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NewsThrilling Three-Way Tie at the 2025 Belgian Blitz ChampionshipThe 22nd Belgian Blitz Championship took place today, and while the field featured only six players, the level of competition was as fierce as ever. The lineup was stacked: Belgium’s number one ranked player Lucman Bounoider, arriving with his freshly earned 4-dan rating; the reigning 2024 Blitz Champion, Olivier Drouot; and the rapidly rising new shodan, Yannick Kuy. The format followed Japanese rules: each player had 12 minutes of main time with a single 10-second byoyomi, and all games were hosted on the Online Go Server. The Drama UnfoldsEvery match was hard-fought, and when the dust settled, the top three players found themselves locked in a perfect circle of victories: Lucman (4 wins) – his only loss came against Olivier. Olivier (4 wins) – his only loss came against Yannick. Yannick (4 wins) – his only loss came against Lucman. Even the tie-breakers couldn’t separate them. With identical SOS and SODOS scores, the championship crown was shared. Final Standings1st place Olivier Drouot – 4 wins – 2025 Belgian Blitz Co-Champion! A Historic ResultFor the first time in recent memory, the Belgian Blitz Championship crowns three champions in a single year—a testament to the incredible level of play and balance among Belgium’s top competitors. Congratulations to our 2025 Belgian Blitz Champions: Olivier, Lucman, and Yannick!
Coming soon - save the date: 2025 Belgian Championship of rapid games: Sunday 07/09 2 PM till 6 PMEnjoy the only official Belgian tournament played on line.
Coming soon (Saturday 23/08 PM): "Go to the sea": initiation - quick games tournament - free games"Do you feel like enlarging the number of go players in Belgium while enjoying the Belgian littoral ? Come in Bredene on Saturday 23/08 PM.
NEW GO FEDERATION SITE : possibly maybeDear 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. 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 !
Kevin Prist (3-d) winner in Ghent for the second time in a rowKevin 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). Complete results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/662
Last call: 15th Ghent tournament 05+06/07Don't miss one the few Belgian tournaments: https://www.gofed.be/node/1504
Chinese Tianfang Ma (8-d) 2025 world amateur champion; Kevin Prist (3-d) 30th with 4 wins (out of 8 rounds)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). 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
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