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ResultsLucas Neirynck wins the 2nd Pantin TournamentOn Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May, 30 players have gathered for the second edition of the Pantin Tournament! Lucas Neirynck, 5d managed to win all six rounds, earning the first place. Second came Brendan Guevel, 1d and third, with a slightly worse SOS, Olivier Drouot, 3d. Complete results can be found here.
Kachanovskij wins the 3rd Grand Slam (Berlin)Along with the "European Pro Championship" (in February) and the "European Championship" (during the EG Congress, in July), the most (qualitatively) important European tournament of the year is the "Grand Slam Tournament", organized in Berlin. The "Grand Slam" is a tournament making part of the European Grand Prix (EGP) which has existed now for a few years in Europe and which is sponsorised by CEGO (a Chinese firm). The EGP consists of a series of bonus point tournaments throughout the whole year in which the Grand Slam tournament counts for many points (I do not enter the details). We report here the results of the 2017 (and 3rd) edition: In the ¼ finals, there were still 2 amateurs left: Tanguy Le Calvé (FR, 6d) and Andreii Kravets (UA, 6d) while professional Catalin Taranu (RO, 5p) had already been eliminated by Alexander Dinerstein in the preliminary round. In ¼ final, In semi-finals, The winner of the 3rd edition of the Grand Slam is…finally Kachanovski, who triumphed over Dinerstein in final, while Lisy won the small final for the 3rd place to a probably demotivated Shikchin... Complete results: http://www.eurogofed.org/EuropeanGrandPrix/grandslam2017.html
10th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Poland 2-2Belgium team made a great result yesterday in the European Team Championship: she/he managed to make a draw against the leader, Poland! Gerald lost logically against the pro (!) Mateusz Surma and so did Lucas; but Jan and Nelis won their game. Despite this great result, Belgium remains in the relegation zone. The last round on 16th May, against Slovakia, a direct competitor - both team have 6 points, will be decisive! Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Oscar Vazquez (4d) wins in LiègeOscar Vazquez (4d), the young (14 years old) Spanish rising star, won the 2nd edition of the tournament of Liège. Detailed here: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/398
Park Junghwan (KR) is World championKorean Park Junghwan remains unbeaten in the 1st edition of the World Championship which took place last week in Osaka. 2nd is Mi Yuting from China (who only lost to Park). "Deep Zen Go", who/which represented the A.I. side, ended 3rd, thanks to its/her/his (:-) victory over... 4th - and last - Japanese Iwama Yuta, who did not gain a single victory Most of the games were very disputed. The results: http://www.worldgochampionship.net/english/ *** PS: meantime "Deep Zen Go" is not longer the 2nd strongest go program in the world (behind AlphaGo/Master): the (2nd) strongest program is now a chinese one, "Fine Art". "Fine Art" is improving so incredibly quickly that many expect him to catch up AlphaGo soon !
He did it once again: Lucas Neirynck is Belgian Champion !This WE, Lucas Neirynck (5d) conquered a new Belgian Champion title. He even remains unbeaten (9/9). Gabriel Mercier (2d...now probably 3d) did a great performance by finishing second (7/9), ahead of bronze medail Kwinten Missiaen (3d), 6/9. Also directly qualified for the 2018 finals are the 4th. François Gonze (4d) and the 5th. Nelis Vets (2d). Surprisingly enough, Jan Ramon (4d) (5/9) will have to play the preliminaries rounds next year. And so will have Bram Vandenbon (2d), Joost Van Nieuwenhuizen (2k) and the 2 younsters, Louis Baudaux and Victor Schneider (both 6k). Here are the detailled results: https://www.gofed.be/webfm_send/397 (and here is the palmares of the Belgian Championship since 1st edition: http://www.gofed.be/node/260)
9th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Netherlands 2-2On 21th of March, our team managed to make a draw against the "on paper" stronger team of Netherlands. Lucas won against Gilles Van Eeden (6d), one of the strongest European players in the 80'and 90's. And Gabriel triumphed over a 3d. Despite this performance, Belgium stays in the red zone. There is still 2 rounds left... Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Finals Belgian Championship 2017, standings after the 1st WE: Lucas and Kwinten still unbeatenAfter the 1st WE (5 rounds played out of the 9), Kwinten Missiaen (3d) and Lucas Neirynck (5d) remained unbeaten. In the "peloton" of players with 3 points: Bram Vandenbon (2d), Jan Ramon (4d), François Gonze (3d) and Gabriel Mercier (2d). Further, Nelis Vets (2d) has 2 points, Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2k), 1 point, and our "rising stars" Louis Baudaux (6k) and Victor Schneider (6k) - who replaced Kevin Prist (3d) and Joris Oren (1k) who were not free - are still waiting for a feat...
8th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Sweden 2-2On 28th of February, Belgian team (Lucas +, Kwinten -, Nelis -, Gabriel +) made draw against Sweden. Complete results of the round: Present standings:
How strong are the home-made European pros ?The go server Tygem has just organized a match between Kim Seung-Jun (also known as "Blackie"), a famous 9 dan professional player, against the 5 home-made European pros (Ilya Shikchine, Pavol Lisy, Artem Kachanovskij, Mateusz Surma and Ali Jabarin). All games were played without komi (Kim playing white, of course). The final score is 3-2 for Kim (Ilya and Mateusz won). Conclusion: according to this result, it seems that "our" pros have really a professional strength: the handicap between top professional players and young beginning professionals is currently estimated to be of 1 to 2 stone/s. More detail here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=99
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