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Yoon Nam-gi (KR, 7d), winner of the 2018 Open European ChampionshipIn an exciting finish, Yoon Nam-gi (KR, 7d) won the Open European Championship. He ended up as the only player with 1 loss. Behind him, 3 players ended with 2 losses, in the order of SOS tie-breaker: Further, 6 players ended with 7 wins out of 10, ranked 6th to 10th. There were in total 900 participants, among whom 9 Belgian ones. Complete results here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WMxarqLdjSBFkxIDAxGYPdAsGpkxkZge/view NEXT YEAR THE EUROPEAN GO CONGRESS IS ORGANIZED IN BRUSSELS. BE THERE !!!
Liao Xingwen (China, 6p) wins the WE tournament of the European Go Congress in PisaThe Weekend Tournament of the European Go Congress in Pisa gathered 653 players (among whom 10 Belgian ones). It has been won by the Chinese pro Liao Xingwen (6p) who remained unbeaten. Behind him, with one defeat: three Korean amateurs: Yoon Nam-gi (2nd), Kim Young-sam (3rd) and Hong Sung-won (4th), Further, among a dozen of competitors with 3 wins, best European are Artem Kachanovskyi and Alexander Dinerstein... Best Belgian is Lucas Neirynck (5d), 28th, with 3/5. Complete results here:
Pavol Lisy, European champion 2018The European championship was organized this year in Pisa, along with the European Go Congress. This competition is reserved to the 32 best European players. The system is a knock-out tournament with 2 "lives (till the 1/4 of finals). The favorites were of course the 7 participating pros. Nevertheless, two of them failed to reach the quarter of finals: Thus three amateurs (7-d): Dusan Mitic (RS), Cristian Pop (RO) and Stanislaw Frejlak (PL), joined five pros in the quaterfinals. But all lost, respectively against Shikchin, Surma and Lisy (proving the gap between pros and amateurs). In the only pro duel, Ali Jabarin eliminated Artem Kachanovskyi. In the semifinals, Ilya Shikchin got rid of Mateusz Surma while Pavol Lisy prevailed on Ali Jabarin. By beating Ilya Shikchin (RU, 2p) in final with 2,5 pts, Pavol Lisy (SK, 2p) became European champion 2018, succeeding to Ilya, who was reigning champion since 2016. Ali Jabarin ended 3rd by winning the "small final". Here are the complete results: PS: our compatriot Lucas Neirynck (# 29 in the EGC ranking list) has the right to compete, but was promptly eliminated with all the honors : he lost in the 1st round to Mateusz Surma (PL, 2p) - one of the "big shots" - and in the 1st round of the looser's pool to Anton Chernykh (RU, 6d).
Leuven wins the 2018 interclubsFollowing the resolution of the General Assembly, the Federation has adopted this year a new formula for the interclubs. They were (supposed to be) organized in 2 rounds: Unfortunately, this new formula met a modest success: only 4 clubs competed (Leuven, Gent, Antwerp and Brussels-Phénix) ! It was decided that the final phase was not necessary, as the 4 best clubs were already known. Leuven emerged as winner with 6 points ahead of Gent (6 pts), Brussels-Phénix (4 pts) and Antwerp (2 pts). Round 1: Leuven-Gent 2-1 Phenix-Antwerp 2-1 Two players played and won 3 games: Gertjan Verhaeren, 8-k (Gent) and Sven Cuyts, 4-k (Leuven).
Wang Zichen won in AntwerpenA few weeks after having won in Liège, Wang Zichen (CH, 4d) also triumphed undefeated in the 2018 edition of the tournament of Antwerpen. 2nd was Huang Yongsen, 1d with 3/5. Bronze medal was Dominique Versyck (2d) (3/5), despite his loss to the young and promising Louis Baudaux (3k). Jelle Janssens (5k) made 4/5. There were 14 participants. Complete results can be found here.
Chan Yi-Tien of Chinese Taipei wins the 39th WAGCChan Yi-Tien (Chinese Taipei) won undefeated the 39th World Amateur Go Championship. He has already been amateur world champion in 2014. Korean Sangcheon Kim was the only player with one loss and took second place. Six players finished with six wins: in that order: Chen Wang (CH), Stanislaw Frejlak (PL)(best Westerner), Fukashi Murakami (JP), Juri Keronen (SF), Dusan Mitic (RS) seventh and Jose Islas (MX). Our representative was Thomas Connor, who ended 32th out of 61 competitors with 4 out of 8 (losses against Oscar Vazquez (SP), Christian Pop (RO), Benjamin Dréan-Guenaiza (FR) and Switzerland; wins against Brazil, Portugal , Venezuela and Macau). Complete results here: https://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/event/amakisen/worldama/39/result.html
Wang Zichen, prince of LiègeWang Zichen from China (4d) won undeafed the tournament of Liège with 4 victories, ahead of Thomas Connor (4d) (3/4) and Marie Jemine (2d) (2/4)... Complete results here:
European team championship: Belgium remained unbeated (draw against Lithuania in last round)Belgian team (Lucas +, Jan +, Gabriel -, Joost -) made a draw against Lithuania (which ends 2nd) in the last round of the 2017-2018 season of the European Team Championship. Belgium ended 1st, with 13/14 points (6 victories, 1 draw). Congratulations to all our players ! Results of the round: Standings: PS: in this competition, an Italian player has been disqualified after being accused of receiving the help of "Leela", a program of professional strenght. Nevertheless, many observers think the cheating is not proven...(to be followed).
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