Promoting Go in the UK and beyond

The Open University and Milton Keynes Go Club is about having fun while playing go. To this end we meet twice every Monday: from 12:30 in the Cellar Bar on the OU campus, and from 6:30pm in the Wetherspoons pub, 201 Midsummer Boulevard, Central Milton Keynes (map). We are affiliated to the OU club and the British Go Association.

Where we meet

These maps of the OU campus should let you find the Cellar Bar, where we meet from 12:30 on Monday Lunchtimes. It is in the Cellars of Walton Hall, at the end of Walton Drive.

This map of central Milton Keynes may help you to locate the Wetherspoons pub in Central Milton Keynes where we gather from 6:30pm on Monday evenings. The pub is the rightmost brown rectangle, just under Bouverie Square. If you walk up Midsummer Boulevard starting at the station, it is on your left after a few hundred metres. As you go in the door to the pub, look for us on the left, in the no smoking section. Do not be confused by the fact that there is another Wetherspoons owned pub (The Secklow Hundred) also on Midsummer boulevard.

Other activites

Lots of club members go to lots of go tournaments. This means that we can share the driving and then go out for a meal afterwards as a group. Our results in tournaments range from brilliant to disastrous.

Once a year we run our own tournament in Milton Keynes. You can see the results of the 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, more ..., tournaments by following the appropriate links. In 2001 we introduced an innovation as a side event: the Milton Keynes go board.

We like to introduce new people to the game. Go is quite an easy game to learn, it is only winning that is difficult. We can teach you to play in a lunchtime or evening.

Contact us

To find out more just turn up to one of our meetings or contact the club secretary Clari Hunt. Alternatively, you can add yourself to our email contact list which is run for us on the OU’s list system. You need to enter your email address, then find the list called ‘club-go-list’.

Comments on this page to Tim Hunt.