Francois van Niekerk

A South African Go player who started playing Go in early 2009 and currently stays in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Currently has a SAGA rank of 3k ( SAGA Ratings)

You can contact Francois at flash.slash@gmail.com or http://leafcloud.com

Online

Francois plays on various online Go servers, usually with the nick liquido or francoisvn. You are most likely to find him on KGS.

Achievement History

• 2009-05-21: Initialised at 14k
• 2009-08-06: Promoted to 13k
• 2009-11-07: Placed 9th in 4th Quarter Internet Tournament (1/1 wins) ( results)
• 2009-11-10: Placed tied 4th in 2009 Cape Town Blitz Tournament ( results)
• 2009-11-25: Promoted to 12k
• 2009-11-28: Placed 17th in the 2009 Joburg Open (2/4 wins) (no online results)
• 2009-12-08: Promoted to 11k
• 2010-01-28: Promoted to 10k
• 2010-02-06: Placed 9th in 1st Quarter Internet Tournament (3/3 wins) ( results)
• 2010-02-11: Promoted to 9k ( news post)
• 2010-04-17: Placed 11th in 2nd Quarter Internet Tournament (1/2 wins) ( results)
• 2010-04-17: Promoted to 8k
• 2010-05-15: Placed 8th in the 2010 Cape Town Open (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2010-06-05: Placed 8th in the 2010 SA Candidates Day 1 (0/3 wins) ( results)
• 2010-07-31: Placed 10th in 3rd Quarter Internet Tournament (2/3 wins) ( results)
• 2010-07-31: Promoted to 7k
• 2010-09-29: Promoted to 6k
• 2010-10-09: Placed 4th in the 2010 Stellenbosch Open (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2011-01-30: Placed tied 13th in 1st Quarter Internet Tournament (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2011-04-06: Promoted to 5k
• 2011-04-16: Placed 8th in 2nd Quarter Internet Tournament (0/3 wins) ( results)
• 2011-08-06: Placed tied 9th in 3rd Quarter Internet Tournament (1/2 wins) ( results)
• 2011-08-28: Placed 7th in the 2011 Stellenbosch Open (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2011-10-30: Placed tied 11th in 4th Quarter Internet Tournament (0/2 wins) ( results)
• 2012-01-29: Placed tied 10th in 1st Quarter Internet Tournament (2/3 wins) ( results)
• 2012-04-14: Placed tied 5th in 2nd Quarter Internet Tournament (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2012-04-14: Promoted to 4k
• 2012-05-19: Placed 9th in 2012 Cape Town Open (0/3 wins) ( results)
• 2012-10-21: Placed 7th in 2012 Stellenbosch Open (1/3 wins) ( results)
• 2012-10-27: Placed 9th in 4th Quarter Internet Tournament (3/3 wins) ( results)
• 2012-11-04: Placed 28th in 23rd International Amateur Go Championship (1/5 wins) ( results)
• 2013-02-17: Promoted to 3k

Subpages

• /BeginnerExerciseScript : Script to fetch beginner exercises