Belgian Go Federation

After the first weekend of the final only Lucas Neirynck is undefeated. Jan Ramon scored 4/5 and 3 players are following with 3/5.
Second part of the final in the weekend of 17-18 March in Café De Amedee in Leuven.

1 Annachachibi Kevin 1k BE 10- 2- 3- 4- 5- 0
2 Annachachibi Christopher 2d BE 9+ 1+ 10+ 3- 4- 3
3 Neirynck Lucas 4d BE 8+ 9+ 1+ 2+ 10+ 5
4 Wettach Alain 2d BE 7- 8- 9- 1+ 2+ 2
5 Missiaen Kwinten 2d BE 6+ 7- 8- 9- 1+ 2
6 Wang Yue 1d BE 5- 10- 7+ 8- 9- 1
7 Vandenbon Bram 1d BE 4+ 5+ 6- 10- 8- 2
8 Ramon Jan 4d BE 3- 4+ 5+ 6+ 7+ 4
9 Gonze Francois 4d BE 2- 3- 4+ 5+ 6+ 3
10 Prist Kevin 1d BE 1+ 6+ 2- 7+ 3- 3

The 22nd Leuven Tournament was won by Jan Ramon (4D/Leuven) with a perfect score of 5/5. Second place was for Huang Yong-Sen (3D) with 3/5, before Fatih Sulak (2D) and Dan Groza (1k) with both 3/5. Philipp Kocks (17k) won all his games and Pablo Gonzalez-Alvarez (17k) scored 4/5.

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Great, we played this one very well. Congratulations!
Find the games on the website.

Belgium	Austria	Score
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d	Viktor Lin (Sandmann) 5 dan	0-1
Jan Ramon (janr) 4d	Wolfgang Krames (Koffein) 3 dan	1-0
Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d	Schayan Hamrah (schayan355) 2 dan	1-0
Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1d	Bojan Cvjetkovic (Geas) 1 dan	1-0

Up to twenty players took part to the Belgian Championship last week. It's always an interesting tournament, with ghost players emerging from the shadows, and surprises in the results even in games played with a large gap of level.

Results are online, congratulations to all! Finals will take place on 3rd, 4th, 17th and 18th March 2012, and we'll try to find a quiet place to guarantee seriouse games.

Tournament information page

Dear Belgian Go-players,

The 2011 interclub season has come to an end with an exciting final round.
After the first half of the season Leuven had a strong lead, but in the second half Gent gained the lead. In the decisive final round, Gent won against Leuven with 3-0.

Antwerpen picked up the pace in the second half, but could not help getting third place with 4 point. Leuven got 6 points, and Gent has 8, and takes the interclub cup from Leuven.

Congratulations to all three teams !

This was the first time double rounds were played, due to the "record" number of teams participating. As organiser, my impression is that with three or four teams participating, playing double rounds is feasible if the captains are motivated. A little bit of prompting from the organiser seems to be enough to get all rounds to be played within a good time frame.

I would like to thank Philip Vlummens, Kris Boyen and Marcel Van Herck for speedy and correct transmission of results.

I hope to see a lot of teams in the 2012 interclub tournament !

Cheers,
Robby Goetschalckx,
Interclubs Organiser

This round against Finland was a big challenge, since their team had been undefeated till now. However, we managed to achieve an impressive win on board 4, congratulations!
Find the games on the website.

Finland	Belgium	Score
Jesse Savo (Werfeus) 4d	Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d	1-0
Mikko Siukola (Kettu) 4d	Jan Ramon (janr) 4d	1-0
Antti Hopappa (goantti) 3d	Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d	1-0
Oiva Moisio (AncientRib) 2d	Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1d	0-1

The 26th Brussels Tournament took place on Oct. 29th and 30th in Palais du Midi, Brussels.

The Belgian Go Federation organized it and 77 participants took part. There were players from all around Europe, and even further: Belgium of course, but also Hungary, Germany, France, Great-Britain, Turkey, Finland, Slovakia, Poland, but also Brazil, China and Korea!

It was an Ecup tournament level 4, in five rounds MacMahon.

The last round was very exciting because six top players (Csaba Mero, Chen Lei, Vincent van Gelderen, François Gonze, Simon Billouet and Kang Kyoungnang) had already three wins and one loss; note the achievement of François, Belgian 4d, who managed to beat two 6d.

Finally, after a very long and breath-taking game between Kang and Csaba, that was observed passionately by dozens of players in live but also about 150 players on KGS, Csaba managed a win by 3,5 and took the first place.

It was a great tournament and we hope to have even more players next year. Congratulations to all!

Links:

Full Results

Lucas Neirynck represented Belgium at the 6th KPMC in Korea. He did a great result: he won against Uffe HOLMSGAARD RASMUSSEN (Denmark), Rory WALES (Ireland) and Ron Lavi (Israel), and lost against Satoshi HIRAOKA (Japan), Gabriel Benmergui (Argentina) and King Yau Anson NG (Hong Kong). He is the 24th player out of 70, which is a nice achievement regarding the rude competition.
Complete results here: http://www.eurogofed.org/results/world/kpmc2011.htm

Only four participants took part to this year Youth and Student Championship. It was argued that the age limit should have been at 29 instead of 20, because there is a European Student Championship where students can take part until 29. Next year we will take it into account.

Given the small number of participants, we decided to make it a round-robin championship (meaning everyone plays against each other once).

Player	1	2	3	4
Kevin Prist 1d	***	0	0	1
Ly Duc Khang 1k	1	***	1	1
Kevin Annachachibi 1k	1	0	***	1
Adrian Dzienisiuk 6k	0	0	0	***

It comes out that Ly Duc Khang is our Student Champion and Adrian Dzienisiuk is our Youth Champion.

It was our first round for this new season, and we fought proudly, though the opponent was much stronger on paper. Congratulation to the team! Find the games on the website.

Belgium	United Kingdom	Score
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d	Bei Ge (folders) 5d	1-0
Jan Ramon (janr) 4d	Des Cann (Shuko) 3d	1-0
Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d	Alex Selby (icecream) 3d	1-0
Kwinten (Kwik) 1d	Andrew Simons (Uberdude) 3d	0-1