Issue 9. March 1996
Tournament News
Furze Platt 20/01/96
80 players attended the tournament held at Hitachi Europe's
headquarters in Maidenhead. Winner was Harold Lee. Thanks to the
sponsor, all got prizes, but those with 3/3 were: Simon Goss (1d
Bracknell), Steve Bailey (2k W. Surrey), Bill Streeten (3k CLGC),
Wayne Walters (4k Wanstead), Joe Beaton (6k York), Ged Hoile (8k
High Wycombe), Tom Summerscales (12k Culcheth), Ged Farrimond (15k
Epsom Downs), Tom Webber (23k Culcheth), Sam Hughes (25k
Brakenhale), Oliver Edwards (35k High Wycombe). Furze Platt won
the team prize. 9x9 prize winners were David Knight (Epsom Downs),
David Bennett (Culcheth), Sam Hughes and Ged Farrimond.
Schools/Youth 21/01/96
Brakenhale hosted this again this year and won the Castledine
Trophy and the lightning competition unchallenged. Youth champion
was local 1kyu David King. Age group winners/runners-up were: U18
David King/-; U16 Anna Griffiths/Tom Summerscales; U14 Emma
Marchant/Jamie Harrod; U12 Thomas Blockley/Sam Hughes; U10 Sophia
Ellul. Handicap winners were Francis Weaver & Neil Ings (5/6) and
Graham and Alistair Brooks (4/6). 13x13 prizes went to David King
and Daniel Dowling for 4/4 and David Bennett for 7/9.
Wanstead 03/02/96
This did not clash with the go skiing trip this year so Alison
Jones was able to organise the 66 players. Winner was Matthew
Macfadyen (6d Leamington). Others on 4/4 were Francis Weaver (13k
Brakenhale) and Andrea Smith (23k Cambridge). Those winning 3
were: Alistair Wall (4d Wanstead), T.Mark Hall (4d London), Paul
Smith (2d Cambridge), Simon Goss (1d Bracknell), Helen Harvey
(1kyu Chester), Baron Allday (1k W Wales), Dave Artus (1k CLGC),
Tony Warburton (1k Cambridge), Steve Bailey (2k W Surrey), France
Ellul (3k High Wycombe), Richard Mullens (6k Stevenage), Thomas
Wolf (8k CLGC), Emma Marchant (11k Brakenhale), J.P. Schille (15k
Chester), Daniel Dowling (16k Brakenhale), Sam Hughes (21k
Brakenhale). Two Brakenhale teams shared the team prize. Sam
Hughes won the 13x13 and the best results in the lunch time youth
exam were Sam Hughes, Francis Weaver and Carl Bate.
Oxford 18/02/96
Freud's Cafe, a former Victorian classical church, provided a
unique venue for the Oxford Tournament; entry included five pounds
of food vouchers. Also unusual was the paired entry of Matthew
Macfadyen and Kirsty Healey and the use of Handtalk program to
make an even number. Also unusual was the jigo in the final round
between the top players Piers Shepperson (5d Slough) and Edmund
Shaw (5d Reading); the organisers said this was not good enough
for either of them to win and awarded the first prize to Andrew
Jones (3d Wanstead) who started below the McMahon bar. The
organiser later apologised for his slight error. The best of the
98 players were: Alan Thornton (2d Stevenage), Henny Groop-Lipman
(1d Reading), qualifier Baron Allday (1k W Wales), Nick Allday (4k
Oxford), Richard Mullens (6k Stevenage), Paul Rogers (8k CLGC),
Francis Weaver (11k Brakenhale), Simon Brooks (12k Swindon),
Andrea Smith (20k Cambridge), Richard Trefler (25k Oxford) and
Henry Braun (25k Oxford). Paul Margetts and James Harrod won
prizes for 13x13. All those on zero could claim a booby prize if
they could understand the German announcer.
Cambridge 24/02/96
Two events were held on the same day at the University Centre. The
first was a beginners event with 16 players. David Vandy won 6/6,
Patrick Ribbands 5/6, Frank Visser and David Good 4/6, but all
these were deemed too old to win prizes so these went to Jonathan
Artus 4/6, Loiuse Good and Adam Eckersley-Waites 3/6, Carl Bate
and Tom Eckersley-Waites 2/6. In the main event 64 players
competed for the Trigantius title. Cambridge Club cleaned up the
prizes. The Cambridge Untouchables won the team prize; John
Rickard (4d) won the title; Mark Dalgano (7k), Matthew Woodcraft
(10k), Andrea Smith (18k), Sean McPhail (20k) and Ralph Beckett
(20k) all won prizes. They did allow Simon Goss (1d Bracknell),
Alan Williamson (4k Burgess Hill) and Richard Mullens (5k
Stevenage) to win a prize and awarded the kyu player prize to Gary
Quinn (1k Teesside). 13x13 winner was Nick Wedd (1k Oxford) with 4
wins.
News
Go Tuition
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National Trainer Matthew Macfadyen is
running private seminars at weekends in Leamington during 1996,
cost 40 pounds/session. Shutai Zhang is running
afternoon sessions in London for about 10 pounds. The European Go
Centre initiated BGA Training will be starting shortly.
Kisei Match Amsterdam
Cho Chikkun is rechallenging his vanquisher of the 1995 Kisei,
Kobayashi Satoru. Game 1 was played in the Hotel Okura in
Amsterdam in January with a video link to the European Go Centre
in Amstelveen. With the help of professionals, including Iwamoto,
the game could be analysed through a discussion tournament and
lectures. The title game was played very slowly - several
hour-long thinks - and Cho resigned on move 85 shortly before
entering overtime on day two. He was not obviously losing; perhaps
he had the worse jet-lag.
Promotions
The BGA has promoted the following: 1dan Tony Putman, Paul
Barnard, Paul Donnelly, Paul Hankin; 2dan Paul Smith; 7dan Shutai
Zhang (following official European recognition of this grade).
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