Yesterday, 15th December, we purchased the ex-Salvation Army citadel in Ravenscourt Park, to turn it into the London MindSports Centre, for £1.7M.
The purchase was made by a company set up for the specific purpose of
purchasing and owning the building, MindSports Property Limited (MPL).
I, Toby Manning, am a Director of this company. The T Mark Hall Foundation
is investing £400,000 in MPL (£100,000 of which is done via the London
Go Centre) and the remaining investment is from Bridge players
associated with the Young Chelsea Bridge Club. We are in discussions
with the Chess community to see if they also wish to invest in MPL.
YCBC's premises in Goldhawk Road (the location of the last two London Open Go Congresses) will close, and both YCBC and the London Go Centre will move to the London MindSports Centre.
We have a certain amount of work to do to re-commission the building (it has been unoccupied for four years), some modifications to be made (e.g.
The Autumn 2020 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
The London Go Centre continues to add teaching videos to its extensive collection on their YouTube channel.
Latest uploads include reviews by Daniel Hu of the games in the Adult-Youth match and the first of a series by professional Mateusz Surma: Fuseki Insights.
The Summer 2020 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
The Spring 2020 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
Since face-to-face Go tournaments are currently on hold due to the global Coronavirus pandemic, we have decided to run an online tournament for BGA members. Hopefully this will give people another way to keep in touch and have some fun in these unusual times!
The tournament will be a 3 round Mcmahon tournament run on the Bank Holiday weekend of 8th/9th/10th May and will be EGF rated. The tournament is open to BGA members only - but there is still plenty of time to join the BGA and be eligible to play!
More details of the tournament, and how to enter, here: http://britgo.org/may2020online
The Winter 2019-2020 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
The Autumn 2019 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
The Summer 2019 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.
The Spring 2019 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read.