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NewsLooking for participants in the Pandanet Team ChampionshipHello 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!
Fan Hui (Fr, 2-p), European Champion 2015; Wang Zhemin (CHI, 3p) open European championIn 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) --> results of the top 24 players *** 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: *** 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: 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. *** 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)
Register now for the go stageThe registrations for the yearly go weekend have openend. For more info follow the links
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). 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)
Belgian Blitz Championship 2015Dominique Versyck is our new Belgian Blitz Champions of 2015, the runner up was Demian Walvisch who only lost to Dominique. We had a cozy 8 participants this year, which is just the right amount to play a full 'round robin' of 7 rounds.
11th (and last) round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Austria 2-2 . Belgium ended 8th (out of 12) in B leagueOn 26th of May, Belgium (Jan, Kwinten, Nelis, Gabriel) made a draw against Austria is the 11th and last round of this competition. Detailled result of the 11th round: Season 2014-15 of the European team championship is now over: Belgium ended as 8th (out of 12 teams). Congratulations to all players who have played for Belgium !
10th round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Slovakia 3-1On 28th April, by beating Slovakia, a direct opponent, Belgium is sure to stay in B-league next year: it remains only one round to play and "we" have now enough points to avoid relegation. This time, the team was composed by Jan, Thomas, Nelis and Gabriel. Detailled result of the 10th round: After 10 of the 11 rounds, Belgium is 9th (out of 12 teams). Note that the qualification phase in A-league has come to an end. The 4 qualified teams for the final round (which will be played during the European Congress this summer) are: Czechia, Romania, France and Ukraine. Russia finished 5th...and is eliminated, despite its 2 pro players (Shikchin and Dinnerstein)!
Belgian Blitz Championship 2015On June 6th the BGF organizes the 2015 Belgian Blitz Championship. This tournament is open and free for all BGF members.
8th Antwerp Go TournamentOn the first weekend of Juli the 8th Antwerp Go Tournament will be held. Prize money will be atleast € 500 but will scale up number of participants.
Ilya Shikchin won Grand Slam in Berlin, the most important tournament of the year, confirming "best European player" status.Ilya Shikchin, one of the 2 new (2015) pro "European made", won the most important European tournament of the year (...and 10.000 €): the (1st) Grand Slam Tournament (in Berlin). Schikchin beat in final the other new (2015) pro: Mateusz Surma. It was a fantastic game, in which he showed all his talents (find here the commented game by video: https://gogameguru.com/). He confirms his n°1 status of European-born players ! A selection tourmament, reserved to the top European amateur players, had been organised so as to select 8 players, to join the 4 new European pros for this Grand Slam tournament. Here are the complete results: Note: 3 of the 4 European-made pros played the semi-finals (Pavol Lisy was surprisingly eliminated by Cristian Pop in quater finals)
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