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I'm very pleased to announce that Damen (Ho-Yeung Woo) has been co-opted onto the Board of Directors of the BGA. He will have responsibility for player development, a task he has already been sharing with Sam Bithell.

This brings the Board appointments up to eight again, and continues a general trend where the average age of the Directors is decreasing, surely a good sign for the future of Go in the UK.

The British Pair Go Championship moved to Nottingham for the first time this year, with the tournament being sponsored by Threedy Printers Limited.

In another first we saw new first-time champions of Ai Guan and Damen Woo, with Alison and Simon Bexfield taking second place and Lauren Hindmarch and Bjorn Eurenius taking third spot.

In the handicap section, we had three pairs on 3 wins. The overall title of handicap champions went to Helen Harvey and Soorena Zarafshani, with Olivia Jennison and Claude Robinson, and Renee Wong and Ryan Wong sharing second place.

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The UK youth team has won the European Youth Team Competition 2025 having won all four preliminary rounds, their semi-final against Romania and this weekend the final against Germany.

In the final, the teams were fairly evenly matched with the UK having a very slight edge on paper. Ryan played first on board 1, losing to the German 6 dan. Sung Hee Lim took a good win on board 4 against an opponent one grade weaker on paper. With the UK expected to win on board 5 where Lukasz outgraded his opponent (which he duly did), this left the UK needing to win one of two evenly matched boards. Alvina played well to take a win on board 2, whilst Daniel lost an exciting game on board 3 with groups on both sides dying, leaving the UK the…

We now have a number of people assigned to represent us in various international events. For your information here is a current update, not including the Pandanet tournament team members.

45th World Amateur Go Championship – May 16th – 21st, Vancouver.

Alistair Wall is our player here. Biographies of who he is up against can be seen at https://leago.gg/event/wagc2025/player-bios

40th World Youth Go Championship – August 21st to 29th, Selangor, Malaysia

Following his excellent results at the European Youth Championship Lukasz Kudla has qualified to represent us at this event.

20th Korea Prime Ministers Cup – Nov 7th – 14th, Taebaek City

Toby Manning is our adult…

A reminder that the 2025 BGA AGM will be next week on Thursday 22nd at 20:00, held by ZOOM video-conference.

The latest agenda and supporting documents can be found as usual on https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts , a link for the ZOOM session will appear on that page early next week.

A number of important amendments to the motions have been proposed by members, and these have now been included on the agenda. Several short papers have been submitted in support of the amendments, and these too can be found on https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts

We are also privileged this year to have two excellent…