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Results2020 European Championship (on-line)Nearly all the best European players participated in the 2020 European Championship (among the pros, only Pavol Lisy was missing). This edition is of course organized on-line to due the Covid-Crisis, in a knock-out formula, with sided players. We already told you that Lucas Neirynck won twice (once against Dinerstein), but he has been finally beaten by Andrei Kravets in the 1/8 of finals. The quarters of finals were (winners in 1st place): Ilya Shikchine - Andreii Kravets Semi-finals: Final: Complete results: https://www.eurogofed.org/egc/2020.html
Feat by Lucas Neirynck: he defeated Alexander Dinerstein, a pro player, in the 2nd round of the European Championship !In the 2nd round of the European Championship, Lucas Neirynck realized the most impressive feat in his life: he managed to defeat a professional player, Alexander Dinerstein. Alexander Dinerstein became pro in 2002 in the Korean Baduk Association. He has been 7 times European champion (between 1999 and 2009), and is still one of the strongest European players (8th in the last European Rating). It was a very tight game from the beginning to the end, that Lucas finally won by...1,5 point ! To download the game: see "sgf file" in red here: https://www.eurogofed.org/egc/2020.html In the next round, Lucas will play another pro: Andreii Kravets. PS: I advice you to look at the spectacular game Lucas won in the 1st round against Sinan Djepov, wherein he managed to survive in the moyo of his opponent before delivering a nice tesuji as "coup de grace".
Lucas Neirynck 10th time Belgian Champion !After 9 comes 10: Lucas Neirynck remains undefeated Belgian Champion for the 10th time in 11 participations with a global score in these 11 finals of 85+/6- (37 consecutive wins since 2016). For the 2nd time, the final of the Belgian Championship was organized as a knock-out tournament with "2 lives" (see: Tournament rules in Dutch and French) Unfortunately, 2 qualified competitors did not participate (sickness): There was a little surprise during the 1st day of the competition with the elimination of Huang.
Ilya Shikchine won the 5th European Pro ChampionshipEight European pro players participated in the 5th European Pro Championship
2020 European Go Championship has started (on-line); Lucas Neirynck won in 1st round32 top European players, amateur and pro - selection made according to the European ranking, participate in this event played "on-line" (among the top 10 European rated players, only Pavol Lisy and Cristian Pop do not play). Lucas Neirynck has won in 1st round against Sinan Djepov (BG, 5d), and will now play Alexander Dinerstein (RU, 3p) in the 2nd round on 5th October 9:30 AM. Results to be followed here: https://www.eurogofed.org/egc/2020.html
China won KPMC; Lucas Neirynck, our representative, reached the final tour, but lost in 1st round to JapanLucas Neirynck is our representative in the 2020 KPMC (Korean Prime Minister Cup), which is the "Korean version" of the World Amateur Go Championship. There are 61 participants. All games are played on-line. Through the first part of the tournament, Lucas qualified from a group of 4 European countries by finishing 2nd (defeat to Hungary, but wins against Cyprus and Turkey). He lost in the 1st round of the final rounds of the tournament, a knock-out tournament with the 32 qualified competitors. Quarters of final are: Korea-Canada, South Africa-Japan, China-USA, Taïwan-Hong Kong Complete results: http://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/eng/tournament/final.asp
Artem Kachanovskyi wins the 1st European Professional Online League6 out of the 7 "European made" pro participated in the 1st edition of this on-line league (Mateusz Surma did not participate). Artem won the final against Pavol Lisy (3-0), who had defeated Ilya Shikchine in the challenger designating match. Complete results: https://www.eurogofed.org/pros/league.html
9th (and last) round of the European Team Championship: Belgium makes draw against UK and ends 5th in B-leagueOn 19/05/2020, Belgium team, composed by Lucas Neirynck (+), Jan Ramon (+) Lucman Bounoider (-) Gabriel Mercier (-) makes draw against United Kingdom in the 9th round of the ETPC. Results: https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/599 Belgium ends in the middle of B-league (5th out of 10 teams). Definitive Standings: https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps (extreme right on the screen). In A-league, Russia, France, Czechia and Ukraine will play each other in a final tour this Summer to find out who will succeed France, winner of last year.
Kim Young-Sam wins unbeaten the Corona CupThe Corona Cup is an on-line tournament organised by Lukas Podpera. Ex-yoengusaeng (ex-insei) Kim Young Sam appeared - once more - to be too strong for the European competitors: he wins unbeaten the Corona Cup. Behind Kim, Pavol LISY (SK, 2p) ended second with 5 wins. Four players follows with 4 wins: Benjamin DREAN-GUENAIZIA (FR, 6d), Ilya SHIKSHIN (RU, 3p), Anton CHERNYKH (RU, 6d) and Sinan DJEPOV (BG, 5d). Ben makes a great performance, and so did Anton and Sinan, who are still teenagers ! Outside the "top group", Vassili JAKOVLEV-CHERNUSHEV (RU, 4d) managed to win 5 games. Inversely, strong players as Artem KACHANOVSKIJ (UK, 2p), Lukas PODPERA (CZ, 7d), Stanislaw FREJLAK (PL, 7d) only got a mild 3-3 score... Lucas NEIRYNCK (BE, 5d) scores 2 wins. Complete results here: https://goweb.cz/turnaj/corona-cup-2020/
1st China Junior Pros vs Europe Online Go Match: 19/04 and 20/04: China smashes Europe 18-2 :-(News from Artem Kachanovski: Results: https://www.eurogofed.org/china-europe/1st-junior/pairings-results.html Comments on the results: European players, even the professional ones, have still to grow: China won 18-2 ! (wins by Viktor Lin and by Ali Jabarin; many games were lost by resignation after only +/- 150 moves) :-(
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