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3rd round of the European team championship: Belgium - Turkey 2-2

On 28th of October, Belgian team (Jan +, Nelis -, Kwinten + , Gabriel -) made draw against Turkey in the 3rd round (a rather expected result).

Here are the results of the round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/287

And here the standings after this round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

Ukranian Bohdan Zhurakovskyi (5-d) won the 2015 Brussels Tournament

Ukranian Bohdan Zhurakovskyi (5-d) won the 2015 Brussels Tournament (which met a great success with its 71 participants).
Olivier Drouot (3-d) and Antoine Fenech (5-d) completed the podium.
Complete results here: http://www.gofed.be/tournament/results&tournament=BT&year=2015

2nd round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Norway 3-1

On 6/10, Belgian team (same players as previous moth) won against Norway.

Here are the results of the round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/286

And here the standings after this round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

8th Gent Go Tournament Results

This weekend the 8th Gent Go Tournament took place.

The tournament was won by Thomas Connor (3D), Oscar Vasquez (2D) took second place and our noble president Joost Vannieuwenhuyse (2k) was third.

The tournament had a total of 20 worthy participants, up from last year.

Full Results

1st round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Denmark 2-2

A new season (the 6th edition) of the European Team Championship has just started. On 15th September, Belgian team (Nelis -, Kwinten - , Christopher +, Gabriel +) made draw against Denmark in the 1st round (a rather expected result).

Here are the results of the round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/285

And here the standings after this round:
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

8th Antwerp Go Tournament Results

The 8th Antwerp Tournament was won by Dick Riedeman (3d) who won all his games, the runner up was Jefferson Huang (4d) with 4 wins.

All results can be found here

Looking for participants in the Pandanet Team Championship

Hello dear all!

Next season of Pandanet Team European Championship should start next September (I'm still waiting for complete information). I decided to apply as next Belgian Team Captain if everyone agrees. Other Captain Candidates are welcome

Furthermore I would like to know who is ready to take part in the coming glorious fights against players from all over Europe ! Belgium is anchored in B league: we have to fight this year to make better results. Despite it is "only" B-league, there are pro players (Pavol Lisy and Ali Jabarin both 1p). It is a golden opportunity for us to play against such strong players and watch their games against our best elements!

By the way, it does not take a lot of time: around one game (2h30) per month, usually on tuesday evening.

In order to prepare next season I would like to know who is ready to take part in the event (we need 12 players). Please fill the next doodle (only for Belgian Players): fill your complete name and precise whether you want to play this year. If you are unavailable please let us know.

http://doodle.com/vxsru2vigd8eh5vw

Waiting for all of you!
Best regards,
Gabriel Mercier.

Fan Hui (Fr, 2-p), European Champion 2015; Wang Zhemin (CHI, 3p) open European champion

In the European Championship / European Go Congress organised this year in Liberec in Czechia, Frenchman (ex-Chinese) Fan Hui became European Champion - for the 3rd time in a row !

He won the final against Ali JABARIN (Israël, 1-p)

Ilya Shikchine (RUS, 1-p) beat Thomas Debarre (Fr, 6-d) in the "little" final for the 3rd place.

Here are the complete results of the European Championship (only for players with an European passport):

--> results of the top 8 players (quarterfinals, semifinals and finals)
http://egc2015.cz/results/main/playoffs

--> results of the top 24 players
http://egc2015.cz/sites/default/files/Results_European_Championship.pdf

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Wang Zhemin (China, 3-p) won the open main tournament undefeated, ahead Kim Young-Sam (KOR, 8-d) (who lost only to him). Further, the 4 European-made professionals (Pavol Lisy, ALi Jabarin, Ilya Shikchine and Mateusz Surma) joined by Ukranian Artem Kachanovskij (7-d).

Complete results of the main tournament:
http://egc2015.cz/results/mainwall

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Kim Young-sam won the week-end tournament (in which Wang did not play) with a perfect score, ahead of four players with 4/5: Dinerstein (RUS, 3-p), Lisy (SK, 1-p), Chan (TW, 7-d) and Ma (CHI, 7-d).

Complete results of the WE tournament:
http://egc2015.cz/results/wallweek

PS: 8 Belgian participants played in the European Congress / tournament: Joost Van Vannieuwenhuyse, Kris Boyen, Roel Van Nyen, PHilippe Tranchida, Jonh Cassidy, Voja Stojanovic, Bart Cars and Catherine Fricheteau.
All of them scored about 50 %, what seems to proove Belgian rating is well-balanced compared to the other European countries ! :-).

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Last but not least: France (5 pts) won the Pandanet European Team Championship 2014-2015, ahead of Ukraine (5 pts) , Czechia (2 pts) and Romania (0 pts)
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/teams/7/FRA

Register now for the go stage

The registrations for the yearly go weekend have openend. For more info follow the links

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Changhun Kim (Korea) world amateur champion 2015; Thomas Connor 34th (out of 56)

Changhun Kim (KOR) won the 36th World Amateur Go Championship (held in Thailand), ahead of Aohua Hu (CH) (losing only to the Korean) and young Jyun-Fu Lai (Taiwan).
Satoshi Hiraoka (Japan) ended 5th just ahead of the best Western players, Cornel Burzo (RO) and Artem Kachanovskyi (UA).

Our representative, Thomas Connor, ended 34th with 2 victories (with all "expected" results).

Complete results here: http://www.pandanet.co.jp/event/worldama2015/live_e.htm

(note that for the 1st time in its history the WAGC employed the MacMahon system)