Belgian Go Federation

Here are the results of the first game of this first edition of the Cosmic Go League: (the first named had White)

1. Connor Thomas - Vanborm Hicham : 1-0
2. Gonze François - Annachachibi Christopher : 1-0
3. Neirynck Lucas - Fain Simon : 0-1
4. Missiaen Kwinten - Safran Aron : 1-0
5. Tolmatchef Frédéric - Annachachibi Kevin : 0-1
6. Malef Dimitris - Lucke André : 1-0
7. Prist Kevin - Ver Hoeye Martin : 1-0

bye: Duvernoy Jean-François (which is now sure of playing the next 5 games)

The games were played on 15th March at Outpost.

I hope we'll be at least 20 in two weeks (29th March), there might be chocolate brownies =)

the schedule for the interclub tournament of 2009 has been put online here. Rounds will take place in April, May, September, October and November.

What about playing frequent, serious and ranked games in a convivial atmosphere with players from the whole country?
Join the Cosmic Go League: free and open to any member of the Belgian Go Federation!
More info:
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The go club "Le Chaff" is now the "Phénix Go Club" and moved to a new place.

Phénix Go Club

Local player and co-organiser Jan Ramon (4D) has won the 19th edition of the Leuven Go Tournament. He was just a few SOSOS points ahead of François Gonze (Louvain-La-Neuve,2D) who defeated in the last round T.Mark Hall (UK,4D). Hall finished on rang 3. There was also a good result for Kwinten Missiaen (5/5), and Marie Jemine, Vincent Lochen, Kenny Debacq, Maarten Fabré and Laure Lambaerts (4/5).

Full results

The 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 :

 
The Belgian Go Federation will be represented at Made In Asia on 14th and 15th March 2009. During the whole weekend, initiations and demonstrations will be organized in order to make Go more popular.

Find more info on madeinasia.be.

Full results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship are now available here.

The results of the preliminaries of the Belgian championship:

In the first round there were two surprising results, with Daniel French (6k) winning against Kristof Bossee (1d) and Kenny Debacq (7k) against Michael Meeschaert (1k).

After the first day there was only one player with no lost games, Lucas Neirynck, who finished the entire tournament without losing a single game.
The first three places were certain after 6 rounds, but the last round was still exciting to determine fourth and fifth place. Only when the final game finished (Kristof Bossee won by just half a point from Dr. Wong Chi Yiu), were the reduced SOS, SOS and SODOS clear enough to determine the people who placed themselves for the finals.

1. Lucas Neirynck
2. Wang Yue
3. Christopher Annachachibi
4. Michael Meeschaert
5. Daniel French
6. Kristof Bossee
7. Wong Chi Yiu
8. Dennis Vercammen
9. Hicham Vanborm
10. Kwinten Missiaen
11. Kenny Debacq
12. Peter Leyssens
13. Ismail Dogru
14. Joost Vannieuwenhuyse

Full results will be posted later.

François 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