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ResultsChinese Taipeh representative is 2014 amateur world championYitien Chan (Chinese Taipei) snatched victory in the 35th World Amateur Championship with a 7/8 score. In a tie-break lottery, he scores 46 pts SOS, followed by 45 pts SOS for Korea and 43 points for China. The followers are Hong Kong (4th), Ukraine (5th), Czech Republic (6th), Russia (7th), Sweden (8th), Japan (9th) (only !) and USA (10th). The Belgian representative, Dominique Versyk, ended 31th among 54 participants, with a 4/8 score (...and expected results). Complete results here: http://ranka.intergofed.org/?page_id=10900
Go Seigen (Wu Qingyuan) turned 100 years old !On 12/06/14, Go Seigen, considered by many as the best player ever in the history of go, turned 100 years !
Ali JABARIN became the second "home-made" European pro player15 days after Pavol LISY (see our "older news"), Ali JABARIN, 19 years old, from ...Israël (!) became on 20/06 the second European professional go player by winning the loser's section of the 2014 pro qualification tournament... Here are the results:
Thomas Connor (3-d) Belgian blitz champion 2014Thomas CONNOR is 2014 Belgian blitz champion. He ended with 5 wins out of 6 rounds, just one 1-"sos point" ahead of unlucky Dominique VERSYCK, winner of the 3 previous editions, who was the only other competitors with 5 wins. Complete results will follow soon.
Pavol LISY : the 1st home-made European professional !Young Pavol LISY (18 years !, SK, ex 7-d) became last WE the 1st European player to be promoted professionnal go player within the European Go Federation. 20th of June, he will be joined by another European top amateur to be selected among half-finalists of the "1-defeat competition": Cornel Burzo vs. Lukas Podpera and Mateusz Surma vs. Ali Jabarin. Here are the results: (I remember that, 2-3 years ago, Pavol took only 18 months to raise from 1-k to 5-d !)
9th (and last round) of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Denmark 0-4Despite this heavy lost against Denmark (with 2 narrow defeats), Belgium ended 7th of 10 teams and will stay in the B-league next year. For your information: in the A-league, the 4 best teams: Tchequia, Russia, Ukraine and France will play aginst each other for the title during the European Go Congress in Sibiu (Roumania) this summer. Complete results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps
8th round of European Team Championship : Belgium - Norway : 4 - 0Belgium knocked Norway down 4-0 on the 8th round of European Team Championship held on IGS. We are currently ranked #6 out of 10 in League B and it looks extremely unlikely for Belgium to go down one league at the end of this year's championship. Complete results are available at
7th round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Slovenia 1-3Belgium lost against Slovenia, and will have to fight until the very end to avoid relegation into C league. Complete results here: Standings after 7 out of the 9 rounds:
6th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Netherlands 0-4No miracle: Belgium has been (rather logically according to the rankings) crushed by Netherlands 0-4... Complete results here: Standings after 6 out of the 9 rounds:
5th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Germany 1-3Belgium lost, once again with 1-3, this time against Germany. François succeeded in winning his game, but it was not enough... Complete results of the round here: Present standings:
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