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Alvina Kwok regained the British Youth Go Champion title at the British Youth Go Championship. Despite the previous winner Ryan Zhang being away at the KPMC in Korea, she still had to play well, as Hayes Lee, a player only recently arrived in the country, was playing well to only lose to Alvina and claim an open under-14 title.

In all 36 plays from 3d to 36k took part at the new venue of Lady Bay Church in Nottigham. Prizes were awarded to all on 3 or 4 wins, those with fighting spirit (no wins) and the section winners (and runners up):

U18: Alvina Kwok
U16: Daniel Yang (Andrew Volovich)
U14: Audrey…

Having recently been togther at the youth team tournament in China (with Lukasz Kudla), Toby Manning and Ryan Zhang met up again in Korea for the Korea Prime Minister Cup (KPMC). The event was held in mountainous Taebaek and guest of honour was Lee Sedol 9p.

For the first time ever the KPMC had an event for players aged under 16, hence why Ryan was present. A Pair Go event was held with a senior partnering with a junior to celebrate this.

In the youth event, Ryan won three games out of six to end 19th out of 28. He lost to Thailand and Romania, beat Mongolia, Spain and Denmark and finally lost to Canada. Tsai Ming Ruel of Chinese Taipei was the winner, ahead of Hong Kong and China. Top Europeans were Stjepan Medak (…

We took part in the 3rd Quzhou Lanke Youth International Child Friendly Amateur Weiqi Tournament. This is for teams of 3; we only had 2 players, Ryan Zhang 3d and Lukasz Kudla 5k who were able (and qualified) to play, so we recruited a strong Romanian youth, Dragos Boldeanu to make up the team entitled "UK International".

The 20 teams played a 7-round unseeded Swiss. Consequentially there were many mismatched games.

The team ended up with 3/7, having defeated Australia, Chile and “Quzhou International” (a team of 5-year old girls from the International Go School in Quzhou), and…

In the first game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team had to play newly demoted Sweden. The match ended a draw which is a good result against a strong country. This placed the team sixth, behind Sweden and the four winning teams of that round: South Africa, Ireland, Belgium and Croatia. The next match is on 18th November against Netherlands.

League Page with game records

Damon Woo wrote about his game with against Charlie Åkerblom: The early lead from the beginning he developed was kept throughout the game until the end. He won by 5.5.

Bruno Poltronieri wrote: On board 2, I had a straightforward game to ease me into the season. My opponent Martin Li played…

Durham Go Club was excited to host the 2025 European Student Go Championship. The weekend started with cultural events, beginning with a tour of Durham's UNESCO World Heritage Site - including the 900 year old Cathedral and Castle. Guests then enjoyed an evening in a typical British pub, with the opportunity to play Go and meet some of the Durham student players.

The Championship was a 5 round Class A McMahon tournament based in some Durham University buildings adjacent to the fascinating Oriental Museum, which includes in its collection several ancient Go related artefacts. We were particularly delighted that Lukáš Podpěra (7d) from Prague in the Czech Republic was able to join us and offer reviews and teaching across the…