Fédération Suisse de Go

After 1997,2002,2004, Sébastien Koch (Ko Go Club) is for the fourth time Swiss Go Champion. Congrats!
Félicien Mazille (Ishi) and Sébastien Ott (Ko Go) had in fact the same number of points, but the cruel placement criteria (SOS) had to designate only one. Congrats also to them, they really made a great tournament.
The tournament took place in the magnificient village of Veyrier near Geneva. As usual in this cold spring 2013, the sun appeared quite rarely, but enough to take this photo at a few meters from the salle communale.

Thank you to Cho Seok Bin 8d that was present all the week-end and analysed a lot games, like the two winner's one on the picture. His strength is amazing and even the strongest swiss have many things to learn.
Finally thank you to the city of Veyrier, the Veyrier/Ko Go Club comitee (Jeremy, Sandra, Guillaume, Jean-Marc et Tetsuo) and all participants. Next year, we are impatient to attend a 2 days week-end in Ticino, a place many of us also love. There will probably be also 7 rounds but a little quicker.  Moreover the tournament will be earlier in order to avoid exams. 
Finally, on the international level, Ott will go to KPMC, Praz to WAGC.
ADW 
Photos, Results, EGD

In a small survey, i asked people whether they came to Active Go for eating or for playing, maybe they answered as for a joke, but indeed 80% answered for eating, and Wang Jie, the owner of the restaurant Lin Xiang, can be proud. This year we had no crispy Beef but many other nice things. Note that nobody drank any alcohol. Incidentally we had some go fights, and 3 players got 6 points on 7. Wolff lost against his teacher Inseong, Ott against Wolff, and Inseong against the morning alarm clock that failed to wake him up enough early for the first round. One can notice, that the handicap -1 give spice to many games but change only moderately the final result. A big thank you to Jeremy and Sandra, for whom it was the first and perfect organisation, after 10 years of Wolff, and 3 of Sébastien Koch. By the way Sébastien brought his lovely familly, including two future talented boys that may soon participate. Organised by Ko Go Club. Reported by Lovebach. Results, Photos

Despite we have started badly the European Championship on pandanet, losing against Finland and Belgium, we managed to win against the strong team of UK. John Walch beat Vanessa Wong 5d, Sebastien Koch lost against Bei Ge 5d, while Félicien Mazille and Sebastien Ott won versus two 3d, Jon Diamond and Des Cann. Congratulation for all, Swiss team is currently at the 6th position of the league B.
The Swiss team is better this year than ever with the possibility to have two 3d players and two 2d players on the 4 tables. It seems now likely that we can defend our place on the B league, but there is still a long way to achieve this.
The next match will take place on December the 4th versus Austria which is at the second position of the league B and it will be very tough to end with a deuce or a win but we will do our best.

Wie oft – jene zweiten Samstage im Novmeber – pilgerten viele der Kraftsportler mit ausgeprägtem Lobus frontalis nach Winterthur.
Das 13 Go-Turnier brachte Glück und Unglück. Glück für Jonas, der mit drei Siegen seinen dritten Dan bestätigte. Glück auch für die sechs Pokale, die alle einen stolzen Besitzer fanden. Glück für den jüngsten Teilnehmer, der mit seinen acht Jahren alle vier Partien bestritt. Glück für alle anderen Spieler, die auch trotz Niederlagen wieder einiges an Erfahrung reicher wurden. Glück für den Club Winterthur und die Turnierleitung, die lange nicht mit 23 Teilnehmern gerechnet hatten. Glück auch dank dem Hormon Serotonin, das durch den Konsum aufliegender Schokokugeln in schwarz und weiß die Stimmung einiger Spieler wieder aufhellen konnte.
Unglück blieb allein an der Zahl 13 haften.
Fotos, Resultate, EGD