Belgian Go Federation

Lucas Neirynck (4D, Louvain-La-Neuve) has won the 21st edition of the Leuven tournament. After 5 rounds he remained undefeated. Second place was shared by Jan Ramon (4D, Leuven) who only lost to Neirynck, and Christopher Annachachibi (1D!, Le Pantin), who also only lost to Neirynck. Also good scores for David Katchaturian (4k, Le Pantin) and Philip Kocks (20k, Gent) with 4/5 and Maarten Savels (11k, Gent) with 5/5!

Full results

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Voici un ensemble de règles permettant de choisir les représentants belges à certaines compétitions internationales. Ces règles ont été discutées par le CA courant 2010.

Lisez les règles ici (version française). Si vous désirez les traduire en néerlandais, merci de contacter le board...

Finales du Championnat de Belgique 2010
1. Jan Ramon 4d
2. François Gonze 3d
3. Alain Wettach 4d
4. Thomas Connor 3d
5. Kwinten Missiaen 1d
Préliminaires du Championnat de Belgique 2011
1. Kévin Prist 2k
2. Nelis Vets 2d
3. Christopher Annachachibi 1d
4. Dominique Versyck 1k
5. Lucas Neirynck 4d

There was a mistake in the first list. Note that those players have been selected for the Final tour (5-6 and 19-20/03/11)

Unfortunately, once again, the strengh difference proved to be too great: Belgium lost 0-4 to Danemark in the 4th round (played 25/01/11)...

Results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/13

Despite the fact that no Belgian player has lost against a (on paper) weaker opponent up till now, Belgium has only 2 points after the 4 first rounds...(looks like typical Belgian Eurovision score, isn'it ?! :-) 

Beligum - Poland 0-4

- Pantin got last place with 2 points, having played only two rounds (despite being by far the largest club in Belgium !)
- Antwerpen got fourth place with 6 points
- Namur - previous champions - became third with 7 points and 13 'ponderated' points
- Gent got second place with 7 points and 14 ponderated points
- Leuven is the new winner with 8 points.

Congratulations to Leuven ! The trophy, currently held be Namur, will now go to Leuven.

Belgium lost 1-3 to United Kingdom, who was average +/- 3 stones/levels stronger.
Dominik Versyk (1-k) managed to beat his 3-d opponent ! Congratulations to him !

Complete results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/news

Israel – Belgium 3-1

The Preliminaries of the 2011 Belgian Championship were held this week-end in Brussels. We can notice the outstanding results of Kevin Prist who won the first place. Congratulations to all the 20 players!

Five best players:
1. Prist Kévin
2. Vets Nelis
3. Annachachibi Christopher
4. Versyck Dominique
5. Neirynck Lucas

Full results.

They will play the final tour (5th, 6th, 19th and 20th March 2011) against the five first finalists of 2010: Jan Ramon, François Gonze, Alain Wettach, Thomas Connor and Kwinten Missiaen.