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Although held at its usual venue of Frodsham Community Centre, this year's Cheshire had new organisers and a new feature. Ai Guan and Florian Pein introduced the new Cheshire Chase, a self-paired three-round tournament played between rounds of the Open. 13 of the 32 players played at least one Chase game and the Chase winner was Caleb Fai (8k), the only player to play and win all three. His brother Joshua (6k) and Leo Zhang (15k) from Cheadle Hulme School won both the games they played. Adding both events together gave an Endurance ranking, again won by Caleb.

In the main event there were sadly few strong players, but a goodly 11 from Cheadle Hulme School. The unbeaten Open winner was Yifan Bao (5d), with Zhan Shin (3d) from…

In the sixth game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team played top team Croatian. All games ended in resignations. Two games were played early, with the UK equal going into the Tuesday night after Jun Sun won on board one. Unfortunately he was the only winner meaning the match was lost 1-3. The Netherlands defeated Austria to stay second, one point behind Croatia. The UK slipped to fourth on tie-break behind Sweden who tied with Switzerland. The next match is on 17th March with UK against Switzerland.

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Jun Su wrote: I played black against Stejpan Medak 5d on the Sunday before. I didn’t remember well the joseki at lower-left corner and played…

In the fifth game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team played Belgium. Three games were played at the weekend, with the UK ahead going into the Tuesday night. Bruno managed to win on time to take the match. Croatia won again, beating Sweden, to remain top. The Netherlands defeated Ireland, four games to nil, moving to second place, with the UK in a creditable third place. The next match is on 24th February with UK against Croatia.

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Michael Cheung beat Lucas Neirynck (6d) by resignation when a large group in the middle ran out of liberties and died.

Bruno Poltronieri beat Lucman Bounoider (3d) on time: He wrote: I got a bit lucky…

In the fourth game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team played Austria. One game was played at the weekend and Michael's great win meant the team only had to win two games on the night. The team did not drop a single game to win the match four games to nil. This win moved the team up to fourth place on five points. Croatia became remained top on seven points, ahead of Sweden and Netherlands on six. Ireland lost to Switzerland (with just a win for Gavin Rooney) to move down to fifth. The next match is on 3rd February with UK against Belgium.

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Michael Cheung wrote: I played black against Viktor Lin 6D on Saturday. I started with a cosmic style…

One of the premier North-West annual Go tournaments was kindly hosted again by the prestigious Cheadle Hulme School (CHS). Welcoming the competitors was CHS teacher Dave Barnett (whose Go-playing son is now at Cambridge), Helen Harvey (main tournament) and Martin Harvey (13x13).

It was pleasing to have 51 players (including 14 at their first tournament). As well as the large groups from CHS and from Manchester, there was a team from a new local school club (Beech Hall) run by the CHS founder Zaheer Ahmed. Many players also travelled from distant clubs, including University College London (UCL), Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol and Lincoln.

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