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After the Coventry and Bracknell events, Tony Atkins was leading, but then the long events started with the Scottish Open scoring 6, Durham 5 and Barmouth 5 for defending champion Yohei Negi. Matthew Macfadyen won Swindon and Shrewsbury to move into second.

After Nottingham:

1. Matthew Macfadyen 29
2. Yohei Negi 25
3. Sandy Taylor 19
4. Toby Manning, Gerry Mills 15.5
5. Alex Kent 14
6. David Lee 13
7. Tony Atkins 12
8. Bob Bagot, Matthew Crosby, Alan Thornton 11

The BBC2 Newsnight programme on 18th February 2010 used a Go board provided through an enquiry on the Gotalk discussion group as a backdrop to a piece on US-China relations. Reporter Robert Peston (seen below) played stones on the board, which had some illegal positions, as an animation technique and used the game, calling it Wei Qi, as a metaphor for some aspects of the USA-China relationship.

After the Coventry and Bracknell events, Tony Atkins was leading, but then the long events started with the Scottish Open scoring 6, Durham 5 and Barmouth 5 for defending champion Yohei Negi. Matthew Macfadyen won Swindon and Shrewsbury to move into second. Matthew then won the Wessex and MK to go top, but Yohei evened the score at the Three Peaks. After Cheshire:

1. Matthew Macfadyen 27
2. Yohei Negi 25
3. Sandy Taylor 17
4. Gerry Mills 15.5
5. Toby Manning 14.5
6. Alex Kent, David Lee 13

The 2009 Youth Grand Prix has now finished, with Matthew Hathrell coming first, Roella Smith second, and Michael Webster third. Well done to those three, and to everyone else who earned points. Full standings for the year can be seen here.

Updated

T Mark Hall will be the UK representative this year.