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Dear Members,

A reminder that the 2025 AGM will be held on May 22nd by ZOOM.

The following items are now available to view at https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts

• The AGM Agenda
• The 2024 Annual Report
• The 2024 Accounts

It is not too late to put yourself forwards to be on the Disputes Panel, nominations are open until May 8th.

Any proposed amendments to the motions on the agenda must be received by the BGA Secretary secretary@britgo.org on or before Sunday May 18th 2025.

The appointment of a proxy to vote on behalf of a member must be received by the BGA Secretary…

In the 8th game of the season the team had to play lower-placed Finland. Finland had trouble getting together four players, with talk of games at different days and times, but in the end it was only board one that started early and the UK had to quickly find a reserve player as one of the selected team thought there was no game for them. The match ended a draw leaving the UK in fifth place, with just one match to go, against Switzerland on 13th May.

League Page with game records

Scott Cobbold wrote about his game with against Javier-Aleksi Savolainen: The game quickly became complicated after the start, during the fighting I created too many groups leading to a collapse.

The UK youth Go teams in two different European leagues co-incidentally both played Germany last week.

In the Pandanet European Youth Go Championship the match was very even in terms of grade on most boards other than board 5 where we had a 3 grade advantage. Lukasz Kudla duly took a win on that board - although the game was not without excitement as he lost a group early on but went on to kill an extremely large group that went across the board giving him a 41 point win. Our other players had less success. Michael Mitcham-Harding lost by resignation in his game on board 1, as did Yanyi Xiong on board 2. Zoe Walters' game on board 4 also saw Zoe fight hard to successfully rescue a group that at…

I have just received the following from the EGF. There is a very tight deadline.

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Dear friends,

the EGF got knowledge about a top-tournament for students. Please help to find candidates - the deadline for nominating interested players is the 13th April 2025. All details about the 9th Annual World Collegiate WEICHI Championship 2025 you will find here: https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=471

Sorry about the late information.
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I am happy to announce that Craig Maclean from the Durham club has volunteered for the above role. He comes highly recommended, having done a similar job for the Durham club for some time now. In particular their use of social media has resulted in many more students returning to the club after their first visit.

Craig will be settling into the role over the next few months, and will be looking to issue a regular stream of informative social media content. Exactly how this will operate will be explained in subsequent communications.

We wish him every success.