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Results5th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium made (only) a draw against Ireland but remains leaderIn the 5th round of the European Team Championshipon played on 22/03, Belgium team (Lucas +, Jan Ramon -, Lucman Bounoider - and Sven Cuyt +) made (only) a draw against Ireland (2-2). Belgium remains leader, 2 points ahead of Lithuania, with still 2 rounds to play. Results of the round here: https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/rounds/786 NB: in 1st division, Russian team has been excluded (decision of the EGF/IGF).
4th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium continues his winning streak: 3-1 against LithuaniaBelgian team won once again (Lucas Neirynck +, Jan Ramon +, Lucman Bounoider +, Gabriel Mercier -), this time against the most direct concurrent, Lithuania (for the 1st time this season, the Belgian lost a game). Belgian dominates the C-division more than ever. Complete results here: Standings after 4 rounds:
Ilya Shikshin wins the Grand Prix Finale 2021! Pavol Lisy second and Ali Jabarin third.The European Grand Prix is an annual series of tournaments with the top-finishers collecting so-called “bonus points”, these tournaments include the European Championship and the Grand Slam + various international competitions held by local organizers. The EGF invites the 16 most successful participants, who are divided into four groups of four players. "Our" Lucas Neirynck was one of the 16, but was logically eliminated in the 1st stage despite a victory to Jan Prokop (6-d, CZ): he was defeated by Mateusz Surma (2-p) and Ilya Shikchine (4-p). The usual suspects qualified for the quarters of finals, in which a big surprise was the elimination of Artem Kachanovskij (2-p) by Nikola Mitic, a mere 7-d.
A 3rd consecutive sweeping victory for the Belgian team in the European Team Championship (4-0 against Slovenia)Belgian team goes on his impressive start in the 12th European Team Championship: our team (composed this time by Jan Ramon, Lucman Bounoider, Gabriel Mercier and Sven Cuyt) won the 3rd round on the same score as the one of the first 2 rounds: again a sweeping victory 4-0 ! Complete results here:
Artem Kachanovskyi wins the 2021 Grand Slam. Tanguy Le Calvé, surprising finalist.Artem Kachanovskyi (UKR, 3p) won the 2021 Grand Slam, the richest doted European competition (5.000 € for the winner), by beating in final the Frenchman Tanguy Le Calvé (FR, 1p). Tanguy had surprisingly beaten the great favourite Ilya Shikchine (RUS, 4p), 8 times European champion, in semi-final ! Ilya did win the little final against Mateusz Surma (PL, 2p). Here are the results: https://www.eurogofed.org/grandprix/grandslam2021.html
Ath wins the 2021 InterclubsThe club of Ath has won the 2021 interclubs season, ahead of last year winner, Leuven. Five clubs had registered at the beginning of the year, but after just one round Brussels-Pantin dropped off (without officially notifying the organizers). Finally, this club was given a general forfeit. Here is the final standing: And here are the results of each round: https://www.gofed.be/node/1242
Sven Cuyt (1d) and Gints Engelen (2k) become 2021 Belgian Rengo Champions10 years after the last edition of the Belgian Rengo Championship, it was high time to resurrect it. This year the tournament took place on Sunday 19 December, on which day we saw 4 pairs battling it out for eternal glory, and also for the title of 2021 Belgian Rengo Champions: Sven Cuyt (1d) and Gints Engelen (2k) Despite the arguably high stakes, the tournament unfolded as a rather jolly affair: every 10 minutes or so the sound of ticking clocks would be interrupted by fits of laughter at one of the tables. Most participants not having had much Rengo practice during the pandemic, the question "is it my turn" resounded countless times. Sometimes, when a group was on the verge of dying, a prayer to the Go'ds could be heard (specifically: by the player whose turn it was not). In all this merriment, 3 rounds were played. At the end, Sven Cuyt (1d) and Gints Engelen (2k) found themselves undefeated and thus became the 2021 Belgian Rengo Champions! Here are the full results: ROUND 1: ROUND 2: ROUND 3:
Ilya Shikchine (4-p) is 2021 European ChampionFavourite Ilya Shikchine (RU, 4-p) became European Champion this year. Ali Jabarin (IL, 2-p) won the "little final" against Pavol Lisy (SK, 2-p) to take the bronze medal. It is his 8 European title (Ilya has already been European champion in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2017, 2019 and in 2020). He equalizes the record of late Jürgen Mattern (DE, 6-d) (who has been also 8 times European champion, in the 60's and the 70's). Completed results: https://www.eurogofed.org/egc/2021.html PS: in the preliminary rounds (4 pools of 4 players), Lucas Neirynck (BE, 6-d) won against the European rising star, Oscar Vazquez (SP, 6-d), but later lost to Jonas Welticke (DE, 6-d) and to Dusan Mitic (SR, 7-d)...and was eliminated.
Lucman Bounoider (3d), 2021 rapid games Belgian championLucman Bounoider won the 2021 edition of the Belgian Championship of rapid games (15 min per player, sudden death; handicap - 2). There were 8 participants (a rather dissappointing figure) Lucman got 6 wins in 7 rounds (he only lost to Renaud Gaban). Jinming He (3-d) and Naomi Benseid (4-k) got 3 wins. And Michael Silcher (4-k), Jean-Denis Hennebert (4-k) and Gaspard Leleux (8-k) got 2 wins.
Impressive start by the Belgian team in the 12th European Team ChampionshipBelgian team made an impressive start in the 12th European Team Championship: our team, composed by Lucas Neirynck, Jan Ramon, Lucman Bounoider and Gabriel Mercier, won the first 2 rounds, each time by a perfect 4-0 score, against Spain and Denmark. True, Belgium had been demoted to C-league last year, so that the objective of our team captain, Roberto Martinez, oops, Gabriel Mercier I mean, is to finish at the 1st place this year to re-integrate B-league next year. Complete results here:
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