Non-current Tournaments: All Winners

Title Description Past Winners and Results
Maidenhead-Hitachi

A 3-round McMahon tournament sponsored by and held at Hitachi Europe's headquarters. Time limit 60 minutes with increasing overtime (10/5, 20/5 etc) until 2019. Fischer time in 2020.

Free buffet lunch available. Registration by 9:45. Prize giving by 19:00.

It was called the Furze Platt Tournament until 2010.

2020 was the last as Hitachi moved away.

Manchester Summer

3-round McMahon tournament. 40 minutes time limit, then accelerating overtime of 20 stones in 5 minutes, increasing by 20 stones each period (so, 20 in 5 mins, then 40, 60, 80 and so on).
Komi is 7 stones, so drawn games are allowed. Prizes for 2.5 or 3 wins. Inaugural event in 2018. Not held in 2019/2020.

It's called 'Manchester Summer' as it's deliberately held in the Summer Term,
so that N-W students have a local tournament that they can attend, that term.

Free coffee, tea and biscuits.
Bringing a packed lunch would be best. There are local shops, but the nominal lunch-period is just 40 minutes (much less if 2 long-thinkers play each other).

Costs: Note that "BGA member" here means "member of one's national Go association"
£8 BGA member & no concession
£5 BGA member with concession
£11 non-member
£8 non-member with concession
£3 non-member & playing their first-ever EGD tournament
Free: BGA member & playing their first-ever EGD tournament

Registration: 9:30 - 10:00. Prizegiving 4:30.
Provisional Timings:
Round 1 ... 10:30
Lunch ... 12:00
Round 2 ... 12:40
Round 3 ... 14:40
Prizes at ... 16:30
Vacate ... 16:55

  • 2018 Alistair Wall
Milton Keynes

Originally held in a hall in Wolverton, the Milton Keynes Tournament has made its home at the Open University. Various different buildings on the campus have been used. It is a 3 round McMahon.

Registration by 10:15. Prize-giving 18:30

MSO 9x9 Junior or Beginners

An event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

  • 2006 Nicholas Calderwood
  • 2001 Bruce Birchall
  • 1999 Frank Prager
  • 1998 Ezra Luttoni
MSO Lightning

An event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

MSO Novices 13x13

An event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

  • 2000 Tom Cooper
MSO Pair Go

An Pair Go (mixed-doubles) event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

  • 2003 Natasha Regan & Tim Hunt
  • 2001 Sylvia Kalisch & Seong-June Kim
  • 2000 Guo Juan & Di Jingyu
MSO Rapid

An rapid-play event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

MSO Weekend

An event at the Mind Sports Olympiad.

MSO Youth

An event at the Mind Sports Olympiad. The 2002 event was part of the Cambidge MSO.

  • 2002 William Brooks @ Cambridge
  • 2001 Shawn Hearn
  • 2000 Liao Xingwen
National Knock-Out

A country-wide knockout played over most of the year.

  • 1979 Matthew Macfadyen
  • 1978 Matthew Macfadyen
  • 1977 Matthew Macfadyen
  • 1976 Ron Moss
New Malden

Tournament held by the Korean community in New Malden, Surrey.

Nippon Club Cup

Formerly awarded to the Club team with the best percentage in the British Open at the British Go Congress.

  • 2013 Epsom
  • 2012 London
  • 2011 Durham
  • 2010 Edinburgh
  • 2009 Cambridge
  • 2008 Brighton
  • 2007 Sheffield
  • 2006 Durham
  • 2005 Farnborough Village (Kent)
  • 2004 Central London
  • 2001 - 2003 Wanstead
  • 2000 Berks Youth Bracknell
  • 1999 Cambridge
  • 1998 Leamington Spa
  • 1997 Hursley
  • 1996 Reading
  • 1995 Brakenhale
  • 1994 Wanstead
  • 1993 Norwich
  • 1992 Furze Platt Maidenhead
  • 1991 Melior Go Club
  • 1990 The Brakenhale School
  • 1989 Nottingham
  • 1988 Furze Platt School
  • 1986, 1987 Bristol
North East

A rapid-play event held in Darlington.

  • 1995 Simon Shiu
North London

Event organised by Melior/North London Go Clubs.

Norwich

Tournament played in Norwich.

Online League (Individual)

BGA online league for individuals.

Other Leagues

Other regional leagues have been held, mostly in the 1970s and early 1980s, but reporting of results was patchy.

In addition the Jubilee Challenge Trophy (a Goban) was instigated for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977. After a few years of competition it was won by Leamington, who still hold it.

  • 1976 Southern - London Go Centre
  • 1976 Northern - Huddersfield
  • 1977 Southern - London Go Centre
  • 1978 Southern - Alexandra House
  • 1978 Northern - Leeds
  • 1979 Severn Valley - Monmouth
  • 1980 Midlands - Coventry
  • 1980 Northern - Canute
  • 1981 Northern - Leeds
  • 1982 Northern - Canute
  • 1983 Midlands - Malvern
  • 1983 London - London Vegetarians
  • 1983 Northern - Huddersfield and Sheffield
  • 1984 Midlands (Tournament) - Coventry
  • 1984-6 Northern - Huddersfield and Sheffield
Our Online League (Teams)

Our League Tournament is designed to be played mainly over the Internet. The purpose is to encourage interaction between players in different areas of the country and to encourage online play amongst members of our Association.

The league has not been held since 2018.

Individual Leagues ran from January 2011 to October 2012.

Portsmouth

Tournament held near Portsmouth.

  • 1999 Alistair Wall