Council News
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| Council Meeting Highlights: 2011-07-16 | This summarises the major discussions and actions from the BGA Council meeting 16th July 2011 and preceding discussions |
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| Council Meeting Minutes | The latest two sets of minutes are now available to be viewed by members here and here. |
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| Game Review Service | Association members are reminded of a benefit that few have taken up recently, perhaps in part because it was low down the website tree. The Game Review Service can be a very efficient way of improving your game as comments are tailored to the individual's strengths and weaknesses. So why don't you send in a game today? |
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| Highlights of the BGA Council Meeting, 2010-11-28 | There was a meeting of BGA Council on 28th November 2010. Here are the highlights: |
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| How to Play Go licensed | In March the BGA was approached by a Taiwanese Game Manufacturer who wanted to use the text and diagrams from our “How to Play GO” booklet in a new Go set produced in volume for the North American and European market. They said “We found the 'How to play Go' on your web site is very clear and easy to understand”. |
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| Learn to Play Go Week | As most of you are probably aware there has been an announcement about an international Learn to Play Go week from GoGameGuru: |
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| New Officials | I'm pleased to be able to announce that the following people have been appointed as Officials of our organisation:
I'd like to welcome both of them on board - Please give them all they help they need. |
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| New Tournament Registration System | Thanks to John Collins we now have a new system to handle online Registration for our Tournaments. This does not handle any payments, but allows anyone to enter a tournament using a simple online form, provide an ICS calendar entry and also look at the list of publicly available entrants. This system is available as a free service to any Tournament Organiser who is a BGA member. |
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| Paul Smith and Maria Tabor to retire from Council | Although I've written in the forthcoming British Go Journal that all Council members are offering themselves for re-election, it turns out that two of the existing members have recently decided not to for a variety of personal reasons. We thank them for their efforts and hope that they will still continue working with the BGA to promote and develop Go in the UK. |
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| Policies Presentation Re-vamp | Some little time ago it was realised that the way our current policies are presented is far from optimal. There was not a lot of consistency across them, and in many cases it was quite hard to separate the key policy statements from the descriptions of processes used. An initiative was started to revamp the presentation of our policies, with the objectives of: |