Belgian Go Federation

On the 14-15th of March was standing the "Made in Asia" convention, at Brussels Expo. The BGF had a 27m^2 stand to hold. Only four people had a badge and stayed the both days, but additionnal players (we were maybe 8) came to help them taking care of all the "eager young minds" requesting to learn Go.

On the Saturday : it took half an hour to people to come, then we've quickly been saturated with people, during almost all the day.
On the Sunday : There were a very few less people at the convention, and we were only 5 to ensure the teaching, but the stand remained full most of the time.

Most of people came in couple, had heard about the game thanks to Hikaru no Go. Some were attracted by the magnetic giant goban, and had no idea what game was it.

The mood was relaxed, we have 10 people interested by a "beginner session" to contact. A lot more seemed enthousiastic about the game, and will probably talk about it around, which is a good publicity for the game.

Special thanks to Cedric Declerfayt who brang the gear to the convention, and to Jean-Denis Hennebert who came to bring it back on the Sunday evening.

Daniel French

You can find pictures here.

Here are the results of the first game of this first edition of the Cosmic Go League: (the first named had White)

1. Connor Thomas - Vanborm Hicham : 1-0
2. Gonze François - Annachachibi Christopher : 1-0
3. Neirynck Lucas - Fain Simon : 0-1
4. Missiaen Kwinten - Safran Aron : 1-0
5. Tolmatchef Frédéric - Annachachibi Kevin : 0-1
6. Malef Dimitris - Lucke André : 1-0
7. Prist Kevin - Ver Hoeye Martin : 1-0

bye: Duvernoy Jean-François (which is now sure of playing the next 5 games)

The games were played on 15th March at Outpost.

I hope we'll be at least 20 in two weeks (29th March), there might be chocolate brownies =)

the schedule for the interclub tournament of 2009 has been put online here. Rounds will take place in April, May, September, October and November.

What about playing frequent, serious and ranked games in a convivial atmosphere with players from the whole country?
Join the Cosmic Go League: free and open to any member of the Belgian Go Federation!
More info:
- in French
- in Dutch
- in English

The go club "Le Chaff" is now the "Phénix Go Club" and moved to a new place.

Phénix Go Club

Local player and co-organiser Jan Ramon (4D) has won the 19th edition of the Leuven Go Tournament. He was just a few SOSOS points ahead of François Gonze (Louvain-La-Neuve,2D) who defeated in the last round T.Mark Hall (UK,4D). Hall finished on rang 3. There was also a good result for Kwinten Missiaen (5/5), and Marie Jemine, Vincent Lochen, Kenny Debacq, Maarten Fabré and Laure Lambaerts (4/5).

Full results

The season 2008 of interclubs is over. The clubs of Antwerp, Le Chaff, Ghent, Leuven, Namur and Le pantin fought for the title, which was won by the Namur Go club. Congratulations!

53 interclub games were played. The interclubs proved to be still very popular; many players took part in three rounds or more. Some players deserve a special mention : Kenny Debacq, Kris Van Bael and Kris Boyen played in all rounds.

Thanks to all captains and club members for their commitment. Hope to see all of you for the season 2009!

Results :

 
The Belgian Go Federation will be represented at Made In Asia on 14th and 15th March 2009. During the whole weekend, initiations and demonstrations will be organized in order to make Go more popular.

Find more info on madeinasia.be.

Full results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship are now available here.