Belgian Go Federation

Local player and co-organiser Jan Ramon (4D) has won the 19th edition of the Leuven Go Tournament. He was just a few SOSOS points ahead of François Gonze (Louvain-La-Neuve,2D) who defeated in the last round T.Mark Hall (UK,4D). Hall finished on rang 3. There was also a good result for Kwinten Missiaen (5/5), and Marie Jemine, Vincent Lochen, Kenny Debacq, Maarten Fabré and Laure Lambaerts (4/5).

Full results

The season 2008 of interclubs is over. The clubs of Antwerp, Le Chaff, Ghent, Leuven, Namur and Le pantin fought for the title, which was won by the Namur Go club. Congratulations!

53 interclub games were played. The interclubs proved to be still very popular; many players took part in three rounds or more. Some players deserve a special mention : Kenny Debacq, Kris Van Bael and Kris Boyen played in all rounds.

Thanks to all captains and club members for their commitment. Hope to see all of you for the season 2009!

Results :

 
The Belgian Go Federation will be represented at Made In Asia on 14th and 15th March 2009. During the whole weekend, initiations and demonstrations will be organized in order to make Go more popular.

Find more info on madeinasia.be.

Full results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship are now available here.

The results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship:

In the first round there were two surprising results, with Daniel French (6k) winning against Kristof Bossee (1d) and Kenny Debacq (7k) against Michael Meeschaert (1k).

After the first day there was only one player with no lost games, Lucas Neirynck, who finished the entire tournament without losing a single game.
The first three places were certain after 6 rounds, but the last round was still exciting to determine fourth and fifth place. Only when the final game finished (Kristof Bossee won by just half a point from Dr. Wong Chi Yiu), were the reduced SOS, SOS and SODOS clear enough to determine the people who placed themselves for the finals.

1. Lucas Neirynck
2. Wang Yue
3. Christopher Annachachibi
4. Michael Meeschaert
5. Daniel French
6. Kristof Bossee
7. Wong Chi Yiu
8. Dennis Vercammen
9. Hicham Vanborm
10. Kwinten Missiaen
11. Kenny Debacq
12. Peter Leyssens
13. Ismail Dogru
14. Joost Vannieuwenhuyse

Full results will be posted later.

François Gonze, the Belgian representative in the Korean Prime Minister Cup, played a good tournament and finished with 4 points out of 8 games. He earned himself the 31th place (68 players) and scored victories over a 4D and a 5D. The tournament was won by the Taiwanese representative Chien Li Chen (7/8), who is just 12 years old ! He had a better SOS-score than the Korean Lee Sang Hun and the Chinese player Zhao Wei, both also on 7/8. Best European was Ondrej Silt (CZ,6D). Complete results on http://kamyszyn.go.art.pl/kpmc2008

Lucas Neirynk won the 14th Louvain-La-Neuve Tournament with 4 victories.

Full results are available here

 
The winner of the 23rd Brussels Tournament is Jin Zou (6d) with 5 victories! The second is Ondrej Silt (6d) and the third is Yue Li (6d).

All the results are available here.

You can find the pictures of the tournament here.

Thanks a lot to our sponsors (Pandanet, EGF and Marchand) and to all the players that made this tournament a great success.
 

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" !