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A reminder that the 2025 BGA AGM will be next week on Thursday 22nd at 20:00, held by ZOOM video-conference.

The latest agenda and supporting documents can be found as usual on https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts , a link for the ZOOM session will appear on that page early next week.

A number of important amendments to the motions have been proposed by members, and these have now been included on the agenda. Several short papers have been submitted in support of the amendments, and these too can be found on https://www.britgo.org/history/accounts

We are also privileged this year to have two excellent…

The last round in the 2024-2025 season was against Switzerland. The games were all started at different times and by the advertised start time the UK was 2-1 with just Alison Bexfield's game to go. Unfortunately she lost and the match was tied, but since Belgium didn't lose the UK team was going to stay fifth anyway.

Italy won the B-League, despite losing the last match to second placed Netherlands. Croatia was third ahead of Belgium. Lithuania was demoted and Serbia will be in the play-off.

League Page with game records

Jake Game wrote of his game against John Walch: I lost a nice game wherein both players were panicking in time trouble but my opponent was always ahead…

This Early May Bank Holiday saw 43 players gather in the Leicester County Bridge Club (St Oswalds) for a long weekend of Go.

20 players competed in the Candidates' Tournament, the highest turnout in a decade. Congratulations to Yaoling Yang (7d Bristol) who swept 1st place with 6 out of 6 wins, and Lucretiu Calota (4d St Albans) who took 2nd place with 5 wins, losing only to Yaoling Yang. The two will go on to play a best-of-three Title Match to determine the 2025 British Go Champion. We were delighted to see the top 8 rounded out with two juniors: British Youth Champion Ryan Zhang (3d London City) in 7th with 4 wins and London Youth Champion Kwun Yin Ng (2d) in 8th leading the field on 3 wins. …

The Spring 2025 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read in the Members' Area, with printed copies being sent out to those that receive them.

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…