Belgian Go Federation

The Belgian representative Alain Wettach has finished on the 37th place in the 29th World Amateur Championship in Japan. He scored 4 victories and lost 4 games. The Korean Ha Sung Bong won the championship with a perfect 8/8 score. Second place was for the Chinese Guo Yuzheng and thirth Fernando Aguilar, both with 7/8. Best European was Cornel Burzo (Rumania) on rank 7.

Full result

Young rising star Simon Fain, 1-d, became Belgian champion of quick games 2008, just ahead of another promising young shodan, Lucas Neyrinck.

There were 18 competitors.

Complete results.

The 18th Leuven tournament was won by Say Boon Ng before Nelis Vets and Jan Ramon. Read more

The results of the Brussels Tournament are now available here.

Photos of the tournament are here.

The first six players were :

The 2nd Korea Prime Minister Cup was held in Suwon city from 12 to 17 October.
Jan Ramon won 5 games from 8 and finished with a great 14th place !

All results

Jan Bogaerts 4d went to Japan to represent Belgium during the 28th World Amateur Go Championship. Each year ~70 countries are invited to this tournament by the Nihon ki-in,.

Jan scored 3 points out of 8.
Complete results