Belgian Go Federation

Matthew MacFadyen (Macfadyen) 6d - Jan Ramon (janr) 4d

Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d – Jon Diamond (mumps) 4d

Des Cann (Shuko) 5d - Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1d

Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1k – Andrew Simons (Uberdude) 3d

Belgium lost 1-3 to United Kingdom, who was average +/- 3 stones/levels stronger.
Dominik Versyk (1-k) managed to beat his 3-d opponent ! Congratulations to him !

Complete results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/news

Israel – Belgium 3-1

Board 1:	Ali Jabarin (AliJ93) – Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu)	B+Resign
Board 2:	Ron Lavi (Ronl1) – Benjamin Gigot (Pinchilei)	W+Time
Board 3:	Reem Ben David (Reem) – Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik)	B+6.5
Board 4:	Tal Michaeli (iHoldKiesi) – Dominique Versyck (dversyck)	B+Resign

The Preliminaries of the 2011 Belgian Championship were held this week-end in Brussels. We can notice the outstanding results of Kevin Prist who won the first place. Congratulations to all the 20 players!

Five best players:
1. Prist Kévin
2. Vets Nelis
3. Annachachibi Christopher
4. Versyck Dominique
5. Neirynck Lucas

Full results.

They will play the final tour (5th, 6th, 19th and 20th March 2011) against the five first finalists of 2010: Jan Ramon, François Gonze, Alain Wettach, Thomas Connor and Kwinten Missiaen.

Lee Sang Hun 7d from Korea won the KPMC with by winning all his games (7 wins)! He is follow by Yoshiyuki Tsuchimune 7d from Japan with 6 wins and Hu Yuqing 8d from China with 6 wins.

Nelis Vets is 49th with 3 wins.

Full results.
Official KPMC web site.
Pictures.

SeokBin CHO (K, 7-d) won undefeated the Brussels Tournament 2010. Runners-up are Csaba MERO (HU, 6d; 4/5) ) and Kyoungnang KANG (KOR, 7-d; 3/5)  Full results.

Kevin Prist won the tournament in the student category and Kevin Annachachibi in the youth category.

Full results are available here.

24 players (including 9 dan players) both from Belgium, Netherlands, France and England took part in the Tournament.

Lucas Neirynck won the tournament with 5 victories, followed by Andreas Drost with 4 victories and two players at the third place, Y.S. Huang and Pieter Beyens.

We can also mention the good result of Anousone Phaysomphot with 5 victories.

Full results are available here.

Matthias Terwey (D, 4-d) won surprinsingly the 2010 European Student championship, ahead of the great favorite Benjamin Teuber (D, 6-d).

Belgian representative Thomas Connor (3-d) made 2/5 and ended 7th.

Complete results here:  http://esgc2010.digoc.de/

 

http://www.egc2010.fi/results/egc-main-final-results.txt

Comment:  Artem Kachanovsky lost in the 10th and last round to "our" Kim JungHyeop by...half a point, while Ilya Shikchin, who was one victoryt behind Artem before this last round, won to Alexander Dinerstein.  This means that both ended with 8/10...but also that Ilya become European champion 2010, thanks to his better SOS (the breaking system).

So, Artem, who is still only 17 years old, missed the title for just half a point. Nevertheless, he was the big surprise of these championship.

Also with 8 points: 2 Korean 7-d, 2 Kim (Chealim and JungHyeop).

Further, with 7/10: Kang (the 3rd Korean 7-d) + 3 Romanians: Catalin Taranu, Cornel Burzo and Cristian Pop.

Alex Dinerstein, the great favourite, ended as best players with 6/10.

Also to be noticed: the good performance of 2 other teenagers: Thomas Debarre (FR) and Ali Jabarin (IL)

Among the Belgian (dan players):
"our" Thomas (Connor) made 4; and Kwinten, 5
Thomas Connor won the team tournament with Kim JungHyeop, Kim Chaelim, Kang Kyoungnang and Javier-Aleksi Savolainen.

The Belgian Blitz Championship was held in Leuven on Sunday 16th May 2010. Eleven players blitzed the whole afternoon and the first prize went to Ly Duc Khang, followed by Kwinten Missiaen.