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ResultsInterclubs Tournament 2008 complete resultsThe 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 :
Belgian championship preliminaries 2009Full results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship are now available here.
Korean Prime Minister CupFrançois 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
14th Louvain-La-Neuve TournamentLucas Neirynk won the 14th Louvain-La-Neuve Tournament with 4 victories. Full results are available here
World Mind Sport Games (Olympic Games for Mind Sports)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.
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
Find the (their) results here: http://123.124.180.125/en-us/Sport_Info.aspx?xm=GO&dt=0 Kristof holds a blog: http://wmsg-belgium.blogspot.com/
Youth and Student Belgian Championship 2008
Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and Ghent Go Tournament
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)
29th World Amateur ChampionshipThe 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.
Belgian Blitz Championship 2008Young 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.
18th Leuven tournamentThe 18th Leuven tournament was won by Say Boon Ng before Nelis Vets and Jan Ramon. Read more
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