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| Paris retreats to Antony for Eastern |
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  Paris Pandanet Paques, for many years successfully hosted at the ancient Mairie of the XIII in the South of Paris, amidst a wide range of exotic East Asian cuisine, has to retreat to another place, due to renovation of the old City Hall. Organizers decided on Lycée Descartes, 1 av. Lavoisier in Antony, just South of Paris. Inscribe!
Paris is the final tournament of the Pandanet season. For years, it has been the largest weekend event of the year - set aside the middle weekend of the EGC.
With a first prize of 1000 euros, many top players are expected to take part. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 23:45 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Belgian Championship, part 1 |
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In absence of the defending champion, Lucas Neirynck (4d), who is taking a temporarily break from playing, ten players started the search for a new one.
 The first weekend was dominated by François Gonze (left, 3d, Louvain-la-Neuve), who won all his games, including the one against veteran Alain Wettach (4d).
Wettach also lost against Pieter Beyens (2d, Antwerp).
With 3 out of 4 Beyens stays in the running, together with Jan Ramon (4D, Leuven) who lost to Wang Yue and Thomas Connor (3d, Brussels) who lost to Ramon.
Gonze still has to play Ramon, Connor and Beyens in the second part (20-21 March) of this round robin tournament.
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| placed by EuroGoTV-Be at 22:37 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Ondrej Irish Open champ |
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 Ondrej Silt 6d (CZ, right) upset Wei Wang 7d, winner of last year's Irish Congress in his home-town of Cork, in the Teacher's Club at the old heart of Dublin, March 4-7.
Wei was second, while Willem Mallon 4d and Willem-Koen Pomstra 5d (both of Holland) shared 3rd. Kim Ouweleen 2d (NL) and Quentin Mills 4d (UK) also won 3. With 4-1 each, Michal Lukasiewicz 2k (just like last year, NL), Edwin Brady 2k (UK), Sue Paterson 3k (UK) and Sonja Zaroba 9k (Berlin) did well.
At Friday before the Open with 41, the Congress had kicked off with a handicap rapid, where 24 took part. Edwin Brady 2k (UK) had best sos. Also Justyna Klaczar 3k (PL), Willem-Koen, James Hutchinton 1k (UK) and Kim won 4-1.
"The traditional post-tournament pints at the Old Stand" (left) brought beer-lovers to Dublin, among them EGC-2009 Groningen organizers Herman Hiddema 4d, Rene Goedhart 3d, Karen Pleit 1k and Martin Finke 3k (all NL), and Martin Klemsa 2k (CZ).
Tournament Director was Eoghan Barry. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 22:00 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Francesco Marigo Campione Italiano 2009 |
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  Francesco Marigo 4d from Milano regained his (2001-2006) title as Champion of Italy last Friday in Pisa, hometown of his opponent Carlo Metta 1k, who had lost the first game in Bologna last year. Next he lost both games in Pisa.
At the Italian site Nicoletta Corradi also reported on the Torneo di Firenze (Florence tournament), held last weekend at the agro-tourist site in Colleoli (right) in the green hills of Toscany. Victor was Viktor Bogdanov 5d from Petrozavodsk in Russian Karelia. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 19:00 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Manja Marz BST-Meister(in) |
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 Manja Marz 4d - "Exilsachsin" from Marburg - was best at the BST-Meisterschaft last weekend in Leipzig. Next were locals Jens Henker 4d (2nd left) and David Schmidt 1d (left). BST is Brandenburg, Sachsen, Thüringen. Extra flowers for Manja!
In the 1k-6k bracket Karsten Graf (2nd right), finished before Frank Heinike (right). Thilo Burkhardt (3rd left) was best <6k. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 18:30 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Master Mateusz Youth-EC |
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  Mateusz Surma 4d (left) from Poland proved that he had learned a lot recently in Korea.
In Sibiu he won 5-1 the <16 European Title, ahead of Vanessa Wong 4d (UK), Jurij Mikhaljuk 2d (UA) and Lukas Podpera 4d (CZ). Only Alexandru Siciu 11k won all six rounds.
(Photo right: congratulations from Takemiya 9P ;-)
Anson Ng 1k (UK) won <12, also 5-1. Next were Alexandru Pitrop 4k, Silvestru State 6k (both RO), Oliver Wolf 1k (DE), Stepan Popov 1d (RU) and Vladyslav Verteleckij with 4-2 each, while Mikhail Sidorenko 3d (RU) won 3-1. Three kids also had 5-1.
Mihai Valentin Serban 4d (RO) swept the <18 title 6-0. Roman Ruzhanskij 1d (UA) lost only to him and Laura Avram 1d (RO) to both of them. She finished at third place.
Christian Pop 7d swept the side event during the weekend 5-0. Cornel Burzo 6d won 4-1 silver and Lucian Corlan 5d 3-2 bronze. With so many strong players present - and the special guests Saijo sensei 9P, Catalin Taranu 5P and Csaba Merö 6d - all kids had a great opportunity to learn a lot more at the Youth-EC in Sibiu. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 18:00 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Swedes still lead KILL A and B |
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After the first week of playing, Swedish participants lead both top divisions of KILL.
Fredda is still on top of A with 4-0, ahead of Latnir (Russia) and Artem92 (Ukraine) with 1-0, with Marocsan (Hungary) and Teamrocket (NL) following at 2-1.
In B division remake is well ahead 7-1 of rus172 (Elvina is on even 1-1 with him) and adoreme (D) 3-1. AGA E-Journal editor Chris Garlock is next with a 2-1 result so far. Texmurphy from Hungary runs away with C 14-2, with DRhazar from Canada at his (her?) heels 9-2. Russians Ladurr lead D-division 4-0 and Kenjo E 3-0. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 03:45 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Vit views of vital points |
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 Vit 'tasuki' Brunner 4d published "Just a few random pictures"
at Picasa with a link on Facebook.
He pictured some old 'vital points' in Poland.
And his new 'vital points' of life in Amsterdam:
signs in the snow "white death"- a view along a canal ('cold') -
Tomas Kozelek (also 4d) cooking their dinner ('warm' ;-)). |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 02:46 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Red roses for favourite friend |
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 My favourite lady celebrates a special party today.
For several reasons:
1. International Women's Day is her birthday.
2. This year she celebrates a luxury lustrum.
We wish her as many happy returns!
Anna is fond of flowers and 'hot' chocalate.
So we selected a picture with red roses and pralines. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 01:23 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Flowers for ladies today |
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 Remember guys - it is international women's day today!
So, pretend the weather is not cold, know that Spring is near and buy your favourite ladies bouquets of flowers.
Next invite them for a couple of games.
Perhaps a flower-viewing ko will yield you at least one win. We wish you all a very nice day and lots of games. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 00:12 Mon 08 March 2010 |
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| Fredrik Blomback flowers in Vaesteras |
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 Scandinavian Champion Fredrik Blomback (left, with Csaba Merö at EGC-2008 in Leksand) swept the Vaesteras Open last weekend of February, where 28 of 10 different clubs all over Sweden took part.
Martin Li (5d also, Falun) and Charlie Akerblom 4d from Norrköping only lost to Fredrik. Jakob Bing 2k of Göteborg, Robert Aahs 4k (Karlskrona) and Robin Nilsson 11k from the capital Stockholm also won four games. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 23:45 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| HH-Harburg Mousetrap |
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 The Harburger Mausefalle ('Mousetrap' is German for snapback) has an history of great winners since 2002. Only German (former) Champions and 7d's from Korea managed to win there. It is also a large tournament, allways attracting 100+ players. See some photo's.
This weekend In-seong Hwang 7d (B) was main favourite.
Indeed, he swept the event 5-0. Veteran Stefan Kaitschick 5d (HH) lost only once. Also undefeated were local Timo Kreuzer 1k - he likely made his sho-dan prove with a win over 1d and 2 to 2d's - and Olaf Engel 5k (Flensburg). 
In-seong now joined the select group of those to win the Mausefalle twice - Christoph Gerlach, current Deutscher Meister and Benjamin Teuber (left, both 6d). Only Seok-bin Cho 7d won it thrice. Those four guys keep their Mousetraps exclusively.
Next to money prizes at the top and books for other winners, there were two special prizes. Olga Silber 1k (right) was best woman with 4-1. She got a luxury set of stones. Best youth Timo won a big go-ban. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 22:22 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| Saijo special guest at Youth-EC |
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 At the 15th Youth Goe European Championship in Sibiu three special guests were invited to celebrate the third lustrum, March 4-7. Number One - Saijo Sensei 9p, number two - Catalin Taranu 5p, his pupil and now President of the Romanian Go Association and number three - Csaba Merö 6d, winner of the first Youth-EC in Baile Felix (also Romania, 1996).
Sibiu, formerly known as Hermannstadt is in central Romania. Together with Luxembourg it was European Capital of Culture in 2007. In Sibiu 75 kids played for the <12 title, 48 for the <16 and 13 in <18, while 40 grown-ups played in the Open.
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| placed by Peter Dijkema at 21:00 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| Zoran Simeounovic Swept Samac |
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 Zoran Simeunovic 5d from Bosnia won the 5th championship of Samac in Bosnia undefeated 5-0. Dragan Barisic 5d (Bosnia) was second with three wins and Robert Jovicic 3k of Zagreb (HR) finished third with four wins.
Remarkably, all other participants from Zagreb won also 4-1: Mato Tausan 9k and the family Pejanovic - Fran 11k and Filip 13k.
In Samac last weekend of February, 25 from 8 clubs in 4 different countries took part. Rado Babic (left) 12k from Austria entered the results in the European Database. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 20:00 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| Meng Master Student at World Oza |
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XiaoLong Meng from China defeated Yutae Seo from Korea in the fourth and final round of the 8th World Oza Student Championship, held early March in Tokio.
Artem Kachanovskij was male representative of Europe. In first round he lost to Master Meng. Next he defeated Anna Prokopova (also Europe) and Gabriel Benmergui (Argentina). He lost his fourth game to a Taiwanese player. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 03:30 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| Fredda first in KILL-A |
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| Fredda from Sweden is the early leader in the top division of KILL with 4-0. Next are four with 1-1: Maroncsan (HU), Teamrocket (NL), OohAah (Israel) and ha (France). Favourites danigabi and artem92 did not play yet. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 03:01 Sun 07 March 2010 |
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| Future Champs of Hungary |
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 Hungary has had top names in European go since Tibor Pocsai won the EC in 1988. Now the big guys are Csaba Mero and Pal Balogh and the big girls Diana Koszegi 1P and Tibor's daughter Rita 4d. Still, they look to the future.
The schoolkid's championship kicked off in Hejökeresztúr in the East with 45. "There were lots of age groups, lots of prizes, lots of happy children", reports Péter Korossy. "Next day in Pápa (photo) in the West 18 took part."
Next weekend, in Sziretszentmiklós (centre) 14 played and the day after in Budapest 24, despite the concurrence of Rabbity Six - same place, same time (see below).
The finals in all groups are up in May in Budapest - capital of Hungarian go-life. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 04:00 Fri 05 March 2010 |
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| Chen chopped Dresden |
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 Lei Chen 6d easily chopped 5-0 the challenge of the other hopefulls at the 23rd Dresden Open. Marc Landgraf 3d only lost to Lei and Thomas Hübner 3d won bronze. All are from Dresden, like a majority of the 36 participants.
Andreas Döring 5k and Paul Hübner 13k also won four, while the latter won the kid's 13x13 as well. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 03:00 Fri 05 March 2010 |
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| Elvina first to beat Ilya in KILL |
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 The special prize set by Alex Dinerchtein for players from B-E leagues of KILL fell soon. Ilya got a clean 197-0 record in the first two months. Early March he won two more.
In a simul of six he lost his 200th game by half a point.
The winner was Elvina Karlsberg 4d (left, 'rus172'). She is current Russian women Champion. With two stones she defeated him by half a point. The game record is available on go-sensations. Her prize: a book of trick moves. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 02:01 Thu 04 March 2010 |
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| Bonn best in playing elsewhere |
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 In Deutsche Go-Zeitung 85(!)-1, Torsten Knauf (right) reports on the Rhine-Maas League. It is one of three in NordRheinland-Westfalen, next to the Ruhr- and Westfalen Leagues. With Limburg taking part, it is the international one. Teams visit each others club evenings once a month for a double round.
Nomen est Omen - Tenuki Bonn was both best at home and elsewhere, as they took the last title undefeated. For the next league - up for April/May - he called on "Go-metropoles" Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf to take part. His geographical criterium is: Pi inches ("Pi mal Daumen") from the rivers. We wonder, whether Nijmegen would match his rule. Venlo for sure. Write him at Torsten-Knauf@web.de |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 01:23 Wed 03 March 2010 |
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| MGE Hungarian Team Champ by one point |
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 The 7th and final round of the Hungarian Team League was very exciting. Leaders MGE-1 and Origo had won five and a mutual draw. Origo had more board points, but faced a tougher opponent. When MGE-1 crushed 8-1  PaGoda-2, including a victory of Attila Téby by only one point over Gergely Meszaros, it was clear that Origo would need to win 7-2 to take first place. Half a point less (jigo is possible with 6 komi) would yield a tie. But Origo defeated PaGoda Agro by only 6-3, and fell one point short. Winners got champagne (right) and money prizes. PaGoda-1 (left) - Alexandra Urban, Júlia Seres and Péter Markó - won bronze.
The ceremony took place after the Rabbity Six, Saturday 27. Péter Korossy reported. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 22:30 Tue 02 March 2010 |
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| KILL: special prize on head of Ilya |
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 Alex (right) set a special prize for the first player from B-E divisions of KILL, who will 'kill' 'roln111' on the board.
While Alex has lost some games in almost every division, Ilya incurred only a few losses in A division, but he has kept a clean record in B-E, lifting his 97-0 in January to 98-0 in February. The prize: a collection of trick moves.
A: danigabi swept the title 13-0, ahead of artem92 11-1.
B: Latmir (R) 7-1, Maroncsan (H) 11-3, Teamrocket 11-4.
C: azorod (R) 1-0, Sinprejic (US) 7-3. D: DarkArhont 7-1, Badukboris (D) 7-3. E: Srgej (R) & lighthouse (D) 14-2. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 02:00 Tue 02 March 2010 |
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| Handicap heavens in Sevilla and Moscow |
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 La Carboneria in Sevilla attracted one guest from Huelva, the other 16 were locals, like Alejandro Lopez who won 4. Ulrich Gottwald 2k had best sos with 3 wins, while Raoul Aguilera 10 k won bronze (Saturday 21.02.2010).
The Kido Cup in Moscow on Sunday 22 saw 64 compete, most from Moscow. Andrej Kashaev 4d headed the table. He won 4-1. The real winners were 5 5-0 kyu's: Alexandr Tishin 7k, Sergej Trjapsha 12k, Nikolaj Antonov 13k and Galina Glushko 20k, while Vladimir Kuzmin 8k went 4-0. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 00:00 Tue 02 March 2010 |
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| Crown of Kranj for Jure Rogelj |
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 Local Jure Rogelj 12k won Kyu Turnir of Kranj in Slovenia, ahead on sos of Davide Bertok 9k (left) of Trieste (Italy). Both won 4-1 in the handicap event. Jan Igor 10k kept bronze home with his best sos and three wins.
Only ten took part in Kranj. Besides Davide, and Anna Marconi 13k (5th) from Udinese, all participants were local heroes. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 22:00 Mon 01 March 2010 |
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| Jan Hora five-blanco in Blansko |
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 We used to know Jan as a 5d, but in the V Blansko he started as 6d, which gave him wings as he flew to a 5-0 victory. Mateusz Surma 4d (PL) finished second with 4 wins. According go.art.pl, he just came back from some months in Korea. They hope he will do well next week as well, winning a medal in the youth-EC in Romania. Another wrote, Mateusz would become the new Malysz - the ski-flyer - which would mean flying to a silver medal.
Ondrej Silt 6d got bronze on sos. His second loss was to Maros Kral 3d of Kosice (SK, 7th). In between them: Ondrej Kruml, Jan Prokop (both 4d) and Peter Valasek 2d. In Blansko 81 took part. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 21:00 Mon 01 March 2010 |
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| Berlin is one of several new awards |
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 At the American Go Congresses many special prizes are awarded every year. One of them is 'kyu-killer' - 'our' Horst Sudhoff (80+) won it several times. 'Grasshopper' is for the largest rating increase. 'Philantropist': most losses and 'Optimist' for largest rating decrease.
We propose a few new categories: 'Pessimist' aka 'Best Sandbagger' for the player with the best rating increase. 'Grass-shopper' for those who tested positive for doping after drinking coffee in an Amsterdam coffeeshop. Usually at the Amsterdam Open - after their coffee-break - their rise in level of imagination matches their augmented abundance of accuracy.
We also imagine the daily prize of 'best blast', for the collaps of the largest wall, also known as 'loudest fart'. Finally, 'Berlin' (formerly 'Jericho') is the award for their victim.
'Sandbaggers' will receive anther kilo of sand (salt on Saturdays and lemons on Sundays) and 'Berliners' a couple of dozen black stones to build a new wall.
The 'best blaster' will be rewarded a farting cushion - "Poop", everytime you sit on it. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 02:00 Mon 01 March 2010 |
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| Three won three in Nottingham |
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 Alex Selby 4d from Cambridge won in Nottingham on sos ahead of William Brakes 2d (Milton Keynes) and Sandy Taylor 1d of Durham. With the bar at 2d, the latters three wins only yielded him bronze.
In the field of 42, only Benjamin Ellis 6k of Leicester and Patrick Ridley 10k of Chester also won all three games last Saturday.
Alex (right) is Schools Internet Server developer for the BGA. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 00:00 Mon 01 March 2010 |
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| Bernd bangs 31st Bonner |
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 Bernd Radmacher 5d from Meerbusch broke the backbones of all other contenders and mercilessly swept the 31st Bonner Turnier. Rudi Verhagen (Enschede) 5d only lost to Bernd. Matthias Terwey 4d (left at board one against Bernd) took bronze, while Torsten Knauf and Helmut Weber (both 3d) also won 4. Everyone with 4 wins got a book prize from sponsor Hebsacker Verlag - 32 in all.
Among 126 players only three won 5, youngsters Ngoc-Chi Banh 10k, Laura Bürger 25k and Erik Kröse 28k. The marathon 9x9 and 13x13 was dominated by Felix Haun, who played 67 games. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 21:45 Sun 28 February 2010 |
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| András and Gabor win in Budapest handicap |
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  The 4 Nyulashatop Hendikep in Budapest is - of course - the famous 4th Rabbity Six Handicap. András (left) Rosenthal 5k swept the A-group - where 26 took part - ahead of four with with 4: Bálint Szaras 1k, Péter Markó 3d (all three from Pagoda) and Péter Vernes 5k and Dominik Böviz 3k (both from MGE - the other strong club of Budapest).
Gabor Konyha 10k (right) won B - also undefeated, while Imre Tözer 13k (both Pagoda) and Csaba Katona shared second place with three wins and a draw each. Here 16 youngsters competed. See the Saturday 27 details in the tables. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 20:45 Sun 28 February 2010 |
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| Geert Groenen wins Dutch Title |
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Geert got black and kept Peter Brouwer under pressure right from the start. Soon it became an uphill battle for white, who resigned half way the middle game. This is the first Dutch Championship for Geert, who finished second several times.
Afterwards they analysed their first game of Saturday, which Geert had won, with Young-sun Yoon 5p for an audience of the talented students, who are invited to follow her Central Training, organized by the Dutch Go Association NGoB. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 20:00 Sun 28 February 2010 |
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| Final game for Dutch title on Sunday |
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| In the best-of-three play-off, black won both games on Saturday. The deciding game starts on Sunday February 28 at 11 in Amstelveen. You can follow the game with us. |
| placed by Peter Dijkema at 21:11 Sat 27 February 2010 |
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| Record audience expected at KGS |
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 Alexander Dinerchtein notified readers of his go-game.info newsletter of a special game between KILL teachers Younggil An 8P ('younggil') and Ilya Shiksin 7d ('roln111') at KGS, Saturday 28 at 4 pm Moscow time (GMT +3). Ilya takes two stones handicap. Alex hopes the audience will break a record and reach 1000+.
Viewers in Holland might prefer the play-off for the Dutch Title between Peter Brouwer 5d - former (2003) Danish Champion - and Geert Groenen 6d, who lost the play-off for the Championship last year. See the games at 10 and 14 h. at EuroGoTV or I/KGS.
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| placed by Peter Dijkema at 22:40 Fri 26 February 2010 |
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