Belgian Go Federation

A new season. A new challenge. Belgium is ready to compete!

The 2026–2027 Pandanet European Team Championship kicks off this month, and Belgium is gearing up for another exciting campaign against some of Europe's strongest Go teams.

After securing its place in League B last season, Belgium returns determined to build on that success.

Meet Team Belgium

Nine players will represent Belgium this season, bringing experience, talent, and fighting spirit to the board.

1. Lucas Neirynck
2. Lucman Bounoider
3. Jan Ramon
4. Gabriel Mercier
5. Maxim Van Wassenhove
6. Renaud Gaban
7. Felix Van Wassenhove
8. Joost Vannieuwenhuyse
9. Guillaume De Keijser

Support Team Belgium

We look forward to your support throughout the season! Follow the games, cheer on our players, and help Team Belgium make this another memorable campaign.

Nine players. One team. One goal.

Let's go, Belgium!

Résults of the 2026 blitz Belgian championship

1 Olivier Drouot — 6 pts (SODOS : 17) — winner of the Blitz Championship 2026 !
2 Yuanze Gao — 6 pts (SODOS : 16)
3 Yannick Kuy — 5 pts
4 Philippe Tranchida — 4 pts
5 Guillaume De Keijser — 3 pts — Belgian blitz Champion 2026 !
6 Michael Silcher — 2 pt
7 Auguste Elengesa Lekele N’Sele — 1 pt (SODOS : 5)
8 Jean-Denis Hennebert — 1 pt (SODOS : 1)

Congratulations to all the participants !

Not quite totally unexpectfully, the Chinese player, Yu Fu (8-d), is the 2026 world amateur champion in the WAGC. He ended unbeaten (8/8).

Silver medail goes to Japanese Hyo Ka (7-d) with 7/8.

And bronze medail goes to ...an European player ! Lukas Podpera (CZ, 7-d), as best player with 6 wins. Congratulations to him !

Note the surprinsingly desappointing result of the Korean player, Hyeon Seok Kim, who ends 8th with a 5-3 score.

Our guy this year was Bram Vandenbon (2-d). He did great with (also) 5 wins and 3 defeats (*) and an admirable 18th place out of a field of 52 participants.
(wins against: india (1-k), australia (3-d !), mexico (3-k), austria (3-d !), sweden (2-d); defeats to: canada (7-d), argentina (4-d), UK (4-d)

Complete results: https://wagc.go.art.pl/en/2026

It’s that time of year again! A new season of the Pandanet European Team Championship is about to begin, and we’re looking for players to represent Belgium!

Whether you’ve played for the Belgian team before or would like to take part for the first time, you’re very welcome to join. It’s a great opportunity to play serious games, meet players from across Europe and, of course, defend the Belgian colours!

Registration deadline: September 29th
Belgium will once again compete in League B
Games are played online on Pandanet

Who can join?

Players must have Belgian nationality and a Pandanet account.

Don’t have an account yet? You can create one here.

Due to the anti-cheating regulations in League B, participants are also required to join a face-to-face video call during their games. You can find more information about this requirement here.

Ready to join Team Belgium?

To register, fill in the registration form here or send an email to board@gofed.be.

You can also see the list of registered players here.

Every player helps make the Belgian team stronger. Whether you’re aiming for the top boards or simply want to challenge yourself in an international competition, we’d be happy to have you on the team.

Let’s make the 2026–2027 season a great one for Belgium. See you on soon!

Andreii Kravets (UKR, 3-p) wins his 3rd European title (2023-2024-2026) in Ankara, where the European Congress was organised this year.

He won against Ali Jabarin (3-p) in final (poor Ali lost in final of the European Championship for the 5th time !).

Mateusz Surma (PL, 4-p), last year's winner, had lost surprisingly in 1/4 of final against Denis Dobranis (RO, 6-d).

A short report: https://www.eurogofed.org/andrii-kravets-3p-is-the-european-champion-202...

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In the main tournament (open), some strong Korean and Chinese 7-d amateurs have dominated as usual (1st European player ended 7th with a 6/10 score).
Unbeaten winner is Korean Ahn Yonho, with the perfect score of 10 wins in 10 rounds.

https://www.egc2026.com/en/events.html#/main_open/standings

NB: still, Ahn dropped one game in the WE tournament (to Chinese Li Yuanzhen):
https://www.egc2026.com/en/events.html#/week-end/standings

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There were no Belgian participant this year. :-(

Dear members and Go enthusiasts,

As our game and Federation evolves, to serve you better we are thrilled to give you an exclusive first look at the prototype of our future website !
Here it is: https://new.gofed.be/

Developing a new site has been a long saga spanning more than ten years, and sadly it's not the first time that we made such kind of announcement only to disappoint shortly after.
This time, however, it looks very likely to have good chances to cross the finish line thanks to one of our players with alias “Rikikilord” who you maybe know about already. :)

This project is designed to be modern, even futuristic thanks to AI usage with advanced features, above all—better suited to your gaming needs whenever you are a curious passer-by or a Go expert in search of detailed information.
You are of course welcome to get the chance to browse and explore its features.
Warning: Many features can be tried and tested, but pages content is far from being ready

Feedback is welcome at: gofedsite@gofed.be
We're also of course very interested by volunteers for testing, or if you have web coding skills.

More news should be coming in the next few days...

We had a very successful 16th edition of the Ghent Go Tournament with an appropriate 16 participants.

First Place: Matej Zakanj (5d)
Second Place: Renaud Braye (1d)
Third Place: Dick Riedeman (2d)

Complete results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/673