UK Beat South Africa
In the third game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team had to play the team from South Africa (who are allowed to play in Europe as they have no near Go neighbours). One game was played at the weekend and Jake's win meant the team only had to win two games on the night. As expected Victor Chow beat our board one, Damen Woo, but we won on the other two boards. This win moved the team up to seventh place. At the top Croatia became clear first by beating Ireland, with John Coutney the only Irish winner. The next match is on 13th January with UK against Austria.
Damen Woo lost a complicated game to Victor Chow on top board. He wrote: I got a decent lead in the beginning. In the middle game I wanted to fight for more, but it ended up losing me the game in a complicated fight.
Michael Cheung outplayed Chris Welsh and won by 14.5.
Bruno Poltronieri wrote: I won my game against Andrew Davies by resignation. During the first fight, he played a wrong move, letting me capture two stones in a ladder. After that, though I'm not convinced by how I continued the fight, I think it was probably even. But later my opponent played a peep in the centre which wasn't really sente. I ignored it to attack his centre group which I eventually killed and he resigned.
Jake Game wrote: I managed to get lucky with the black stones against Andre Connell. It seemed Black always had good chances due to some corner inaccuracies by White. Perhaps White had a chance to counterattack in complicated central fighting, but it ended with him resigning.
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