Belgian Go Federation

26th Brussels Tournament on Oct. 29th and 30th: information (English) and online registration

26e Tournoi de Bruxelles les 29 et 30 octobre: information (français) et inscription en ligne

26str Brussels Go Tornooi 29-30 Oktober, 2011: informatie (Nederlands) en online registratie

Online tournament on IGS - all-amateur event - the winner gets an invitation (travel expenses and accomodation) to observe the 1st SAWMG on Dec. 8th-17th - Register now! Full information: see this link. Good luck!

Jan Ramon 4d was representing Belgium in 2011 World Amateur Go Championship in Japan!

With 3 victories out of 8 rounds (with a hard pairing), he ended 25th in a field of 57 competitors.

Final winner was Bai, the Chinese representative, who remained unbeaten.
2nd was Korean Choi.
3rd, and best Western player, was Eric Liu from USA.
4th, and best European contender, was the Frenchman Thomas Debarre.
5th, and oldest participant (85 y old !): Hirata from Japan (former winner - in 1995).

Find a nice report here: http://ranka.intergofed.org/
(and discover f.i. the incredibly original openings played by the Polish player :-)

WAGC web site

I wanna go to Japan!

Belgium is proud to be part of the First Pandanet Go European Team Championship. Here are our (already) glorious team members (with their IGS IDs):

• Jan Ramon, 4d, janr
• Lucas Neirynck, 4d, Cucurucucu
• Benjamin Gigot, 1d, Pinchilei
• Nelis Vets, 1d, Nelis
• Kwinten Missiaen, 2d, Kwik
• Christopher Annachachibi, 1d, HisokaH
• Dominique Versyck, 1k, dversyck
• Michael Meeschaert, 1k, Boobookan
• Kristof Bossee, 1d, karmeliet
• Marie Jemine, 3k, Shanti
• Vincent Lochen, 4k, GFox

To follow the championship, join the EuropeanTeampChamp on IGS (type F5). I hope you enjoy watching our games online!

The top board of each round will be broadcast on Pandanet with the login bt201001. Other games will also be broadcast with the login bt201002.

Schedule in GMT

Saturday

10:00 - First Round
13:00 - Second Round
15:30 - Third Round

Sunday

09:00 - Fourth Round
12:00 - Fifth Round

The 3 and 4 July, the Gent Go Club will organise the Gent Go Tournament 2010.

More information : http://toshokan.byethost2.com/wiki/index.php/GGT2010
Online registration : http://www.jotform.com/form/1555111263

This year, the WAGC is held in Hangzhou, China, from May 24 to May 31.

Belgium is represented by Alain Wettach.

You can follow the championship at :
http://ranka.intergofed.org/?cat=15
http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/worldama/31/e/index.html
http://canoalain.free.fr/WAGC2010/Pays.html

François Gonze is still leading in the finals of the Belgian Championship. He won all his seven games. Other contenders are Jan Ramon with 6/7 and Thomas Connor with 5/7.

Games of the second weekend will be broadcasted on KGS in the Belgian Room, with the user BelgianGo.

The broadcast will start at 10:30

7 rounds Swiss 1h+20stones/5min, no handicap, free of charge, only for members living in Belgium since more than 1 year.

21/11/2009 from 10:00 to 19:00
22/11/2009 from 11:30 to 18:30

Online Registration (You have to be logged)

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