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NewsWelcome to the Belgian Go Federation Website !If you are new in the World of Go, just click here to learn more about this game ! And what about an initiation in French or in Dutch ? No matter whether you're a member or not, you can communicate with the Belgian Go community join us on Facebook. If you are a member of the Belgian Go Federation, you can log in on the left column; if you are a member but do not have yet an account, contact your club president, he/she will create an account for you. If you have any question, you can ask us at info@gofed.be
European pro qualification tournamentThis year, a 6th European professional player will be selected by a qualifying tournament in which about (*) the 16 best - amateur, of course - European players take part. (*) some are missing: the Mitic brothers, Fionin, Debarre,... It is a knock-out tournament with "2 lives" for the 3 first round (after, normal K-O). The 3 first rounds are played in Wien on 15+16/06 and the 3 final rounds in Czechia on 13+14/07... Results here: http://www.eurogofed.org/proqualification/index_2017.html PS: the favorites: Kravets, Le Calvé, Podpera, Pop. Update: the quarter finals are: You find a detailed survey here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=133
Alexander Dinerstein wins 9th Kido CupAlexander Dinerstein (RU, 3p) won the 9th Kido Cup in Hamburg, with just one defeat, just like Pavol Lisy (Sk, 1p). But Alexander has won their encounter. Complete results: http://www.dgob.de/tourn/tourn.cgi?f=17dekit8.txt&mode=cml Note that none of the three 6d amateurs could beat a pro..
Chinese Bai BaoXiang once again best amateur in the world (38th World Amateur Championship)Chinese Bai from China remained undefeated (8 out of 8) like last year, and is thus definitively the best amateur in the world. There were no competitor with 7 victories, but 8 with 6. On basis of SOS tiebreaker, Lee Sangbin (South Korea) ended 2nd and Lai Yu Cheng (C. Taipei) 3rd (despite having been beaten by Lukas Podpera from Czechia). Best caucasian player was: Daniel Ko (USA) (#4) Note the participation of a North Korean competitor (#6), who did well but was rather unfortunate: he lost by 0,5 pt a long time winning game against Lee from South Korea (!) and he gave a hard time to Bai, losing to him by 1,5 pt). There was no Belgian representative this year. More info here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=130
European Team Championship: Belgium lost the test-match against Norway and is demoted to C-class :-(Belgian team had to win a test-match against Norway to maintain itself in B-league (cf. https://www.gofed.be/node/1040). Unfortunately, our team lost - by a hair's breadth (2-3) so that next year Belgium will play in C-league. :-( Lucas and Nelis won, but François, Kwinten and Gabriel lost. Here are the completed results: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/404
AlphaGo retires from competition after humiliating humankind !As expected, during the AI summit in Wuzhen (cf. https://www.gofed.be/node/1036), AlphaGo (AG) swept all its human opponents: Ke Jie, the best player in the word (3-0 !) and the team composed by 5 top Chinese professional (1-0). Unexpected was the announcement by DeepMind that this games were the last ones AG had played and that they hence turn their interest to other domains than go...(the question "how many handicap stones a top pro would need to beat it" will thus remains open! :-( DeepMind won't (unfortunately) communicate AG's program, but they will publish an article in "Nature" (a famous scientific review). They also have released 50 games played by AG against itself... Most of them are full of creative/ strange moves...In this video, Hwang In-seong (8d) showed the revolution in the way of thinking AG has brought (high level,in English!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_JmGH8Iu8 More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Go_Summit Many articles were published during this event: among dozens of them: A extended press review (in French): http://rfg.jeudego.org/item/320-wuzhen-ou-le-dernier-tournoi-d-alphago
Results of the 7th season of the European team championship (2016-2017)The European team championship season 2016-2017 is over, expect Final standings: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps The top teams qualified for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals 2017 are: Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary. The finals will be played in Oberhof, on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd July 2017. This year Finland will drop out from the League A to the League B and Poland will join the League A as the winner of the League B. Germany and Italy will play the A/B deciding match 30th May.
11th (and last round) of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Slovakia 2-2 --> Belgium in a test match15/05: despite presenting the probably best team possible (Gerald Westhoff 6d; Lucas Neirynck 5d; François Gonze 4d; Jan Ramon 4d), Belgian team did not manage to do better than a draw against our direct competitor, Slovakia. And still, we had to win this match as to avoid to match a test-match against the winner of the C-league (Norway)to determine whether we'll still play in B-league next year of be demoted to the C-league. True, the mission was difficult because the Slovakian best player being Pavol Lisy, a professional player (who defeated as expected Gerald), the Belgians had to win on all the 3 other boards. And this nearly happened: Lucas and Jan won... Now, Belgium had to overcome Norway on 30/05...otherwise we play in C-league the next season ! Complete results of the round: Final standings:
Lucman Bounoider (2d) is 2017 Belgian blitz championIt is pity: there were just 4 participants in this 2017 edition of the Belgian championship of quick games (15 min pp.). -( Lucman Bounoider (2d) remained indeafed and is the new Belgian blitz champion, ahead of Michael Silcher (5k) (2/3), young Louis Baudaux (6k) (1/3) and Jean-Denis Hennebert (5k) (0/3). Hopefully, more people will participate next year in this fun tournament...
10th Ghent Tournament - Registration is openRegistration for the 10th Ghent tournament is now open! Please follow this link for all relevant informations.
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