Championnat de Belgique 2004 / 2004 Belgium championship

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Mon Feb 09, 2004 09:30

All,

Next week the belgian championship starts again.
This site will be updated daily during the BK2004 since many people where interested in this.
Since a few years now I have been doing this with great succes.

Have fun and have a look at http://users.pandora.be/geert_valerie/

CU,

Geert Vercruysse

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Wed Feb 18, 2004 17:16

As you can see, there are only REMISES between the best ( LEMMENS, SCHALLEY, MICHIELS, DE MEULENAERE, VANDEBERG)in this CHAMPIONNAT DE BELGIQUE 2004.

almost same noting about DRAGUIGNAN and CANNES tournaments.
In DRAGUIGNAN we saw an only victory in best's case.
In CANNES only a victory too : K. THIJSSEN-J.M NDJOFANG 2-0

I said that because of that, there is a big debate about "DELFT proposal" in NETHERLANDS.

Without changing rules of our game, what can we do in order to reduce number of draws ?

Please HANCO tell us what majority of NETHERLANDS players think about it.

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 00:53

Games from 1st to 3rd rounds are available in the site.

Hanco Elenbaas · Post by **Hanco Elenbaas** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:38

Jacques PERMAL wrote:As you can see, there are only REMISES between the best ( LEMMENS, SCHALLEY, MICHIELS, DE MEULENAERE, VANDEBERG)in this CHAMPIONNAT DE BELGIQUE 2004.

almost same noting about DRAGUIGNAN and CANNES tournaments.
In DRAGUIGNAN we saw an only victory in best's case.
In CANNES only a victory too : K. THIJSSEN-J.M NDJOFANG 2-0

I said that because of that, there is a big debate about "DELFT proposal" in NETHERLANDS.

Without changing rules of our game, what can we do in order to reduce number of draws ?

Please HANCO tell us what majority of NETHERLANDS players think about it.

I don't know what the majority of draughtsplayers in The Netherlands is thinking about this Jacques. There is no research about it.
Dieter van Gortel from Geleen set up an inquiry amongst the top 199 from the KNDB-ratinglist.
The great majority of them was against the "Delft proposal".
See:
http://draughts.nl/delft/uitslag.php

Another thing is that all these Belgian topplayers of course will be slaughtered by real Worldtopplayers like Alexander Georgiev, Kees Thijssen, Alexander Schwarzman, Alexej Tsjizjov, Ton Sijbrands, Harm Wiersma, Gérard Jansen, Ron Heusdens, Rob Clerc and Guntis Valneris.
So, I think it's not a good attitude that everytime when in some tournament there are a lot of draws between the top of that tournament, one starts to cry and weep that it is so difficult to win these days!

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Thu Feb 19, 2004 21:56

It is right that all players are more and more prepared for competitions.

We usually train with high level software and we can analyse games of

our opponents thanks to INTERNET.

Each knows other !!

Last minute : R. SCHALLEY decided I was wrong : he won M. DE

MEULENAERE !!! [img]images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] and took the lead.

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Fri Feb 20, 2004 23:50

Today B. LEMMENS won V. HERMANS. He could take the lead tomorrow.

Be cautious !!!

Hanco Elenbaas · Post by **Hanco Elenbaas** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 08:27

Hello Jacques,
My favourite is Ronald Schalley.
In the Worldchampionship in Moscow 2001 Ronald finished last with 4 points out of 16 games, he lost 12 times, but he made draws with Guetmanski, Gantwarg, Kouogueu and Erdenebileg.
Another favourite is Marc de Meulenaere, but he disappointed me very much.

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Sat Feb 21, 2004 09:10

Hello Hanco,

Have you seen the combination of RONALD SCHALLEY against PHILIPPE LERUTH (7th round) ? Beautiful to be viewed by beginners who want to perform themselves !!

I met MARC DE MEULENAERE in CANNES last year. He told me that there are not a lot of competitions in his country.
Others players from BELGIUM said same thing when I saw them in LILLE (Near BELGIUM) during the french championship. And they said that some top players don't like to lose !!!!

I hope that BERNARD LEMMENS will take the lead definitively !!

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 01:58

BERNARD LEMMENS won his match while RONALD SCHALLEY was free !!

B. LEMMENS has now a lot of chance to be the next champion !!!

Tomorrow :

Y. VANDEBERG - B. LEMMENS

R. SCHALLEY - S. MICHIELS

Two big contests !!!!

Jacques PERMAL · Post by **Jacques PERMAL** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 00:07

Last round : RONALD SCHALLEY won S. MICHIELS and Y. VANDEBERG drew BERNARD LEMMENS.

A play-off is necessary to determine the winner of 2004 championship : BERNARD LEMMENS or RONALD SCHALLEY ?