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Results2013 European Go Championship: Fan Hui is European ChampionEx-chinese professional Fan Hui (who has recently got the French nationality) became last week the new European champion. He defeated in final young (18) Pavol LISY from Slovakia (who was the winner in the last Brussels tournament). In the little final for the 3rd place, opposing 2 other young talents, Mateusz SURMA (PL) beat Thomas DEBARRE (FR). Results of the finals: Note the elimination of two great favourites Ilya SHIKCHIN and Artem KACHANOVSKI in the 1st round (= quarter finals) of the finals (respectively by LISY and DEBARRE), and the bad result of multiple European champion Alexander DINERSTEIN, who even failed to qualify for the finals ! Complete results of the main tournament: Still, Ilya SHIKCHIN did win the WE tournament, beating among others, Fan HUI ! Results of the WE tournament:
9th (and last) round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Austria 0-4As expected, Belgium was severly beaten by Austria, one of the 3 strong teams of the B-division. Finland (1st, next year thus in A-league), Austria (2nd, will play a match against Israël to possibly climb into A-league) and Netherlands (who ended 3rd at tie-break and will thus stay in B-league) dominated by far the other teams. Thus this match did not matter for the final standing: Belgium ended 4th (out of 10 teams). Here are the detailled results of the 9th round: Here are the final standings of this 3rd edition if the European Team Championship: PS: the 4 best teams of the A-division (Russia, Ukraine, Czechia and Hungary) will play against each other during the next European Congress in Poland this summer to designate the champion team...
7th and 8th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Italy 2-2 and Belgium - UK 2-2Belgian team made 2 draws in Mars and April against Italy and UK. It is now certain that we wil stay in B-class next year (not be promoted neither be demoted). Here are the results of the 7th round: And here those of the 8th round: Finally, here are the standings after 8 out of the 9 rounds: (you see also the domination of the Eastern countries in A-class !).
Belgian Championship second weekendIn the second weekend of the Belgian Championship, Kevin Prist lost against Jan Ramon and Lucas Neirynck lost against Kwinten Missiaen. As Jan had already lost to Lucas in the first weekend, before the last round three players had 7 points.
First week-end of the Belgian Go ChampionshipThe first week-end of the Belgian Go Championship ended today. Two players have 5 wins: Lucas Neirynck and Kevin Prist. See http://www.gofed.be/tournament/results&tournament=BC&year=2013 . Some games have been broadcasted on KGS with the account BelChamp13.
6th round of the European Team Championship: Finland - Belgium 4-0As feared, Belgium was crushed by the very strong team of Finand (who is leading the B-division). Results of the 6th round: http://www.pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/92 Standings: http://www.pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps
5th round of the "European Team Go Championship": Belgium -Poland 2-2Belgium made draw against Poland in the 5th round of the European team go ch'ip, which was played in January. Complete results, for each player here: http://www.pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/91 After 5 of the 9 rounds, Belgium is now 4th (out of the 10 teams of the B-league)
5th Ghent Tournament: resultsHere are, with some delay (but beter late than never), the results of the 5th Ghent tournament which took place in April 2012. Winner was Dominik Versyk (1D), ahead of Jean Rey (1D, Lille) and Bram Vandenbon (1D).
4th round of the "European Team Go Championship" : Netherlands - Belgium 3-1Belgium was beaten for the 1st time in this competition. Please find here the complete results of the 4th round in B-league:
3rd round of the "European Team Go Championship" : Belgium - Norway 4-0 !Based on ranking Belgium outclassed Norway. The Belgian team lived the to the expectations and pulled off their 3th consecutive victory, this time against Norway. This places Belgium on top after three rounds (with an impressive 11-1 record !) ! Dreaming of promotion seems premature as several strong countries remain. Next round against the Netherlands will likely provide a serious test. Games and results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/89
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