On July 25th, the French team won the final of the Pandanet Go European Championship, just behind the Ukrainian team. The French team was composed by Fan Hui 2p, Thomas DeBarre 6d, Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia 6d and Tanguy le Calve 6d. Click here for more info.

Fan Hui (right) also prevailed at the recent European Go Congress main tournament, making this his third European championship. Click here for all the results, and here for Congress photos.

In the French Open Championship on August 23rd, at Claira, near Narbonne, France, Motoki Noguchi (Japan, 7d) won all his games; Benjamin Drean-Guenaizia(6d) was second, and Jérôme Salignon was third. Click here for complete results.– Laurent Coquelet, French Go Federation Secretary  and  the French Correspondent for the E-Journal