d	1-0
Mikko Siukola (Kettu) 4d	Jan Ramon (janr) 4d	1-0
Antti Hopappa (goantti) 3d	Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d	1-0
Oiva Moisio (AncientRib) 2d	Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1d	0-1

Japan Expo Belgium

Shanti — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:37:18 +0000

The Belgian Go Federation was present at the Japan Expo Belgium on Nov. 4th-6th. It was great, there were many people eager to learn Go, and we distributed about 400 leaflets with Go clubs addresses; we hope to have as many new players!

The place was very noisy and busy; teaching Go is not easy when the players can't even sit and the teacher can't talk louder than the Japanese drums. We invite all interested players to join the nearest club or try KGS to play online. Note: there is a small mistake in the papers, the club organizing lessons for beginners is located in 1083 Ganshoren (not 1038). More info on the clubs page.

Dear new players, don't try to buy hundreds of books to get started. Don't even watch Hikaru again. Just play, play many many games, and you'll become very strong soon. Good luck!

6th KPMC Final in Korea

Shanti — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:01:06 +0000

Lucas Neirynck represented Belgium at the 6th KPMC in Korea. He did a great result: he won against Uffe HOLMSGAARD RASMUSSEN (Denmark), Rory WALES (Ireland) and Ron Lavi (Israel), and lost against Satoshi HIRAOKA (Japan), Gabriel Benmergui (Argentina) and King Yau Anson NG (Hong Kong). He is the 24th player out of 70, which is a nice achievement regarding the rude competition.
Complete results here: http://www.eurogofed.org/results/world/kpmc2011.htm

Results of the 26th Brussels Tournament

Shanti — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:52:39 +0000

The 26th Brussels Tournament took place on Oct. 29th and 30th in Palais du Midi, Brussels.

The Belgian Go Federation organized it and 77 participants took part. There were players from all around Europe, and even further: Belgium of course, but also Hungary, Germany, France, Great-Britain, Turkey, Finland, Slovakia, Poland, but also Brazil, China and Korea!

It was an Ecup tournament level 4, in five rounds MacMahon.

The last round was very exciting because six top players (Csaba Mero, Chen Lei, Vincent van Gelderen, François Gonze, Simon Billouet and Kang Kyoungnang) had already three wins and one loss; note the achievement of François, Belgian 4d, who managed to beat two 6d.

Finally, after a very long and breath-taking game between Kang and Csaba, that was observed passionately by dozens of players in live but also about 150 players on KGS, Csaba managed a win by 3,5 and took the first place.

It was a great tournament and we hope to have even more players next year. Congratulations to all!

Links:

Full Results

Top players games (should be online soon)

Complete tournament information

For Belgian players, commented games of this tournament will be sent shortly by email to all members.