British Congress returns to Scotland

British Open
Sat, 12 - Sun, 13 Apr 2025

The British Congress returned to Edinburgh after 15 years, this time hosted by the New Melville Bridge Club. With leafy Corstorphine and Edinburgh Zoo as a backdrop, the venue offered a quiet and spacious setting for a long weekend of Go. Fifty-seven players, matching last year’s turnout, gathered to make up one of the strongest player fields in recent memory.

Last updated Tue Jul 08 2025.
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Durham Features Tea Ceremony

Durham
Sat, 7 - Sun, 8 Jun 2025

On Saturday 7th June around 40 Go players descended on Elvet Hill House for the 2025 Durham Go Tournament. Ranks ranged from 7d down to a 30k player who played his second ever 19x19 game in Round 1, and there was also a good range of ages - including several youth players as well as a number of university students. Players came from across the UK, from London to Cardiff to Edinburgh.

Last updated Tue Jul 08 2025.
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31st Welsh Open has X Factor!

Welsh Open
Barmouth
Sat, 28 - Sun, 29 Jun 2025

On 28th and 29th June, Barmouth's Dragon Theatre was again the venue for the Welsh Open. 43 players - 13 up on 2024 - took advantage of the two-day tournament - a rarity on the BGA calendar. The higher numbers enabled the hiring of a separate room, where many reviewed their games and non-players could relax and mingle. A standout feature for 2025 was that no fewer than 10 players were from the Welsh clubs of Cardiff (9) and Aberystwyth (1) - surely a record?

Last updated Sun Jul 06 2025.
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New Director

I'm very pleased to announce that Damen (Ho-Yeung Woo) has been co-opted onto the Board of Directors of the BGA. He will have responsibility for player development, a task he has already been sharing with Sam Bithell.

This brings the Board appointments up to eight again, and continues a general trend where the average age of the Directors is decreasing, surely a good sign for the future of Go in the UK.

Last updated Mon Jun 30 2025.
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British Pair Go Finds New Home

Pair Go
Nottingham
Sat, 14 Jun 2025

The British Pair Go Championship moved to Nottingham for the first time this year, with the tournament being sponsored by Threedy Printers Limited.

In another first we saw new first-time champions of Ai Guan and Damen Woo, with Alison and Simon Bexfield taking second place and Lauren Hindmarch and Bjorn Eurenius taking third spot.

Last updated Thu Jun 19 2025.
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UK Youth Team Wins Final Against Germany

Sat, 17 - Sun, 18 May 2025

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.

Last updated Mon May 19 2025.
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International Tournaments

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

Last updated Thu May 15 2025.
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2025 AGM - Updated Agenda & Supporting Documents

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.

Last updated Thu May 15 2025.
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UK End Season in Fifth

Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Pandanet
Tue, 13 May 2025

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

Last updated Wed May 14 2025.
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43 at Candidates and Inaugural Aspirants

Candidates
Leicester
Sat, 3 - Mon, 5 May 2025

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

Last updated Sat May 10 2025.
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