Promoting Go in the UK and beyond

Each year, at the British Go Congress, points are awarded to the eight highest-placed British players (by nationality or residence). The winner receives 8 points, second 7 points, and so on down to 1 point for eighth. Points are shared between players who finish on the same McMahon score, with any fraction rounded to the nearest half integer (quarters rounded up).

When the BGA is asked to nominate a representative for an International Amateur Baduk Championship, we select the player with the most points on this list. Their accumulated points will then be reset to zero.

If two or more players are tied on the same number of points, the tie-break is: first, priority is given to players who have been to the International Amateur Baduk Championship less recently; second, who played in a British Congress more recently; third, who finished more highly placed in that congress; fourth, nigiri.

A World Amateur Baduk Championship took place in 2003, a year in which there was not a World Amateur Go Championship. Matthew Macfadyen was selected to take part in that event using the World Amateur Go Championship points system.

This new system was only introduced in 2004, but the system was seeded with the results of the British Championship from 1998 onwards.

Note that the International Amateur Baduk Championship may have additional rules, such as nationality, that mean that some of the people on the list below are not eligible to represent Britain.

Current points

This table gives the points earned each year, and the current accumulated points. A list of past representatives is below.

Figures displayed like this show the player who travelled to Korea to represent Britain that year, and had their points reset to 0.

In 2007 the player was selected as the winner of the Korean Ambassador's Cup (Bei Ge) and points were not awarded at the British.

Past Representatives