Belgian Go Federation

39th Brussels Tournament 1st and 2nd November 2025

 

Tournament format

Five rounds MacMahon without handicap
Timing: 1 hour per player + byo-yomi: 15 stones for 5 minutes
Komi: 6.5

Non-smoking tournament

Registration and entry Fee

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8Iuhl91V9i72HEnmFrhg0UbJoEjC4...

• 25€ for registration and payment before 20/10/2025
• 30€ after 20/10/2025 (included)
• +5€ for Belgian players, non-member of the BGF
• -5€ for Players born after 29/10/2007

You can pay the fee by transfer on our bank account (IBAN: BE24 7755 9621 2238) (BIC: GKCC BE BB) with the communication : "Brussels" + your name + your rank. For international transfers, further information about the bank account of the Belgian Go Federation can be found at the bottom of this page.

Please note that you only qualify for the early registration fee if the the payment arrives before 20/10/2025. It is your responsibility to take into account the possible delay of your bank in transferring money.

Players from outside the Euro zone facing high bank transfer costs, qualify for the early registration fee if they register online before 20/10/2025.

If you pre-register and can not make it for the first round, you are expected to notify the organization by sending an email to board@gofed.be before the start of the round. Once your registration fee has been received, you will be paired for the first round. You only have to confirm your presence if there are mistakes in your name or rating on our wall-list. You can cancel your registration by warning us. Before 20/10/2025, 12€ will be refunded, after 20/10/2025 only 7.5€.

Prizes

Prizes are guaranteed for all the players with 4 wins (30 €) or 5 wins (50 €).
Prizes for top places are determined by the MMS score and SOS. Prizes are divided equally if both MMS and SOS are equal.
In case we have less than 50 registrations, prizes money will be: 1st. 250 €, 2nd: 150 € ; 3rd: 75 €; If 50 or more, they will be 1st: 400 €, 2nd: 200 €, 3rd: 100 €.

Schedule

Saturday (GMT +2)

10:00 - Opening of registration
10:40 - Deadline of registration
11:00 - First Round
14:00 - Second Round
16:30 - Third Round

Sunday (GMT +1 !!)

10:00 - Fourth Round
13:00 - Fifth Round
16:30 - Prize giving

Venue

Address

Belgium-China Association
Avenue Paul Deschanel 92
1030 Brussels

How to get there

The tournament location is 20 minutes walking from the Brussel North train station (Brussel-Noord / Bruxelles-Nord)
2 minutes away from the tram station Côteaux
15 minutes away from the metro station Botanique
 

Accommodation

Private accommodation is available, but quite restricted.

Youth Hostels in the vicinity :

• Bruegel Hostel
• Jacques Brel Hostel

You will also find a very large number of hotels within close range of the playing venue.
Here are a few of them :

• Atlas Hotel
• Hotel Novotel Brussels Centre Tour Noire

Results past editions

2024
2023
2022
2021
2020: not organized due to Covid-crisis
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989: not organised
1988: complete results not available
1987
1986: complete results not available
1985: complete results not available

Former podiums of the Brussels Tournament

Tournament	Year	Winners	2nd	3rd	numbers of player (among whom # 4d or stronger)
1	1985	Pierre Colmez, 5D	Jean Michel, 4D	Frank Janssen, 4D	86 (8)
2	1986	Frank Janssen, 5D	André Moussa, 5D	?, ?	? (?)
3	1987	Pierre Colmez, 5D	Frank Janssen, 5D	Jean Michel, 5D	108 (6)
4	1988	Yoo Jong-Su, 7D	David Schoffel, 5D	?, ?	86 (6)
-	1989	no tournament
5	1990	Guo Juan, 7D	Ronald Schlemper, 7D	Alexei Lazarev, 6D	116 (24 !)
6	1991	Sheng Guanji, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	Frank Janssen, 6D	112 (28 !)
7	1992	Sheng Guanji, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	David Schoffel, 5D	90 (16)
8	1993	Sheng Guanji, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	Jean-François Séailles, 5D	100 (15)
9	1994	Sheng Guanji, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	Jean-François Séailles, 5D	90 (12)
10	1995	Guo Juan, 7D	Zhang Shutai, 7D Wataru Miyakawa, 6D	Pierre Colmez, 5D	84 (10)
11	1996	Guo Juan, 7D	Miyakawa Wataru, 6D	Farid Ben Malek, 5D	112 (15)
12	1997	Park Sang Nam, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	Vladimir Danek, 6D	108 (12)
13	1998	Geert Groenen, 5D	Vladimir Danek, 6D Franz-Josef Dickhut, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	100 (10)
14	1999	Guo Juan, 7D	Pierre Colmez, 5D	Geert Groenen, 6D	70 (8)
15	2000	Guo Juan, 7D	Vladimir Danek, 6D Emil Nijhuis, 5D	Geert Groenen, 6D	66 (7)
16	2001	Guo Juan, 7D	Paul Drouot, 5D	Filip Vanderstappen, 5D	76 (9)
17	2002	Guo Juan, 7D	Frédéric Donzet, 5D	Ion Florescu, 6D	80 (9)
18	2003	Noguchi Motoki, 6D	Guo Juan, 7D	Vladimir Danek, 6D	75 (8)
19	2004	Franz-Josef Dickhut, 6D	Zhao Pei, 6D	Radek Nechanicky, 6D	108 (9)
20	2005	Cho Seok Bin, 7D	Radek Nechanicky, 6D	Li Jingrui, 6D	111 (8)
21	2006	Cho Seok Bin, 7D	Jan Ramon, 4D	Ondrej Silt, 6D	86 (11)
22	2007	Cho Seok Bin, 7D	Radek Nechanicky, 6D	Say Boon Ng, 4D	85 (5)
23	2008	Zou Lin, 6D	Ondrej Silt, 6D	Li Yue, 6D	99 (6)
24	2009	Dai Junfu, 7D	Hwang In-Seong, 7D	Yangqi Zhang, 6D	89 (7)
25	2010	Cho Seok Bin, 7D	Csaba Merö, 6D	Kyoungnang Kang, 6D	74 (7)
26	2011	Csaba Merö, 6D	Chen Lei, 6D	Vincent Van Gelderen, 4D	76 (9)
27	2012	Pavol Lisy, 6D	Ondrej Silt, 6D	Lluis Oh, 6D	61 (9)
28	2013	Zhang Yuanbo, 4D	Antoine Fenech, 5D	Benjamin Blanchard, 3D	47 (5)
29	2014	Vladimir Danek, 5D	Kim Ouweleen, 4D	Olivier Drouot, 3D	42 (3)
30	2015	Bogdan Zhurakovskyi, 5D	Olivier Drouot, 3D	Antoine Fenech, 5D	71 (2)
31	2016	Fabien Lips, 4D	Lucas Neirynck, 5D	Antoine Fenech, 5D	63 (4)
32	2017	Jonas Welticke, 6D	Chen Qi, 4D	Oscar Vazquez, 5D	58 (6)
33	2018	Lucas Neirynck, 6D	Wang Zichen, 4D	Jan Ramon, 4D	59 (4)
34	2019	Jan Ramon, 4D	Sven Cuyt, 1k	Dick Riedeman, 3D	38 (1)
-	2020	(not organized-Covid)
35	2021	Lucman Bounoider, 3D	He JinMing, 3D	Louis Baudaux, 1k	32 (0)
36	2022	Jia Hui Chen, 5D	Zihan Yan, 6D	He JingMing, 3D	52 (2)
37	2023	Cornel Burzo, 7D	Zihan Yan, 6D	Xin Shu, 5D	66 (4)
38	2024	Kaku Maekawa, 6D	Xinghong Chen, 5D	Haohan Wu, 5D	53 (6)