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NewsFinals Belgian Championship 2017, standings after the 1st WE: Lucas and Kwinten still unbeatenAfter the 1st WE (5 rounds played out of the 9), Kwinten Missiaen (3d) and Lucas Neirynck (5d) remained unbeaten. In the "peloton" of players with 3 points: Bram Vandenbon (2d), Jan Ramon (4d), François Gonze (3d) and Gabriel Mercier (2d). Further, Nelis Vets (2d) has 2 points, Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2k), 1 point, and our "rising stars" Louis Baudaux (6k) and Victor Schneider (6k) - who replaced Kevin Prist (3d) and Joris Oren (1k) who were not free - are still waiting for a feat...
8th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Sweden 2-2On 28th of February, Belgian team (Lucas +, Kwinten -, Nelis -, Gabriel +) made draw against Sweden. Complete results of the round: Present standings:
How strong are the home-made European pros ?The go server Tygem has just organized a match between Kim Seung-Jun (also known as "Blackie"), a famous 9 dan professional player, against the 5 home-made European pros (Ilya Shikchine, Pavol Lisy, Artem Kachanovskij, Mateusz Surma and Ali Jabarin). All games were played without komi (Kim playing white, of course). The final score is 3-2 for Kim (Ilya and Mateusz won). Conclusion: according to this result, it seems that "our" pros have really a professional strength: the handicap between top professional players and young beginning professionals is currently estimated to be of 1 to 2 stone/s. More detail here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=99
European Youth championship 2017 results; Sinan Djepov, the Bulgarian go geniusMore than 200 young participants (among whom many Russian ones) played the European Youth Championship organized in Grenoble. There were 3 categories: Under 12 (92 participants !): winner was Ivan Klochikhine (RU, 4k) Under 16 (79 participants): winner was Oscar Vasquez (SP, 3d) (who used to play in Belgium some years ago), ahead of Valeri Krushelnytskyi (UA, 4d) Under 20: the all-Russian podium is composed by Vjacheslav Kajmin (RU, 5d) ahead of the great favourite Grigorij Fionin (RU, 6d) and Anton Chernykh (RU, 5d). Complete results here: *** Another point: did you know Sinan Djepov ?
Lucas Neirynck wins Leuven 2017This year 45 people attended the Leuven Go Tournament.
Ilya Shikshin won 2nd edition of the professional European championshipIlya Shikshin won the 2nd edition of the "European pro European Championship", but only thanks to SOS tie-breaker. Ilya was already open European champion. There were 6 participants: the 5 "home-made (European-made) pros" (Pavol Lisy, Ali Jabarin, Mateusz Surma, Ilya Shikshin and Artem Kachanovsky)were joined by Alexandre Dinerchtein (Russia, 3p in Korea). Missing were the following European pros: Fan Hui (I have heard he decided to stop to play tournaments), Catalin Taranu, Svetlana Shikshina (plus, of course, the European pros who live in far east Asia: Maria Zakharchenko, Antti Törmanen and Diana Köszegi). Enjoy a thorough report here:
7th round of European team championship: Belgium - Croatia 3-1On 7th of February, Belgian team (Gerald -, Jan + - by 40,5 pts against a ex-multi European champion...well, in 1967 and in 1971...but still ! :-), Nelis + - by 0,5 point, oef/ouf -, Gabriel +) picked its 1st victory against the worst placed team, Croatia. This was an important victory...but Belgium is far from being saved... Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Interesting reflections on AlphaGoHere are: 1. The reflections of a dozen of Korean professionals on AlphaGo https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10210499878164941&id=1584704... 2. A video published by Hwang In Seong analysing Alphago's innovations (= heterodox moves): Enjoy ! :-)
6th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Denmark 0-4On 10th January, Belgian team (François -, Jan -, Nelis -, Gabriel -) has been crushed by the Danish one (0-4, all resignations !). Complete results of the round: Present standings:
"Now, I am the Master": the invincible bot was indeed a new version of "AlphaGo"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo#Unofficial_online_matches_in_late_... Ke Jie, supposedly the best player in the world, wrote: In a more positive way (?), great old champion Nieh Wei Ping: “Go is not as simple as we thought, there’s still huge room for we humans to explore. (...) Master is sent by the ‘Go God’ to guide humans.” Some articles (among dozens ! :-) http://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-program-vanquishes-human-players-of-go-in... https://qz.com/877721/the-ai-master-bested-the-worlds-top-go-players-and... In French: http://fr.euronews.com/2017/01/05/alphago-ou-la-machine-qui-fait-encore-... PS: personally, I am now curious to see how many handicap stones will need an human to beat "Master"
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