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ResultsPreliminaries Belgian Championship 2017: the favourites made their way to for the final roundsThe participating "big shots" (Bram Vandenbon, 2-dan; Nelis Vets, 2-dan and Kwinten Missiaen, 3-dan) made their way to the final rounds as expected. Outsiders Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2-k) and Steven Foulon (4-k) took their chance and also qualified theirselves. These 5 competitors will join the 5 already qualified players: Lucas Neirynck, François Gonze, Gabriel Mercier, Kevin Prist and Jan Ramon in the final rounds in Mars. Unlucky Joris Oren (1-k)ended as 6th and is thus 1st reserve. There were 10 competitors. PS: surprisingly, Thomas Connor (Belgian champion in 2015) did not participate... Complete results here: http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=T161126F
Human revenge over computer: Cho Chi Kun won his match against Zen (2-1).Cho Chi Kun managed to win his match against the computer "Zen" by 2-1. More info here: (not yet updated with the 3rd game, which is commented here: Meanwhile, I read "Zen" has climbed to nr 1 on KGS.
4th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Switzerland 2-2On 22th of November, Belgium (Gerald +, Lucas -, Nelis +, Gabriel -) obtained its 1st point by making a draw against Switzerland. Note the reinforcement by Gerald Westhoff (ex-European top Dutch player, now living in Ghent) and the defeat of Lucas by a tiny 2,5 pts... Detail of the round here: Present standings here: We are in the red zone (with a risk of demotion to the C league), but there are still many rounds to come...
3rd round European Team Championship: Belgium - Italy 1-3On 1st of November, Belgian team (Lucas -, Jan +, Kwinten -, Nelis -) lost...for the 3rd time consecutively :-(. Detail of the round here:
2nd round Europa Team Championship: Belgium - Austria 1-3On 11/10, Belgian team (Lucas lost against Viktor Lin, Kwinten -, Nelis - , Gabriel +) lost against Austria 1-3 :-) Complete results here: Present standings:
1st round European Team Championship 2016-17: Belgium - United Kingdom 1-3Despite reinforcement of the Belgian team by Gerald Westhoff (NL, 6d), an European star of the 90's now living in Belgium, our team lost to UK by 1-3. Played for Belgium: Gerald (lost), Lucas (won), Nelis (lost) and Gabriel (lost, by 1,5 pt). Complete results here: Present standings:
Best publicly available software is now 6-d strenghSince 3 years, a match (of 5 games) has been organized between the strongest commercially available software and a top European amateur player. Up till now the human (Franz-Josef Dickhut, D, 6d) had triumphed against the machine/s ("Crazy Stones" in 2014; "Zen" in 2015), both times by 3-1). But this year, "Zen" beats Lukas Krämer (D, 6d, German champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015) also by 3-1. This is a new milestone in Computer-go because "Zen" (unlike "Alpha Go") is a publicly available go programs running on regular hardware... More info here: https://go.codecentric.de/
Young (16) Chinese amateur star Rundong Yang wins 2016 KPMC (Korean Prime Minister Cup)Young Chinese Rundong Yang wins 2016 KPMC (Korean Prime Minister Cup) Four other players ended with one defeat: Yu-Cheng Lai (7d, TW), Kim Heesoo (7d, insei, KR), and the representatives of Canada and Thaïland (in this order). "Our guy" was this year Gabriel Mercier. Complete results here: http://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/eng/result/gameTable.asp
Natalia Kovaleva (RU, 5d) wins the 2016 Woman European Championship (organized in Antwerpen !)Natalia Kovaleva (RU, 5d) won the 2016 European Championship which was organized this year in Belgium (Antwerpen)! She remains the only undefeated participant. Read here the report by one of the participants: Full list of the final standings: 1. Natalia Kovaleva and on the EGD:
Kim Young-Sam (KR, 7-d) won also the main European Congress tournament in Saint-PetersburgNobody expected this just a few days ago, but Kim Youngsam 7d managed to win the EGC 2016 Main Tournament! At the end of the 7th round, Taïwanese Chan YiTien (world amateur champion in 2014 !) was the only unbeaten player...and thus favorite (Kim YS has already been defeated 2 times). But in the 8th round, Ilya Shickine did a great performance by beating Chan. And when Ilya went on to beat in the 9th round his last European rival Ali Jabarin (IL, 1-p), he joined Chan as co-favorite. In the 10th and last round, Chan lost to Kim YS so that Ilya had just to win against Zhang (CN, 7-d) to be the only one with 9 wins...But he lost, offering the final victory to Kim YS (after tie-break). Finally, it was a very narrow result, as four players ended with 8 points. Three players ended with 7 wins: Here are the complete results: Remarks: 1. Ilya Shikchin is 2016 European champion as he won the "European Championship" (a knock-out tournament for the 8 best European competitors after 4th round of the main tournament). 2. Fan Hui(FR, 2-p), European champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015, was well partly present in St P...but did not compete! 2. the other professional European players (Artem Kachanovski, Alexander Dinerstein and Catalin Taranu) did not play the entire main tournament...Among them, only Artem made his way to the European Championship; the 2 others did badly. **** And what about the Belgians ?
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