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The UK youth team has won the European Youth Team Competition 2025 having won all four preliminary rounds, their semi-final against Romania and this weekend the final against Germany.

In the final, the teams were fairly evenly matched with the UK having a very slight edge on paper. Ryan played first on board 1, losing to the German 6 dan. Sung Hee Lim took a good win on board 4 against an opponent one grade weaker on paper. With the UK expected to win on board 5 where Lukasz outgraded his opponent (which he duly did), this left the UK needing to win one of two evenly matched boards. Alvina played well to take a win on board 2, whilst Daniel lost an exciting game on board 3 with groups on both sides dying, leaving the UK the…

We now have a number of people assigned to represent us in various international events. For your information here is a current update, not including the Pandanet tournament team members.

45th World Amateur Go Championship – May 16th – 21st, Vancouver.

Alistair Wall is our player here. Biographies of who he is up against can be seen at https://leago.gg/event/wagc2025/player-bios

40th World Youth Go Championship – August 21st to 29th, Selangor, Malaysia

Following his excellent results at the European Youth Championship Lukasz Kudla has qualified to represent us at this event.

20th Korea Prime Ministers Cup – Nov 7th – 14th, Taebaek City

Toby Manning is our adult…

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. …