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NewsEuropean team championship: 1st round: Belgium lost heavily to Serbia (0-4)In the 1st round of the 9th edition of the Pandanet Cup (the European Team Championship) played on 2 October Belgian team (Jan , Lucman, Gabriel , Roel) was smashed (0-4) by on-paper stronger Serbian team (in which played the terrible Mitic brothers, both 7-dan). Results of the round:
Chinese Liyan Lyu wins 13th Korean Prime Minister Cup; Bram Vandenbon made 3/6 (25th)The "usual suspects" dominated the 13th edition of the Korean Prime Minister Cup (which is +/- the Korean version of the World Amateur Championship): The (unbeaten) winner was Li Yan Lyu, from China. Behind him followed: Korean Chan Ho Jung, Japanese Fukashi MURAKAMI and ChiHin Chan from Hong Kong (all with 5 victories out of 6 rounds). Best Westerner (and European) was Rob Van Zeijst (NL) who ended 5th. Our representative this year was Bram Vandenbon (2d). Complete results here: http://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/eng/result/gameTable.asp
EGC 2019 - BrusselsAs most of you probably already know, Belgium will host the 2019 EGC in Brussels. We hope to see you all there :)
Pandanet League Team Looking for ParticipantsHello dear all, it's time to *register for Pandanet league season 2018/2019* How it work: about one game played every 3 weeks, on tuesday evening (usually start at 20h) on Pandanet Go Server. Each team has to provide 4 players for the matchs to avoid penalties. Players are selected by Team Captain (me for Belgium) ofr each match. Next season start in september and first match should be around 3rd week of september A team is composed of 6 (min) to 12 players (max). So in order to have flexibility in the choice of players, it's better to have a full team of 12 peoples ! (It's better to have a weak player than no player at all which result in penality). Who can participate ? Any Belgian Citizen which is a member of Belgian Go Federation. You'll have to be ready to play on tuesday evenings (for about 2h30) and ready to be fair-play (you'll have to sign an agreement that you wont cheat, use book or bot during your games), be ready in time for the games and greet the opponents. (And in case of problem, it's the team captains who try to find an arrangement). You want to participate for Belgium ? (which has been promoted in B-League and thus as a chance to participate to qualification tournament in june) ? Please fill this doodle and contact me here, through Facebook, or ask liusasori on KGS Go Server or answering me by email (for older team players). https://doodle.com/poll/9pe53e4npyhcvxa8 Hoping for you to be highly motivated, and ready for the Finals in Brussels ! Your Devoted Belgian Team Captain, Gabriel Mercier.
Registration for the 33rd Brussels Tournament is openThe Belgian Go Federation is happy to let invite you to the 33rd Brussels Go Tournament. Please, follow this link for all information and to register.
Yoon Nam-gi (KR, 7d), winner of the 2018 Open European ChampionshipIn an exciting finish, Yoon Nam-gi (KR, 7d) won the Open European Championship. He ended up as the only player with 1 loss. Behind him, 3 players ended with 2 losses, in the order of SOS tie-breaker: Further, 6 players ended with 7 wins out of 10, ranked 6th to 10th. There were in total 900 participants, among whom 9 Belgian ones. Complete results here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WMxarqLdjSBFkxIDAxGYPdAsGpkxkZge/view NEXT YEAR THE EUROPEAN GO CONGRESS IS ORGANIZED IN BRUSSELS. BE THERE !!!
Liao Xingwen (China, 6p) wins the WE tournament of the European Go Congress in PisaThe Weekend Tournament of the European Go Congress in Pisa gathered 653 players (among whom 10 Belgian ones). It has been won by the Chinese pro Liao Xingwen (6p) who remained unbeaten. Behind him, with one defeat: three Korean amateurs: Yoon Nam-gi (2nd), Kim Young-sam (3rd) and Hong Sung-won (4th), Further, among a dozen of competitors with 3 wins, best European are Artem Kachanovskyi and Alexander Dinerstein... Best Belgian is Lucas Neirynck (5d), 28th, with 3/5. Complete results here:
Pavol Lisy, European champion 2018The European championship was organized this year in Pisa, along with the European Go Congress. This competition is reserved to the 32 best European players. The system is a knock-out tournament with 2 "lives (till the 1/4 of finals). The favorites were of course the 7 participating pros. Nevertheless, two of them failed to reach the quarter of finals: Thus three amateurs (7-d): Dusan Mitic (RS), Cristian Pop (RO) and Stanislaw Frejlak (PL), joined five pros in the quaterfinals. But all lost, respectively against Shikchin, Surma and Lisy (proving the gap between pros and amateurs). In the only pro duel, Ali Jabarin eliminated Artem Kachanovskyi. In the semifinals, Ilya Shikchin got rid of Mateusz Surma while Pavol Lisy prevailed on Ali Jabarin. By beating Ilya Shikchin (RU, 2p) in final with 2,5 pts, Pavol Lisy (SK, 2p) became European champion 2018, succeeding to Ilya, who was reigning champion since 2016. Ali Jabarin ended 3rd by winning the "small final". Here are the complete results: PS: our compatriot Lucas Neirynck (# 29 in the EGC ranking list) has the right to compete, but was promptly eliminated with all the honors : he lost in the 1st round to Mateusz Surma (PL, 2p) - one of the "big shots" - and in the 1st round of the looser's pool to Anton Chernykh (RU, 6d).
Leuven wins the 2018 interclubsFollowing the resolution of the General Assembly, the Federation has adopted this year a new formula for the interclubs. They were (supposed to be) organized in 2 rounds: Unfortunately, this new formula met a modest success: only 4 clubs competed (Leuven, Gent, Antwerp and Brussels-Phénix) ! It was decided that the final phase was not necessary, as the 4 best clubs were already known. Leuven emerged as winner with 6 points ahead of Gent (6 pts), Brussels-Phénix (4 pts) and Antwerp (2 pts). Round 1: Leuven-Gent 2-1 Phenix-Antwerp 2-1 Two players played and won 3 games: Gertjan Verhaeren, 8-k (Gent) and Sven Cuyts, 4-k (Leuven).
Wang Zichen won in AntwerpenA few weeks after having won in Liège, Wang Zichen (CH, 4d) also triumphed undefeated in the 2018 edition of the tournament of Antwerpen. 2nd was Huang Yongsen, 1d with 3/5. Bronze medal was Dominique Versyck (2d) (3/5), despite his loss to the young and promising Louis Baudaux (3k). Jelle Janssens (5k) made 4/5. There were 14 participants. Complete results can be found here.
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