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NewsChinese Bao Xiang Bai is world amateur championIn the 37th edition of the WAGC, Chinese Baoxiang Bai defeated everyone by resignation (except Japanese ex-world champion Satoshi he beats by 2,5 points) to win his second world amateur championship (he had won 5 years ago) with - one again - a perfect 8-0 record. Korean Kibaek Kim finish clear second at 7-1. Six players ended with 6-2 records, Chinese Taipei’s Chia-Cheng took 3rd place, ahead of Andreii Kravets (UK), 4th and best European, Japanese Hiraoka Satoshi, Hungerian Csaba Mero, Serbian Dusan Mitic, and Romanian Cristian Pop.. Our representative was Nelis Vets, who ended 28th out of a field of 56 competitors with "expected" results (wins against Mongolia, Argentina, Portugal and Malaysia; defeats to China (!), Slovenia, Czechia and France). More details here: http://www.ranka.intergofed.org/
Belgian Blitz Championship 2016Thomas Connor, 4d won with 7/7 the Blitz Championship 2016. Eight players took part in the round on Sunday 5th June in the cite center of Brussels. Complete results:
9th edition of Ghent Go Tournament 2nd and 3rd july 2016On the weekend of July 2nd everyone's welcome at the 9th edition of the Ghent Go Tournament.
Results of the first Pantin TournamentIn the weekend of 15 and 16 May go club 'Le Pantin' held its first ever tournament. The tournament was won by Olivier Drouot and had 21 participants. Full Results
Ilya Shikchin (RU, 1-p) wins Kido CupIlya Shikchin (RU, 1-p) wins unbeaten the 2016 Kido Cup, in which 4 out of the 5 new European professionals participated, along with 4 top amateurs. 2nd: Ali Jabarin (IL, 1-p) who only lost to Shickhin. Here are the complete results: http://www.kidocup.com/?Ergebnisse PS: there were no less than 177 participants in the "main" (open section) tournament ! impressive !
11th (and last) round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Austria 3-1On 17th May, Belgium team (Lucas +, Kwintens +, Nelis -, Gabriel +) won against Austria (to be noted: Lucas' victory on Viktor Lin, 6-d, one of the top European player) Belgium ended finally 8th out of 12 teams in B-League. Here are the results of the round: And here the standings after this round: In A-league, the 4 best teams (Russia, Ukrainia, Romania and France) will compete against each others for the final victory during the European Go Congress in St-Petersburgh...
10th round of European Team Championship: Belgium - Israel 0-4End April, Belgian team (Jan, Nelis, Dominique, Gabriel) lost heavily (0-4), like the 2 previous month, this time against the future champion of B-League, Israël (pity for Jan on table 1: Ali Jabarin, the pro, did not play). There is now a last round to be played. With 2 points more than the potentially descending teams, Belgium should avoid relegation... Here are the results of the round: And here the standings after this round:
Go movie at the China Cultural Center in BrusselsThe recently open China Cultural Center in Brussels will show a movie related to go on the 9th and 11th of May. It is open to everyone and free, but it is necessary to register in advance. More information on: http://www.cccbrussels.be/coming-soon/cs-events/chinese-movie-nights-the...
2nd European Grand Slam Tournament in BerlinThe most (qualitatively) important European tournament of the year was organized this WE in Berlin (top amateurs had to fight in a preliminary tournament to join the European pros for this Grand Slam tournament). Ali Jabarin (1-p, IL) won 1st prize (10.000 € !) by beating in final Artem Kachanovski (1-p, UA) Here are the results: Preliminary round Quater Final Semi-Final Final: Small Final: Mateusz Surma vs Pavol Lisy B+Resign
Dominique Versyck (2-d) wins in LiègeDominique Versyck (2-d) made his comeback into Belgian go life by winning the 1st edition of the tournament of Liège. Second was Guillaume Lescuyer (2-k) There were an encouraging 22 participants. Complete results:
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