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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.