March 2011

When your main time flag falls you are in overtime, and you carry out the following procedure for Canadian Overtime:

  1. Ask your opponent to stop the clock and to reset yours to 5 minutes to 6 o'clock.

  2. Without delay, count the 20 overtime stones from your bowl.

  3. Cover your bowl with the lid. (Prisoners should be transferred to another lid).

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Last updated Fri Mar 25 2011. If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.

This Book describes many of the detailed procedures involved in running the British Championship, starting from the Candidates' Tournament, including the Challengers' League and the Title Match.





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We've implemented a new way of updating our clubs list and therefore the map, allowing club secretaries to be in control of their own details and update them as soon as they change.

This means that the list and map are going to be more up to date and more reliable than ever before.

As a by-product of this change there have been a significant number of corrections to the details about many cl





Last updated Thu Mar 24 2011. If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.
Tournament Name: 
Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Venue: 
Pandanet
Tournament Date: 
23 March 2011

Wins on boards 2 and 4 for the UK ensured the honours were split evenly between the UK and Austria.

Captain Will Brooks finally broke his duck, and Jon Diamond did his duty as president, while misfortune befell Matthew Macfadyen and Andrew Simons.

The season is nearing its end with only 2 more matches to be played (vs. Slovenia and Spain).





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Clubs List Clubs List by Region

Flags for most clubs are accurate to within metres. For more details, click on a flag or look up in the full list. A few clubs meet inside premises which are not accessible to the public - these are not shown. School and youth clubs are listed separately.
Note: Clubs with more than one venue or meeting day have more than one flag.
If there isn't a club in an area please email the Membership Secretary for a contact.

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Corrections or additions should be sent to the webmaster, web-master at britgo.org, who will pass them on as necessary.

If your flag is wrongly positioned, zoom in and double click to centre the map on the right location, and then tell us the replacement latitude/longitude figures show at the bottom.

If you've formed a new club please also contact our Clubs Development officer or the Chairman of the Clubs and Membership Committee





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Tournament Name: 
British Youth Go Championship
Venue: 
Bloxham School
Tournament Date: 
20 March 2011

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p> The 2011 Youth Championships had 24 competitors aged from 7 to 18, with strengths from 2 dan to 30 kyu. The new library block at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire served as a great venue. Mazhar Warraich from Aston won the youth championship with 4 straight wins including beating Tian-Ren Chen from Loughborough.





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Tournament Name: 
British Youth Go Championship
Tournament Date: 
20 March 2011

The 2011 Youth Championships had 24 competitors aged from 7 to 18, with strengths from 2 dan to 30 kyu. The new library block at Bloxham School served as a great venue.





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A week has passed since the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami struck, which has been a disaster of unprecedented proportions for Japan.

The BGA is not organising a specific fund for people to donate to the relief operations. However, we are pleased to direct you to the one organised by the Japanese Ambassador.





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Some include card Go sets, for instance "The Book of Go" and "Learn to Play Go Volume 1", and some were made for issue in Go sets, such as the Carlton Go Pack which contained Matthew Macfadyen's book.





Last updated Sat Apr 02 2011. If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.
Tournament Name: 
Cambridge Trigantius
Venue: 
Cambridge
Tournament Date: 
12 March 2011

David Ward (3 dan) won his local tournament, the Cambridge Trigantius, without having to share the title as he did in 2000. 36 players took part at St Columba's Church in the centre of the city. Other players winning all three games were Michael Charles (1kyu St Albans), Brook Roberts (4kyu Cambridge) and Jan Poslusny (6kyu Prague).





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