Belgian Go Federation

In an exciting finish, Yoon Nam-gi (KR, 7d) won the Open European Championship. He ended up as the only player with 1 loss.

Behind him, 3 players ended with 2 losses, in the order of SOS tie-breaker:
- Kim Dae-hyuk (KR, 7d), who was the only who managed to beat Yoon
- Liao Xingwen, professional player (6p) from China, who was long the favourite but suffered two losses at the tailend of the tournament, against Yoon Nam-gi and against Kim Young-sam.
- Kim Young-sam (KR, 7d), the best ranked player in Europe.

Further, 6 players ended with 7 wins out of 10, ranked 6th to 10th.
The best among them are still other Asian competitors: Lou Yun Xiao (5th), Hong Sungwon (6th) and Cho Eunjin (7th).
Best Europeans were: Dominik Boviz (HU, 6d) (8th), ahead of Mateusz Surma (PL, 1p) (9th) and former European champion (1981, 1990, 1993) Rob Van Zeijst (NL, 7d) (10th).

There were in total 900 participants, among whom 9 Belgian ones.
All our compatriots ended with +/- average results (except Pierre Detivaux who scored 4/5 as a 3 kyu).

Complete results here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WMxarqLdjSBFkxIDAxGYPdAsGpkxkZge/view

NEXT YEAR THE EUROPEAN GO CONGRESS IS ORGANIZED IN BRUSSELS. BE THERE !!!