News

Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and Ghent Go Tournament

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

Lecture by Kang Seung Hee 2p

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

29th World Amateur Championship

The Belgian representative Alain Wettach has finished on the 37th place in the 29th World Amateur Championship in Japan. He scored 4 victories and lost 4 games. The Korean Ha Sung Bong won the championship with a perfect 8/8 score. Second place was for the Chinese Guo Yuzheng and thirth Fernando Aguilar, both with 7/8. Best European was Cornel Burzo (Rumania) on rank 7.

Full result

result interclub ronde 2

The second round of the interclub tournament has finished, with again almost every goban played (only one forfait).

The Brussels teams are still at the top with 5 points for both. Closely at their heels are Antwerpen and Leuven, at an ex aequo of 4 points and 9 weighted points. After that there's Gent and Namur, both with 3 points. Since all scores are close, we'll be sure to have an exciting interclub season this year !

Belgian Rengo Championship 17/05/2008

The tournament was won by

  1. Leen Willaert and Jan Ramon
  2. Seung Hee Hong and Benjamin Gigot
  3. vincent Lochen and Anhony Mariotti

More information here

BelgoNet 17

BelgoNet 17 is now available in the member section.

Enjoy!

results interclub round 1

Antwerpen Pantin 1-3
Namur Gent 2-2
Le Chaff Leuven 3-1

A strong start for Brussels, but nothing has been decided yet !

Belgian Blitz Championship 2008

Young rising star Simon Fain, 1-d, became Belgian champion of quick games 2008, just ahead of another promising young shodan, Lucas Neyrinck.

There were 18 competitors.

Complete results.

Belgo 83

After an absence of (nearly) one year, Belgo strikes back !

You can now read the new issue of Belgo in the members section :-)
Enjoy it !

Reminder: to access to the member section, you need a login, given to
you by your club responsible when you become member.

NB: you may also receive it freely on paper format by sending a demand
to belgopapier@gofed.be before 15th of May.

Members section

BelgoNet 12 -> 15 are available in the BelgoNet section.

Belgian Championship finals 2008 : new games were added in the Games section