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Jil Segerman, Newsletter Editor
The full set of recent news items, and further details of the items shown here, are on the BGA News Pages, and on News Headlines.
Hatfield, 6 June 2015
The UK team remained unbeaten at the end of the 2014-2015 season to end top of the European C-League.
This year's Challengers' League, played between the top 8 available players coming out of the Candidates' Tournament, took place at the Goddard Arms in Swindon on the second May Bank Holiday weekend. Andrew Kay (the reigning British Champion) won all of his games to lead the field, followed by Andrew Simons who won all of his games except for his game against Andrew Kay.
Bob Hitchens reports:
I heard at the weekend of the death of Neil Stein. Some players who were around in the 1960s will know Neil. He was a founder member of the BGA and helped create the BGA’s first bank balance of any size when he recognised the possibility of compensation from University College London for cancelling our booking for the first European Congress to be held in Britain. That opened up a lot of possibilities for the BGA.
Neil represented the BGA twice in international amateur tournaments in Tokyo (shown on the right of the picture in 1964) and attended several European Go Congresses.
The funeral was in Croydon on 21st May.
Jon Diamond reports, from the IGF meeting in Bangkok: "It is likely that China will host again the World Mind Sport Games, after very successful events in Beijing 2008 and Lille 2012, and this will most likely be held in Macau in 2016. "
BGA Council is likely to use the same selection procedure as before, so please note that if you intend to try to be selected you need to be on the published rating list at the selection date, which might be as early as late 2015. No other information is available currently.
We would like to bring to the attention of anyone involved in outreach events, the development of the BGA TakeAwayGoSet. The key idea is to get this set into the hands of potential players who would like to explore the game further, even if they don't have a Go tutor and may not see you again. Hence the additional information on the sheet itself to steer them in the right direction.
TakeAwayGoSet consists of a laminated A3 sheet printed both sides, together with inexpensive Chinese-style stones for a 13x13 game. On the sheet are:
For supplies, please contact the BGA bookseller
TakeAwayGoSet was used by Cheadle Hulme School (Stockport) when they invited other local schools for an "Introduction to Go" day.
It was also shown at FestivalAsia where team Britgo sold some two dozen sets. A report on this event is to feature in the forthcoming British Go Journal.
Full details are in our Events Calendar.
Later
* London Open: Monday 28th - Thursday 31st December 2015
* Isle of Skye Tournament: Saturday 5th – Sunday 6th March 2016 (provisional)