Results

Belgium still unbeaten after 5 rounds in the European Team Championship

Belgian team remained unbeaten after its victory on Spain (3-1) on 13th of February (Gérald Westhoff -, François Gonze +, Gabriel Mercier +, Nelis Vets +).

With just 2 rounds still to be played, it is now likely Belgium will reintegrate B-league next year, but attention: Lithuania is only 2 points behind us :-)

Result of the round: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/431

Standings: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

Pavol Lisy wins the 3rd European Professional Championship

The 3rd European Professional Championship, in which participated nearly all active European professional players, was organized from 6th to the 9th of February in Romania.

Pavol Lisy (5/6 - defeated by Ali Jabarin) won this edition, followed by Ilya Shikchine (5/6 - defeated by Pavol Lisy) and Artem Kachanovskij (4/6).

These 3 players will represent European in forthcoming professional tournaments.

Further, ended...
4th: Alexander Dinerstein (3/6)
5th: Mateusz Surma (2/6)
6th: Ali Jabarin (2/6)
7th: Andreii Kravets (0/6)

More info here: https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=191

Amazing how these pros are close in strength (Ilya seems to be a little stronger and Andreii a little weaker than the others): in tournaments in which they play each other, they alternate good and less good results (f.i. compare the results of Lisy and of Jabarin here with the ones they got in Olomuc : https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=185) ...

Thomas Connor wins the tournament of Leuven (which met a nice success: 47 participants !)

Thomas Connor emerged as the winner of the 2018 edition of the Leuven tournament, which met a great success (47 competitors !).

Thomas scored 4/5, just like Zicheng Wang (CH, 4d) but Thomas had a better SOS.
François Gonze scored 2/2, beating Thomas, but only played the Sunday.

Young Louis Baudaux (5k), Gints Engelen (10k) and Wouter Baert (18k) remained undefeafed !

Complete result here:
http://www.gofed.be/tournament/results?tournament=LEU&year=2018

Ali Jabarin (IL, 1p) wins the 2017 Grand Prix Finale in Olomuc (CZ); great achievement by Oscar Vazquez

The Grand Prix Finale is a tournament in which only the 16 best players in the 2017 Grand Prix season ranking can compete.

Like the F1 Grand Prix, the "Grand Prix" organized by the European Go Federation awards points according to the 6 best placed players in some 2017 European tournaments (some - big - tournaments weights more than - small - others).

The grand Prix Finale was organized in 2 steps: firstly, the 16 players played against each others in 4 groups of 4 players. The 2 best of each division are qualified for a K-O tournament.

In the preliminary rounds, 2 of the 7 pros (Lisy and Kravets) were suprisingly eliminated. The feat was the qualification of "our" Oscar Vazquez (a mere 5-d).
But in the semi-finals, sure enough, there were only pros left...

Finally, Ali Jabarin won the final against Artem Kachanovskij.
Ilya Shikchin got the bronze medal, beating Mateusz Surma in the "little final".

Complete results here: http://www.olgo.cz/en/clanky/2017/grand-prix-final-2017-olomouc/

Belgium team remains undeafed after 4 rounds in the European Team Championship !

Belgium team, composed by François Gonze +, Jan Ramon -, Gabriel Mercier + and Nelis Vets +, won against South Africa (3-1) in the 4th round of the C-league of the European (yes) Team Championship.

Belgium team dominates now the C league...but it remains 3 rounds to run...

Result of the round: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/430

Standings: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

PS: note also France's nice victory on Russia in the A league
http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/413
France is now leader in A-league !

Lucman Bounoider undefeated at the Selction Tournament of the Belgian Championship 2018

The Selection Tournament of the Belgian Championship 2018 took place on the week-end of the 25th and 26th of November in Antwerpen.

This year, 17 players took part to this tournament, a great success!

The biggest surprise of the week-end was the performance of Lucman Bounoider, 3d: he remained undefeated, winning his games against Oscar Vazquez, 5d and Thomas Connor, 4d. Congratulations to him!

The five seats for the finals of the Belgian Championship are given in order to:

1. Lucman Bounoider
2. Oscar Vazquez
3. Thomas Connor
4. Thibault Pillon
5. Bram Vandenbon

They will play in the finals against Lucas Neirynck, Gabriel Mercier, François Gonze, Kwinten Missiaen and Nelis Vets.

In case one of the finalists drops off, the next candidates are:

6. Victor Schneider
7. Joost Vannieuwenhuyse
8. Marie Jemine

Full results of the tournament can be found here.

Belgium team still unbeaten after 3 rounds in the European Team Championship

After wins on Georgia (4-0), Slovakia (3-1) and Croata (3-1), Belgium team remains unbeaten after 3 rounds in the European Team Championship in C-league.

If things go on like this, Belgium will reintegrade next season the B-league (from which we were demoted last year)...but the season has just begun...

Standings: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps

Results:
round 1: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/427
round 2: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/428
round 3: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/429

Jonas Welticke wins Brussels Tournament 2017 with a perfect score

The 32nd Brussels Tournament took place on the weekend of the 28th and 29th of October.

Jonas Welticke, 6d, from Germany, won the tournament undefeated. Second was Chen Qi, 4d, and third Oscar Vazquez, 5d.

Complete results can be found under this link.

Chinese Zhao Yikang wins 2017 KPMC - François Gonze 16th

Chinese Zhao Yikang won unbeaten the 2017 edition of KPMC (the Korean Prime Minister Cup; Korean version of the World Amateur Go Championship) ahead of the Japanese and of the Korean representatives.
Five players ended with 5/6, among whom the best Western player was the Mexican Abraham Florencia and best European was the Russian Dimitri Surine.

This year, "our guy" was François Gonze. He ended 16th with a 4/6 score (wins against Ireland, Singapour,Sweden and Macao; lost against Netherlands and VietNam).

Note also the participation of the (ex ?) player from Brussels Philippe Fanaro, who represented Brazil and ended 32th with a 3/3 score.

There were 56 participants.

Complete results here: http://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/eng/result/gameTable.asp

Zhang Tao (CH, 5p) wins the 2017 open European championship in Oberhof (European Congress)

Zhang Tao (CH, 5p) wins undefeated the open European championship.
His countrywoman Li Xiaoxi (CH, 2p) ended 2nd having just lost against him.
Bronze medal - and 1st European - is Mateusz Surma (PL, 1p), who only lost against the 2 Chinese pros.
Winner of last year edition of the open championship, Kim YoungSam (KR, 7d), finished 4th with 7/10.
Follows another 7d Korean, Lee Kibong, best player on SOS tie-breaker among the 6 players with 6/10...
There 821 participants, among whom 17 Belgian ones.

Complete results: http://www.egc2017.eu/events/main-tournaments/open-european-championship...

Kim YoungSam won the WE tournament (in which the Chinese pros did not take part)ahead Pavol Lisy (SK, 1p) and the new European pro, Andrii Kravets (UK, 1p), who both only lost to Kim.
There were 635 participants, among whom 19 Belgian ones.

Complete results: http://www.egc2017.eu/events/main-tournaments/weekend-tournament/

Globally, the Belgian results are in the average, with some remarkable performance:
in the main tournament: 4/5 for Thomas Connor (3d), Gabriel Mercier (3d) and Philippe Tranchida (4k); 5/7 for Laurens Teirlinck (5k)
in the WE tournament: 5/5 (!) for John Cassidy (7k); 4/5 for Philippe Tranchida (4k), Roel Van Nyen (3k), Victor Schneider (4k) and Juliette Brault (15k).
Congratulations to them !

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