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Belgium lost severely against Austria (0-4). No wonder: they were stronger on paper anyway.

Now remains the last round to play. The teams ending 9th and 10th will to be demoted in 3rd division. Belgium is 8th, just one point ahead of Croatia...against which we will play in this last round in May ! Suspens ! (a draw would be enough).

Belgium Austria Score 0-4
Jan Ramon (janr) 4 dan Viktor Lin (Sandmann) 5 dan W+26.5
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4 dan Bernhard Scheid (Pok) 5 dan B+7,5
Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1 dan Jürgen Suntinger (Juergonaut) 3 dan W+14.5
Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1 kyu Wolfgang Krames (Koffein) 2 dan B+resign

This round was played on Sunday 27th March at 8:00pm. We scored three wins against Spain, which is quite a nice result. The games should be online soon on the official website.

Spain	Belgium	Score
Joan Pons (semelis) 3d (B)	Jan Ramon (janr) 4d (W)	W+R
Jesús Roldán (jesusin0) 2d (W)	Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4d (B)	B+R
Alvaro Parra (pichon) 2d (B)	Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1d (W)	B+R
Carlos Villagrá (carlosv) 4k (W)	Vincent Lochent (GFox) 4k (B)	B+35,5

Exciting games for this Belgian Championship! Congratulations to all the players and especially to Lucas Neirynck who took back the title of Belgian Champion.
You can find some pictures of the tournament here, the full results here, the games of the two first boards on BelChamp1's account on KGS, and soon an accurate report and commented games in BelgoNet.

No miracle: Belgium has been severely beaten (0-4) by Sweden (which was stronger on paper anyway...)

After 6 of the 9 rounds, Belgium is 8th out of the 10 teams. At the end, the 2 last teams will descend into 3rd division for the next season)...Let us cross the fingers we will stay ahead of Spain and Croatia...

Individual results

Belgium	Sweden	Score
Jan Ramon (janr) 4 dan	Fredrik Blomback (FreddaSWE) 5 dan	W+6.5
Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) 4 dan	Martin Li (MartinSWE) 5 dan	B+4.5
Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1 dan	Klas Almroth (SWEKlas) 4 dan	W+Resign
Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1 kyu	Erik Ouchterlony (ejlo) 3 dan	B+Resign

 
Complete results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/15

Belgium finally scored a point with a nice 2-2 match. Find the full results and the games here

Belgium vs. Slovenia
  2 – 2

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 19:00 GMT

Belgium	Slovenia	Score
(B) Jan Ramon (janr) 4 dan	(W) Leon Matoh (lmatoh) 5 dan	B+ resign
(W) Benjamin Gigot (Pinchilei) 1 dan	(B) Gregor Butala (tiger) 5 dan	B+resign
(B) Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1 dan	(W) Andrej Kralj (eltoro) 3 dan	W+resign
(W) Kwinten Missiaen (Kwik) 1 dan	(B) Aleš Pogačnik (roforofo) 3 dan	W+3.5

Lucas Neirynck (4D, Louvain-La-Neuve) has won the 21st edition of the Leuven tournament. After 5 rounds he remained undefeated. Second place was shared by Jan Ramon (4D, Leuven) who only lost to Neirynck, and Christopher Annachachibi (1D!, Le Pantin), who also only lost to Neirynck. Also good scores for David Katchaturian (4k, Le Pantin) and Philip Kocks (20k, Gent) with 4/5 and Maarten Savels (11k, Gent) with 5/5!

Full results

Finales du Championnat de Belgique 2010
1. Jan Ramon 4d
2. François Gonze 3d
3. Alain Wettach 4d
4. Thomas Connor 3d
5. Kwinten Missiaen 1d
Préliminaires du Championnat de Belgique 2011
1. Kévin Prist 2k
2. Nelis Vets 2d
3. Christopher Annachachibi 1d
4. Dominique Versyck 1k
5. Lucas Neirynck 4d

There was a mistake in the first list. Note that those players have been selected for the Final tour (5-6 and 19-20/03/11)

Unfortunately, once again, the strengh difference proved to be too great: Belgium lost 0-4 to Danemark in the 4th round (played 25/01/11)...

Results here: http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/13

Despite the fact that no Belgian player has lost against a (on paper) weaker opponent up till now, Belgium has only 2 points after the 4 first rounds...(looks like typical Belgian Eurovision score, isn'it ?! :-) 

 

Denmark	Belgium	Score
B Kasper Hornbæk (kash) 5 dan	W Nelis Vets (Nelis) 1 dan	B+Resign
W Thomas Heshe (daydreamer) 4 dan	B Christopher Annachachibi (HisokaH) 1 dan	W+Resign
B Uffe Rasmussen (Laudrup) 4 dan	W Dominique Versyck (dversyck) 1 kyu	B+Resign
W Jannik Rasmussen (JRDK) 4 dan	B Vincent Lochen (GFox) 4 kyu	W+Resign

 

 

Beligum - Poland 0-4

Board 1:	Mateusz Surma (Drakula95) - Jan Ramon (janr)	W+Time
Board 2:	Lucas Neirynck (Cucurucucu) - Marek Kaminsky (Kamyk)	B+Resign
Board 3:	Cezary Czernecki (apole) - Nelis Vets (Nelis)	W+Resign
Board 4:	Kwinten Missiael (Kwik) - Sebastian Pawlaczyk (Nilatarion)	B+4,5

- Pantin got last place with 2 points, having played only two rounds (despite being by far the largest club in Belgium !)
- Antwerpen got fourth place with 6 points
- Namur - previous champions - became third with 7 points and 13 'ponderated' points
- Gent got second place with 7 points and 14 ponderated points
- Leuven is the new winner with 8 points.

Congratulations to Leuven ! The trophy, currently held be Namur, will now go to Leuven.