UK Youth Team Win 3-2 Against Romania

European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC)
KGS
Sat, 15 - Sun, 16 Jan 2022

The UK Youth Go Team won against Romania in round 3 of the European Youth Go Team Championship this weekend. Player of the Match goes to Edmund for stepping up at very short notice to ensure we did not default a game.

Last updated Tue Mar 08 2022.
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Online Event in Canada - Jan 16th

For those that can cope with the time differences, please see below. I have confirmed this is open to British players as well.

We-Go would like to advertise their open tournament this Sunday January 16th. This is an online tournament (so players from across Canada are welcome!), and with current Covid conditions it's a great time to join an online event. See the full details on the event page at Event Page
Last updated Mon Jan 17 2022.
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UK Match With Switzerland Unfinished

Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Pandanet
Tue, 14 Dec 2021

The result of the UK match against Switzerland is uncertain as one game was not finished. Bruno played his game early on the Sunday morning and won, but on the Tuesday night both Alex and Jamie lost. Jon's game against Frédéric Schlattner was, however, abandoned after connection issues meant his opponent dropped out four times.

League Page with game records

Last updated Thu Jan 20 2022.
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Yaoling Yang Wins London Open

London Open
LGC
Tue, 28 - Fri, 31 Dec 2021

The London Go Centre trustees took the view that the 47th London Open Go Congress would be staged as though the world were back to normal, writes organiser Gerry Gavigan. We thought this was important to help ensure the future health of the tournament. During the registration period it became clear that not everyone agreed with us.

Last updated Mon Jan 17 2022.
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UK Youth Team Win Against Hungary

European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC)
KGS
Sat, 11 Dec 2021

In round 2 of the European Youth Go Team Championship the UK team was drawn against Hungary. Our team had three of the five players making their debut appearance: Claire, Spike and Lukasz. Daniel, one of longer standing players, played a day ahead of the other games and took an easy win setting us up well for the remaining boards. Lukasz's game was a bit of a rollercoaster to watch on board 5, with a large group lacking the required number of eyes for some time. Lukasz held his nerve and capitalised on his opponent's error to save his group.

Last updated Mon Jan 17 2022.
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Daniel Hu New British Champion

British Championship
Sat, 27 Nov 2021

This year, because of no events earlier in the year, the top two British players at September's British Open were selected to contest for the title of British Go Champion. The two players were Daniel Hu (5d) who was equal second in the Open, and Bruno Poltronieri (3d) equal fourth. The match was arranged for Saturday 27th Novermber at a private location in Cambridge and the game got under way about 12 minutes after the advertised start time of 10:30.

Last updated Sat Nov 27 2021.
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Scott Cobbold Wins British Youth

BYGC
Leicester
Sat, 20 Nov 2021

This year the British Youth Go Championship returned to be played over the board and was held in Leicester. The venue was the County Bridge Club in the New Parks district of the city, a very pleasant building that was until recently a children's nursery. The midlands location attracted players from all corners: Edinburgh, Cambridge and London, Cornwall and Manchester.

Last updated Fri Dec 24 2021.
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AGM 2022

In the November Council meeting, the following were agreed:

Last updated Tue Nov 23 2021.
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Committee Appointments

In the November Council meeting it was agreed that

- Colin Williams would take over the Chair of the Tournaments Committee, following the resignation of Matt Marsh. Matt will still be managing the running of this year's British Championship
- Stephen Tweedie would take over the Chair of the Technical Committee from Colin

Handover sessions are being arranged, and committee members should hear from the new Chairs reasonably soon.

Last updated Tue Nov 23 2021.
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UK Youth Team Lose Against France

European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC)
KGS
Sat, 13 Nov 2021

The UK youth team is again playing in the European Youth Go Team Championship. As usual each match is five games played on KGS with one player U20, two U16 and two U12. Team manager Alison Bexfield made up the team following the selection tournament, including seven new team members, as announced in the November Youth Go News and listed on our EYGTC page.

Last updated Tue Nov 16 2021.
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