Belgian Go Federation

The 14th Louvain-La-Neuve tournament will take place on 1st and 2nd November. More info :
- In French
- In Dutch
- In English

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
 
 
 

Winner of the 2008 open european go championship is (expectfully) one
of the 7-d Coreans.

Winner of this edition is Park Jong Wook, only player with 9 victories.
2nd is another 7-d Corean, and 3rd the Taiwanese competitor, Lai Yu-
Cheng (who ended 2nd in the 2004 WAGC and 5th in the 2007 WAGC).

The best European player is Catalin Taranu (5-p) from Romania, who
ended as 6th with 7 victories, just one litlle SOS-point ahead of
Alexander Dinerstein (3-p), and 4 SOS-points ahead of the other Russian
favourite and winner last year, Ilya Chikchine.

Our Corean guest, Kim Jung Hyeop, made pretty good with 8 victories
(among wich one against Dinerstein)!

The results of the participating Belgian were rather good.
In particular, Thomas Connor did very well as 2-d with 7 victories, and
is now promoted to 3-d level. Congratulations to him !

All the results here

The photographs of the Korean Prime Minister's Cup Selection Tournament and Ghent Go Tournament are now available in the galleries.

There are also photographs of the lesson given by Kang Seung Hee.

BelgoNet 18 is now available in the member section.

Enjoy!

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

On Friday July 4th the Korean professional player Kang Seung Hee 2p gave a lecture in Brussels from 8pm to 10pm. There were 18 participants

Place

Outpost : Rue de la Tribune 8, 1000 Brussels

The 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.

Full result

The second round of the interclub tournament has finished, with again almost every goban played (only one forfait).

The Brussels teams are still at the top with 5 points for both. Closely at their heels are Antwerpen and Leuven, at an ex aequo of 4 points and 9 weighted points. After that there's Gent and Namur, both with 3 points. Since all scores are close, we'll be sure to have an exciting interclub season this year !