Belgian Go Federation

Lucas Neirynck 6d, 11-fold Belgian Champion will lead a tsumego competition on 13/06 at 19:00. The tsumego will increase in difficulty throughout the session.

The board will be shown on KGS, in the Belgian room.
For audio, we will use the Belgian Baduk Café Discord server.

In this event, Lucas Neirynck 6d, 11-fold Belgian Go Champion, will play a simultaneous game with 5 BGF members, followed by a commentary of the games.
This will take place on Thursday 02/06, at 20:30.

The spots are limited, so for registration we work on a first-come-first-serve basis. For the registration form, click here.
Note that participation as free, but you must be a BGF member.

The games will take place on KGS, in the Belgian Room.
The Audio will be through the Belgian Baduk Café Discord.

REGISTERED PLAYERS (5 max):
Sven Cuyt 1d
Gints Engelen 2k
Serge Eon 5k
Xavier Baele 8k
Bram Westhovens 8k

Lucas Neirynck, 6d, 11 times Belgian champion will be reviewing and commenting on games played by BGF members.

===> SEND YOUR GAMES to board@gofed.be
These can be tournament games, online games, correspondance games, etc. We do recommend to only send in games where you had enough time to think carefully about your moves (i.e. no blitz games). Make sure to clarify whether you played white or black.

For this lesson, the board will be shown in the Belgian Room on KGS.
For Audio, we will use the Belgian Baduk Café Discord server.

This lesson is free of charge but only for Belgian Go Federation members.

The annual General Assembly of the Belgian Go Federation will be held on line on 16/01 at 2 PM on Discord https://discord.gg/MjV6vYH9. You can also join us via the Belgian Baduk Cafe.
This assembly gathers all the club responsibles in Belgium and the board of the Belgium Go Federation.

Everyone who would like to get involved in the organization of Go activities in Belgium as well as those just curious about Go in Belgium are welcome ! (no need to register to come)

Please come with your enthusiasm and your projects to shape up the future of the Belgian go life !

Agenda :
1. report on the 2021 activities (by the president) and financial report 2021 (by the treasurer)
2. projects for 2022 (and later) and adoption of the 2022 budget
3. election of the Board of Administration

Lesson online by Lucas Neirynck 6d
Topic: Walls

Free of charge but only for BGF members.
Sunday 12/12 from 11 AM to 12 AM (11:00 to 12:00)
In English

Registration form: https://forms.gle/M8Rj5BbBdWUsmGm1A

Lesson online by Lucas Neirynck 6d
Topic: Direction of play

Free of charge but only for BGF members.
Friday 12/11 from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM (19:30 to 20:30)
In English

Registration form: https://forms.gle/M8Rj5BbBdWUsmGm1A

For this lesson, we will use the KGS Belgian room for the board, and the Discord "Belgian Baduk Café" for the audio (invite link: https://discord.gg/ufyEUsEpN9), so you will need a Discord account as well as a KGS account.

Lucas Neirynck (6d) is 10 times champion of Belgium & French Open champion 2020.

Topic: Invasion & Reduction / Guidelines of how to chose between the two and how to do

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To be allowed to participate, you have to be a Belgian Go Federation member.

Please fulfill this form: https://forms.gle/2C2pvziwPdhWK52JA
For the lessons, you will need a KGS account and Discord installed (preferably).

Lucas Neirynck (6d) is 10 times champion of Belgium & French Open champion 2020.

Topic: Modern joseki / fuseki / what has changed since Alphago

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To be allowed to participate, you have to be a Belgian Go Federation member.

Please fulfill this form: https://forms.gle/2C2pvziwPdhWK52JA
For the lessons, you will need a KGS account and Discord installed (preferably).

Kim Ouweleen is the co-author of a series of go books that will be published by Kiseido, called Weird and Wonderful. The first volume will appear in a few months.

After a first lesson, about some amazing and strange moves that were played by professionals, this session will be dedicated to game reviews. Participants can send their games in sgf format to "kim.ouweleen@gmail.com" and Kim will highlight and comment interesting situations from there.

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To be allowed to participate, you have to be a Belgian Go Federation member.

Please fulfill this form: https://forms.gle/2C2pvziwPdhWK52JA
For the lessons, you will need a KGS account and Discord installed (preferably).

Lucas Neirynck (6d) is 10 times champion of Belgium & French Open champion 2020.

Topic: Fundamental shapes of go / A way to see the game
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To be allowed to participate, you have to be a Belgian Go Federation member.

Please fulfill this form: https://forms.gle/2C2pvziwPdhWK52JA
For the lessons, you will need a KGS account and Discord installed (preferably).