Belgian Go Federation

Dear Go friends,

this week the fourth round of interclub was played (except for the games between Pantin and Leuven, as Pantin was not able to send a team to Leuven and lost by forfait).

This leads to exciting new results, as we have a new top:
Namur has taken the lead with 11 points, leaving the rest far behind. Leuven became second with 8 points (and 23 weighted points), before Antwerpen and Pantin who share third place with also 8 points but only 19 weighted points. Gent has 7 points, Le Chaff 6.

With one more round to play, nothing is certain yet ...

After the third round of interclub season 2008, we have the following exciting results:
Antwerpen and Pantin are leading with an ex aequo of 8 points (and 19 weighted points). They are followed by Namur (with seven points) and Le Chaff with 5 points. Leuven and Gent carry the proverbial red lantern together with 4 points (and 13 weighted points) each.
With two more rounds to play, any club can still win.

From this year on, the winning club of the season will be awarded a "wisselbeker / coupe de challenge" !

The 14th Louvain-La-Neuve tournament will take place on 1st and 2nd November. More info :
- In French
- In Dutch
- In English

added 16/10/2008: Belgian team made 2 out of 7 (1 "bye" and a victory upon Portugal) 

added 14/10/2008: today, an interview of Renaud Braye, whose special opening attracted the attention of Ranka http://ranka.intergofed.org/ !

added 10/10/2008: find the last breakiing news here, plus many interviews from players of various countries (very interesting):  http://ranka.intergofed.org/

The World Mind Sport Games has started on 4th of October in Beijin (China). These event has been created to launch for the 1st time in history a sort of paralel Olympic Games for the intellectual games. Five games are represented: bridge, occidental chess, drought, xiangshi (chinese chess) and...yes of course...go ! More than 140 countries have sent delegation.
Here is a general presentation of this event: http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/

Belgian go is represented by a delegation of 5 players, 4 playing in the "men competition" : Thomas Connor, 3-d, Benjamin Gigot, 1-d, Renaud Braye, 1-k and Michael Meeschaert, 1-k
and Kristof Bossee, 1-k, playing the "individual open" as our "official number 1 representative".  The 5 will also play the team competition.

Find the (their) results here: http://123.124.180.125/en-us/Sport_Info.aspx?xm=GO&dt=0
(the 4 made all 2 out of 6 and Kristof 3/7, that means, no medal for this Olympiads ! 

Kristof holds a blog: http://wmsg-belgium.blogspot.com/

 
François Gonze won the student category and Simon Fain won the youth category.
 
 
Full result
 
 
 

Winner of the 2008 open european go championship is (expectfully) one
of the 7-d Coreans.

Winner of this edition is Park Jong Wook, only player with 9 victories.
2nd is another 7-d Corean, and 3rd the Taiwanese competitor, Lai Yu-
Cheng (who ended 2nd in the 2004 WAGC and 5th in the 2007 WAGC).

The best European player is Catalin Taranu (5-p) from Romania, who
ended as 6th with 7 victories, just one litlle SOS-point ahead of
Alexander Dinerstein (3-p), and 4 SOS-points ahead of the other Russian
favourite and winner last year, Ilya Chikchine.

Our Corean guest, Kim Jung Hyeop, made pretty good with 8 victories
(among wich one against Dinerstein)!

The results of the participating Belgian were rather good.
In particular, Thomas Connor did very well as 2-d with 7 victories, and
is now promoted to 3-d level. Congratulations to him !

All the results here

The photographs of the Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and Ghent Go Tournament are now available in the galleries.

There are also photographs of the lesson given by Kang Seung Hee.

BelgoNet 18 is now available in the member section.

Enjoy!

François Gonze won the Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and will be the Belgian representative for the Korean Prime Minister Cup in November.

Thomas Connor and Nelis Vets finished respectively with the second and third place.

Willemkoen Pomstra, from Netherlands, won the Ghent Go Tournament, followed by Siu Hong Chung and Kristof Bossee.

Full result (GGT and KPMCST)
KPMCST result

On Friday July 4th the Korean professional player Kang Seung Hee 2p gave a lecture in Brussels from 8pm to 10pm. There were 18 participants

Place

Outpost : Rue de la Tribune 8, 1000 Brussels