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NewsEuropean championship 2017The European go congress has just begun. The "open" championship (with some very strong non-Asiatic competitors) is no less captivating.
By winning the 2017 pro qualification tournament, Andreii Kravets (UA, 7d) becomes the new (6th) EGF proBy winning the 2017 pro qualification tournament, Ukranian Andreii Kravets (7d) becomes the new (6th) EGF pro. He defeated in final young Austrian Viktor Lin. Andrii was one of the favorites: according to the EGF rating list, he is (...was !) the strongest European amateur player, and he had lost in the final last year to his compatriot Artem Kachanovskyi... Congratulations to him ! Complete results: The big surprise was the young Oscar Vasquez from Spain, who reached the 1/4 finals. Oscar had climbed from 2-d to 4-d after few month training in China. He is just 14 years old ! Read the report by EGF here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=138
Bram Vandenbon (2d) wins in GhentBram Vandenbon is the winner of the 2017 edition of the Gentse Go Toernoi (he was already holding the title). There were 13 participants. Here are the results: https://www.gofed.be/files/gofed/tournaments/results/GEN2017.txt
Jefferson Huang (aka: Huang Yong-Sen) (3d) wins in AntwerpenIn Antwerpen, Jefferson Huang (3d), back in the official Belgian go life and who had won the 1st edition in 2008, emerged from a field of 8 (a somewhat desappointing figure) players. Still, M. Huang was defeated by Laurens Teirlinck ("8-k") with 8 handicap stones. Laurens, whose progression is constant, was the only competitor who remained unbeaten. Complete results here: https://www.gofed.be/files/gofed/tournaments/results/ANT2017.txt
European pro qualification tournamentThis year, a 6th European professional player will be selected by a qualifying tournament in which about (*) the 16 best - amateur, of course - European players take part. (*) some are missing: the Mitic brothers, Fionin, Debarre,... It is a knock-out tournament with "2 lives" for the 3 first round (after, normal K-O). The 3 first rounds are played in Wien on 15+16/06 and the 3 final rounds in Czechia on 13+14/07... Results here: http://www.eurogofed.org/proqualification/index_2017.html PS: the favorites: Kravets, Le Calvé, Podpera, Pop. Update: the quarter finals are: You find a detailed survey here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=133
Alexander Dinerstein wins 9th Kido CupAlexander Dinerstein (RU, 3p) won the 9th Kido Cup in Hamburg, with just one defeat, just like Pavol Lisy (Sk, 1p). But Alexander has won their encounter. Complete results: http://www.dgob.de/tourn/tourn.cgi?f=17dekit8.txt&mode=cml Note that none of the three 6d amateurs could beat a pro..
Chinese Bai BaoXiang once again best amateur in the world (38th World Amateur Championship)Chinese Bai from China remained undefeated (8 out of 8) like last year, and is thus definitively the best amateur in the world. There were no competitor with 7 victories, but 8 with 6. On basis of SOS tiebreaker, Lee Sangbin (South Korea) ended 2nd and Lai Yu Cheng (C. Taipei) 3rd (despite having been beaten by Lukas Podpera from Czechia). Best caucasian player was: Daniel Ko (USA) (#4) Note the participation of a North Korean competitor (#6), who did well but was rather unfortunate: he lost by 0,5 pt a long time winning game against Lee from South Korea (!) and he gave a hard time to Bai, losing to him by 1,5 pt). There was no Belgian representative this year. More info here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=130
European Team Championship: Belgium lost the test-match against Norway and is demoted to C-class :-(Belgian team had to win a test-match against Norway to maintain itself in B-league (cf. https://www.gofed.be/node/1040). Unfortunately, our team lost - by a hair's breadth (2-3) so that next year Belgium will play in C-league. :-( Lucas and Nelis won, but François, Kwinten and Gabriel lost. Here are the completed results: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/404
AlphaGo retires from competition after humiliating humankind !As expected, during the AI summit in Wuzhen (cf. https://www.gofed.be/node/1036), AlphaGo (AG) swept all its human opponents: Ke Jie, the best player in the word (3-0 !) and the team composed by 5 top Chinese professional (1-0). Unexpected was the announcement by DeepMind that this games were the last ones AG had played and that they hence turn their interest to other domains than go...(the question "how many handicap stones a top pro would need to beat it" will thus remains open! :-( DeepMind won't (unfortunately) communicate AG's program, but they will publish an article in "Nature" (a famous scientific review). They also have released 50 games played by AG against itself... Most of them are full of creative/ strange moves...In this video, Hwang In-seong (8d) showed the revolution in the way of thinking AG has brought (high level,in English!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO_JmGH8Iu8 More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Go_Summit Many articles were published during this event: among dozens of them: A extended press review (in French): http://rfg.jeudego.org/item/320-wuzhen-ou-le-dernier-tournoi-d-alphago
Results of the 7th season of the European team championship (2016-2017)The European team championship season 2016-2017 is over, expect Final standings: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps The top teams qualified for the Pandanet Go European Team Championship Finals 2017 are: Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary. The finals will be played in Oberhof, on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd July 2017. This year Finland will drop out from the League A to the League B and Poland will join the League A as the winner of the League B. Germany and Italy will play the A/B deciding match 30th May.
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