With 22 dan players lined up on their team, it came as no surprise that the Strasbourg Go Club kept the French Champion 
title last Sunday, September 25 at the Master Lim Cup. Motoki Noguchi 6d, Thomas Debarre 6d, Frédéric Donzet 5d and Antoine Fenech 5d led Strasbourg and only Nantes and Toulouse managed to score a win with the defeat of Donzet against Desvaux and Noguchi against Fan (see the game record below).
The ninth edition of the Master Lim Cup was considered a success in all respects, with no less than 14 teams present in Piriac-sur-Mer, and the clubs sending their best players to fight under the bright sun, including François Mizessyn, Alain Kerbrat, Bernard Helmstetter, Toru Imamura-
Cornuejols and Tanguy Le Calvé.
Strasbourg, Grenoble, Toulouse, Dijon and Nantes have already qualified for the 2012 edition of the Cup; the other clubs will have to participate in the regional qualifications first.
– report/photo by Alain Cano, French Correspondent for the E-Journal
