Belgian Go Federation

This year the Belgian Blitz Championship gathered 16 people around the boards for a high-frequence series of games (7 games in 5 hours). Unexpectedly, brownies didn't show up: they were kept for the next Cosmic League round, of course.

However spring was calling us outside, the atmosphere was really good inside.
The 2009 Blitz Champion is Lucas Neirynck: he collected victories and only him could beat Christopher Annachachibi, who is thus second.

See you next year !

Full result.

You can find pictures here.

Here are the results of the first game of this first edition of the Cosmic Go League: (the first named had White)

1. Connor Thomas - Vanborm Hicham : 1-0
2. Gonze François - Annachachibi Christopher : 1-0
3. Neirynck Lucas - Fain Simon : 0-1
4. Missiaen Kwinten - Safran Aron : 1-0
5. Tolmatchef Frédéric - Annachachibi Kevin : 0-1
6. Malef Dimitris - Lucke André : 1-0
7. Prist Kevin - Ver Hoeye Martin : 1-0

bye: Duvernoy Jean-François (which is now sure of playing the next 5 games)

The games were played on 15th March at Outpost.

I hope we'll be at least 20 in two weeks (29th March), there might be chocolate brownies =)

Local player and co-organiser Jan Ramon (4D) has won the 19th edition of the Leuven Go Tournament. He was just a few SOSOS points ahead of François Gonze (Louvain-La-Neuve,2D) who defeated in the last round T.Mark Hall (UK,4D). Hall finished on rang 3. There was also a good result for Kwinten Missiaen (5/5), and Marie Jemine, Vincent Lochen, Kenny Debacq, Maarten Fabré and Laure Lambaerts (4/5).

Full results

The season 2008 of interclubs is over. The clubs of Antwerp, Le Chaff, Ghent, Leuven, Namur and Le pantin fought for the title, which was won by the Namur Go club. Congratulations!

53 interclub games were played. The interclubs proved to be still very popular; many players took part in three rounds or more. Some players deserve a special mention : Kenny Debacq, Kris Van Bael and Kris Boyen played in all rounds.

Thanks to all captains and club members for their commitment. Hope to see all of you for the season 2009!

Results :

Team	Points	Weighted Points
Namur	14	28
Antwerpen	11	26
Brussels-"Le Pantin"	10	26
Gent	9	26
Leuven	9	23
Brussels-"Le Chaff"	7	14

Full results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship are now available here.

François Gonze, the Belgian representative in the Korean Prime Minister Cup, played a good tournament and finished with 4 points out of 8 games. He earned himself the 31th place (68 players) and scored victories over a 4D and a 5D. The tournament was won by the Taiwanese representative Chien Li Chen (7/8), who is just 12 years old ! He had a better SOS-score than the Korean Lee Sang Hun and the Chinese player Zhao Wei, both also on 7/8. Best European was Ondrej Silt (CZ,6D). Complete results on http://kamyszyn.go.art.pl/kpmc2008

Lucas Neirynk won the 14th Louvain-La-Neuve Tournament with 4 victories.

Full results are available here

added 16/10/2008: Belgian team made 2 out of 7 (1 "bye" and a victory upon Portugal) 

added 14/10/2008: today, an interview of Renaud Braye, whose special opening attracted the attention of Ranka http://ranka.intergofed.org/ !

added 10/10/2008: find the last breakiing news here, plus many interviews from players of various countries (very interesting):  http://ranka.intergofed.org/

The World Mind Sport Games has started on 4th of October in Beijin (China). These event has been created to launch for the 1st time in history a sort of paralel Olympic Games for the intellectual games. Five games are represented: bridge, occidental chess, drought, xiangshi (chinese chess) and...yes of course...go ! More than 140 countries have sent delegation.
Here is a general presentation of this event: http://www.2008wmsg.org/en/

Belgian go is represented by a delegation of 5 players, 4 playing in the "men competition" : Thomas Connor, 3-d, Benjamin Gigot, 1-d, Renaud Braye, 1-k and Michael Meeschaert, 1-k
and Kristof Bossee, 1-k, playing the "individual open" as our "official number 1 representative".  The 5 will also play the team competition.

Find the (their) results here: http://123.124.180.125/en-us/Sport_Info.aspx?xm=GO&dt=0
(the 4 made all 2 out of 6 and Kristof 3/7, that means, no medal for this Olympiads ! 

Kristof holds a blog: http://wmsg-belgium.blogspot.com/

 
François Gonze won the student category and Simon Fain won the youth category.
 
 
Full result
 
 
 

François Gonze won the Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and will be the Belgian representative for the Korean Prime Minister Cup in November.

Thomas Connor and Nelis Vets finished respectively with the second and third place.

Willemkoen Pomstra, from Netherlands, won the Ghent Go Tournament, followed by Siu Hong Chung and Kristof Bossee.

Full result (GGT and KPMCST)
KPMCST result