Belgian Go Federation

Alexandre Dinerchtein (Ru/3p) is the new European Champion. Although losing his game against last year champion Catalin Taranu (Ro/5p), he finished 2 SOS-points ahead of Taranu. The competition was, as expected, dominated by the Koreans who occupied the first 5 places. Open European Champion is Kim Eunkuk. Good results for the Belgian players too, especially for Kwinten Missiaen (3k) with 8 points out of 10 games. Only 3 players scored better. The final results can be found here

The first round of interclub season 2009 has been succesfully completed with no forfeits.

In Leuven, the club of Gent was only able to win 1 out of 3 games, all games without any handicap stones, while Antwerp defeated Ath with 3-0, with 9 stones handicap on every board.

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the schedule for the interclub tournament of 2009 has been put online here. Rounds will take place in April, May, September, October and November.

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The go club "Le Chaff" is now the "Phénix Go Club" and moved to a new place.

Phénix Go Club

Place :	Outpost game center Rue de la tribune,8 1000 Bruxelles
Playing times&nbsp:	Wednesday 19h-24h
Email :	club_phenix@gofed.be

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.

 
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 ...