British Open Held In Lancaster

British Open
Lancaster University
Fri, 8 - Sun, 10 Apr 2022

The British Go Congress was held the weekend before Easter in the Welcome Centre on the campus of the University of Lancaster and the local club was thanked for their help in the organisation. The Congress was generously sponsored by SmartGo and the prizes included vouchers for SmartGo products.

The Friday evening British Lightning had groups of four players playing all-play-all leagues, the winners going on to the knock-out stage. As planned the final was played next day; it was won by Changhao Huang (5d Liverpool), with Zherui Xu (4d Cambridge) runner-up.

Last updated Fri Apr 22 2022.
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UK Lose to Finland

Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Pandanet
Sat, 9 - Tue, 12 Apr 2022

The seventh match of the season was against Finland. At their request Bruno played board one on the previous Saturday and the games on the Tuesday were at staggered times. In the end Bruno was the only winner and the loss put the team in bottom place of the B League, on tie-break behind South Africa.

Because Russia and Belarus have been removed from the leagues, there is only one relegation place now this season.

League Page with game records

Last updated Wed Apr 13 2022.
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Runyi Wu Wins Cheshire

Cheshire
Frodsham
Sat, 19 Mar 2022

After skipping two years, the Cheshire Go Tournament was back and held at the community centre in Frodsham as usual. Saturday 19th March proved that spring was approaching, as it was a beautiful, warm and sunny day.

Last updated Tue Mar 22 2022.
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Qualification Extended for British Championship 2022

As the Candidates event for this year will take place in early June the Council have decided to extend the period during which a player can achieve a qualifying grade. For this year only players are considered to have qualified if they have finished an EGF rated tournament with a GoR of 1900 or more in the period April 1st 2019 to 9th May 2022.

This means that both the British Open in Lancaster, and the Not the London Open will count as qualifying tournaments for the 2022 championship.

Last updated Thu Mar 17 2022.
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Chinese Students Take Top Places at Cambridge Trigantius

Trigantius
Cambridge
Sat, 12 Mar 2022

Cambridge’s Trigantius Tournament returned after a year’s Covid break to the excellent new venue of St Philip's Church in Mill Road; this was appreciated for closeness to local shops, cafés and station. Bristol’s Yaoling Yang took top spot from Cambridge University’s Zherui Xu, both on 3 wins out of 3, on SOS tie-break. Other Chinese players took the next five places. The bar was set at an unprecedented 5 dan and higher rated 4 dans were promoted to get eight players above the bar, but then unfortunately two were then drawn down in round one leading to the split tie.

Last updated Mon Mar 21 2022.
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BGA AGM 2022

The BGA AGM will be held online by ZOOM at 19:30 on Thursday 26th May 2022. An invite will be created and published a week or so before the meeting.

Any member’s resolutions are to be submitted to the BGA Secretary (secretary @ britgo.org) not later than Thursday 14th April 2022. Each such item will require the support of two BGA members.

The agenda will be published to members via the website no later than Thursday 28th April 2022.

Last updated Mon Mar 14 2022.
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UK Lose to Austria

Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Pandanet
Tue, 8 Mar 2022

The UK team lost to Austria 3-1 in the Pandanet Go European Team Championship on 8th March; congratulations to Jamie Taylor who provided our win. We are now 9th (out of 10) in league B and in the potential relegation zone: everything now probably depends on our last match against Croatia who are just above us in the Table unless we can beat one of the higher teams.

League Page with game records

Last updated Wed Mar 09 2022.
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EGF Suspends Russia

There was an emergency online meeting of EGF members on Thursday 3 March. Most European Countries were present.

The meeting agreed to suspend Russia and Belarus from the EGF, but not to expel them.

All EGF events currently scheduled for Russia and Belarus were to be re-allocated.

Russian and Belarusian players will be allowed to participate in EGF events under a neutral banner.

Last updated Mon Mar 14 2022.
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UK Youth Team Win to End Third

European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC)
KGS
Thu, 10 - Sun, 13 Feb 2022

The UK Youth Go Team won against Russia B team to finish third overall in the European Youth Go Team Championship. This is an excellent result especially since our team this year had so many new faces. Russia was again champion, with France (who had beaten UK in round one) in second.

Last updated Tue Mar 08 2022.
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BGA Congress Details Available

Details of the 2022 British Congress are now available on its web page Congress Info.

Entries are open.

Last updated Thu Feb 10 2022.
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