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We're pleased to be able to announce that the European Go Federation have awarded us the European Youth Go Championship for 2014.

We're currently proposing that it be held in conjunction with the British Open in March or April 2014 in the Butlins resort, Bognor Regis.

Final dates should be announced early in 2013.

We're setting up an organisation team to look after this project, so if you

This year's Shodan Challenge is now under way. There were some problems with people dropping out last year, so this year's set-up is more casual. There are no specific pairs of mentors/mentees; instead we have a teaching ladder system, whereby you can submit games for review, and review other people's games. There's also an option to arrange friendly matches and teaching games.

Jon is a retired IT professional living in East Sussex and learnt to play Go at school at the tender age of 14, becoming 1 dan and British Champion in 1965. He was Champion for 11 of the next 12 years, ending up by being promoted to 6 dan, but retiring to spend more time with his family (as they say) in 1977.

As a further service to our readers we've added some News feeds from around the World (English sources only) to the right hand side of our News page, These include the American Go Association, International Go Federation and EuroGoTV.

We're not responsible for their content or the frequency of updates however...

Many of you will be aware that BGA members are entitled to a 15% discount from Pentangle Game and Puzzles for Go books and equipment.

The latest British Go Journal is now available and should be with members already. Selected games, problems etc are available here.

The full PDF for issue 156 is also now available online.

Our introductory BGA flyer, often referred to as the Trifold leaflet, has now been updated with the current membership rates and membership secretary information. It can be seen on our Promotional Literature page.

A quick update to the state of affairs with the Shodan Challenge for this year:

Firstly, the league website is not finished yet unfortunately. This will be finished as soon as is possible for people to begin playing and submitting games.

Secondly, there have not been many entries (around a dozen).

34 players gathered in the Sports Pavilion at the OU, overlooking the cricket pitch, which saw a mixture of sunshine and showers during the day.

Overall winner was Andrew Simons (3d Cambridge), who beat Phil Beck in the final game.