UK Beat Norway

Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Pandanet
Tue, 24 Oct 2023

The first match in the new season of the C-League was against Norway. Bruno, Scott and Tim all won, but Jon Diamond was a no-show meaning the team won 3-1. Slovakia beat Slovenia and South Africa beat Spain, both 3-1, but our penalty point for the no-show pushed us down to third. Kyrgyzstan and Denmark drew their match.

League Page with game records

Last updated Wed Oct 25 2023.
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Robot Introduced at Sheffield Tournament

Sheffield
Sun, 1 Oct 2023

The Sheffield Tournament had 38 entrants, reports organiser David Wildgoose. The bar was set at 1k providing six players above the bar and was eventually won by Peikai Xue (4d UCL). Five players gained prizes for winning all three of their games. Other than Peikai they were all from Cheadle Hulme: Megan Upton (14k), James Zhao (16k), Claude Robinson (27k) and Pip Hawkes (34k). Results

Last updated Thu Oct 05 2023.
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BGA Public Liability Insurance - Possible Issue

Members should be aware that a question has arisen as to whether the BGA’s Public Liability Insurance does in fact cover them. We are working as a matter of urgency to clarify the situation, but until we have a definite solution members should act on the side of safety and consider that they do not have Public Liability Insurance for themselves or their events from the BGA.

Last updated Tue Sep 12 2023.
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"Knives Out" at Edinburgh Open Tournament

Edinburgh Open
Sat, 9 Sep 2023

The Edinburgh Open was again held at the "St Columba's by the Castle" Episcopal Church Hall. This year, nice weather meant they could use the garden of the church hall as a review space. Overall turnout was up on last year with 29 players and pleasingly included three first-time tournament players.

The bar was set at 2k, which made for a very competitive field of seven players who could win the competition. Local player Grzegorz Kudla (2k) won the tournament with three wins from three games, following a tense final game with Ai Guan (Birmingham 1k).

Last updated Wed Sep 27 2023.
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Go at 27th Mind Sports Olympiad

MSO
Sun, 27 - Mon, 28 Aug 2023

The 27th Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) took place in its regular venue of the JW3 centre in London. As usual a large number of games fans from around the world, including this time a large team of Koreans, assembled to play a long and varied list of games. Some Go players competed in several games: Ai Guan, Paul Smith and Caleb Monk; Natasha Regan was the Women's Pentamind champion. Details of all MSO results are on the MSO Database.

Last updated Wed Sep 27 2023.
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Sixth Youth Camp Successful

Wed, 9 - Sat, 12 Aug 2023
Last updated Sun Aug 27 2023.
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British Championship on KGS this Weekend

This weekend on 26th / 27th and if needed 28th at the London Go Centre Bruno Poltronieri and Ho Yeung Woo will play the best of three 2023 British Championship title match.

Play will start at 12:00 each day and go through until the end of the game. The London Go Centre will be doing a live stream on their YouTube channel. Commentary will be provided on KGS (probably the English Room) by Matthew Macfadyen. Please take the time to drop in online and have a look at how it is going.

Last updated Sat Aug 26 2023.
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BGJ 204 Now Available in Members' Area

The Summer 2023 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read in the Members' Area, with printed copies being sent out to those that receive them.

Last updated Thu Aug 17 2023.
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"New" Venue Popular for Welsh Open

Welsh Open
Barmouth
Sat, 24 - Sun, 25 Jun 2023

On 24-25 June, the switch back to Barmouth's Dragon Theatre proved popular with the 30 attendees, who took advantage of a rare whole-weekend tournament on the BGA calendar. The theatre was the tournament's very first venue in the seaside town, back in 1993. It felt good for the event to be supporting a fine, renovated community amenity, for this 29th edition.

The weather was mixed, but there were chances to climb the cliffs for views of the town, its wide bay and the start of Snowdonia national park's scenic mountainous region.

Last updated Wed Jul 12 2023.
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Chenghang Liu Wins First UK Tournament

Cheshire
Frodsham
Sat, 1 Jul 2023

The Cheshire, which had been postponed from March because of a train strike, took place on Saturday 1st July at Frodsham Community Centre. North-west clubs were well represented: Liverpool club provided five of the 32 players, Manchester eight players, Lancaster four players and Chester four players.

Last updated Tue Nov 21 2023.
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