The Spring 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.

The UK went into the last round of the Pandanet C-League with a slim chance of the top spot. This would occur if the team beat bottom of the league Georgia and leaders Ireland lost to Bulgaria. The UK team did their bit winning their match 3-1, with wins for Bruno, Alex and Jamie, whilst Scott lost. However Ireland managed a draw, after wins for Karl Irwin (played earlier) and John Courtney, but losses for Philippe Renaut and Matei Garcia.

These can be found at the link below, on page https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts which is in the members area of the website

• 2023 AGM Minutes
  

The UK team was matched against Slovenia in round six and won three games to one. Ireland beat Norway, with wins for Karl Irwin, Philippe Renaut, John Courtney and Matei Garcia, all by resignation. So Ireland stayed two points clear at the top of the C-League, with the UK still second and only one match remaining (against Georgia). [See here for League Page with game records.]

Due to the volume of entries and the logistics involved the UCL tournament on the 15th has imposed a limit of 80 players, and created a wait list for other entrants. If you are affected you should be contacted by the organiser.

If you have entered but now will not be there please inform the organiser as soon as possible, as that will make space for someone who would not otherwise be able to play.

For the first time in 65 years the British Congress was held in Northern Ireland, in the Maldron City Hotel in Belfast. 47 players made the journey, including nine from south of the border due to the efforts of the Irish Go Association. Thanks must go to the IGA, who provided the kit for the event, to Tiberiu Gociu, who did much of the local legwork before and during the event, and to Toby Manning and Colin Williams for running the two tournaments.

The entry form and full information for this years Candidates tournament, the first part of the 2023 British Championship, is now available through the events calendar.

The tournament will be held from April 29th to May 1st at The Open University Cricket Pavilion, Milton Keynes. Location

The second Go event in this year's Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix was the 9x9 event played online on OGS over a Sunday afternoon. There were 24 players from 35k to 6d with a large geographic spread. The Gold medal winner from Hong Kong was Yat Hin Yorkson Cheung. Silver went to Ho Yeung Woo and Bronze to Jonas Welticke. Junior Medal winners were Ryan Zhang, Andrew Volovich and Julia Volovich. Results

For the second time this year an event in Cambridge had to close its entry list some days before because of high demand to play. This year's Trigantius, played as last year at St Philip's Church Centre, had 79 players of whom 23 were juniors. Because of a problem with one of the top player's registrations there were 9 players above the 4d bar and it ended up with two of them unbeaten.