Belgian Go Federation

Dear Go players,

As planned but with a bit of delay, we have finally decided for a technical solution for a NEW BEAUTIFUL BIG GOFED WEBSITE.

The project has started. It looks promising. It's not finished. We can't show it yet.
But it's advancing and most of the main technical issues that makes such project complicated are already solved.
Development to start again seriously by September with the goal to provide you something you can click on by the end of the year.

What can we say about the prototype ? It's done with Symfony framework - PHP and MySQL.

Hoping that this time, it will not be another political promise... :)

In the meantime, have some great holidays !
Michael Silcher
President of the Belgian Go Federation ASBL/VZW

Kevin Prist (3-d) has won the 15th edition of the tournament of Ghent, ahead of our young rising star Joachim Laloux (4-k; 14 years old) and Bram Vandenbon (2-d).
To be noticed: Guillaume De Keijser (4-k) win against Bram.
There were 9 participants.

Complete results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/662

Don't miss one the few Belgian tournaments: https://www.gofed.be/node/1504

Tianfang Ma from China has won the 2025 edition of the WAGC (World Amateur Go Championship), ahead of Japanese Minoru Ozeki (2nd) and Korean Sawoo Kim (3rd).
They all got 7 wins out of 8 rounds (Ozeki won against Ma but lost to Kim, who lost to Ma).

Among the 4 players with 6 wins, Lukas Podpera (CZ, 7-d) ended 6th and is the best Western competitor.

Our guy this year was Kevin Prist (3-d). He ended 30th out of a field of 52 players, with a 4 wins/4 defeats score. To be noticed: he managed to beat Geert Groenen (NL, 6-d) !

Complete results: https://leago.gg/event/wagc2025/standings/r/7

François Gonze won the 2025 Leuven tournament ahead of (with one SODOS point) Lucman Bounoider, both ended with 4 points out of 5.
This is his 4th triumph in Leuven (he had aleady won it in 2014, 2016 and 2019)
Three players got also 4 points: young Belgian rising star Joachim Laloux (14 years old), Guillaume Léo and Kevin Durant.
To mention: the return of an old figure: Guy Belmans has played his 1st Belgian tournament since...2003.
There were 25 participants.
Complete results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/660

Lucman Bounoider (3-d) won all his games in the 2nd edition of the Hoshi Brussels tournament (05-06/ 04), ahead of Olivier Drouot (3-d), Kevin Prist (3-d) and Yannick Kyu (1-k).

There were 14 participants.

Complete results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/657

https://www.gofed.be/node/1484

On the first weekend of Juli, the 5th and 6th, the Gent Go Tournament will take place. You can register here.

Tournament set-up

System: 6 rounds MacMahon
Time limit: 45 min
Byo-yomi: 5*20 sec Japanese
Rules: Japanese
Komi: 6,5

More info