Events Calendar

The BGA is keen to promote Go and so publicises tournaments and other relevant events, in order to raise awareness of them. Such publicising does not imply oversight by the the BGA except where expressly stated. The only inference to be drawn is that the BGA Council is confident that, for a rated tournament, the games are refereed to a standard that renders the outcome suitable for inclusion in the EGF database (or similar). The wider organisational issues remain the responsibility of the tournament organiser.

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2021

March

April

British Go Congress Delayed until Autumn

May

Bar-Low

Sunday 2nd May. London Go Centre. 5-round McMahon tournament for kyu players only. 25 minutes with 20 in 5 minutes overtime. Registration 09:00 - 09:45. Prizes at 18:00. Contact londongocentre at gmail.com C More Info

Not the London Open

Saturday 29th - Monday 31st May. London Go Centre. 7-round McMahon tournament. 70 minutes plus 10 seconds Fischer Time. Also side events, including Lightning, Pairgo, lectures and analysis. Contact londongocentre at gmail.com A More Info/Entry

June

British Pair Go (provisional)

Saturday 5th June 2021.

Cheltenham (provisional)

Saturday 12th June 2021. Part of Cheltenham Science Festival.

Durham Online

Saturday 19th -20th June. To be played on OGS. 6-round McMahon tournament. C

28th Welsh Open (provisional)

Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th June 2021.

July

UK Go Challenge Finals (Online)

Sunday 4th July (provisonal). Online on OGS. First round 14:00, end about 17:30. Finals for UK school and junior Go clubs and all other UK juniors. Free entry. Games played on 13x13 boards. Titles in age groups for boys and for girls. Contact Tony Atkins 01189268143 ukgoc at britgo.org More on UK Go Challenge

August

Youth Training Residential

Monday 16th - Thursday 19th August (provisional). Caythorpe Court, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 3ER. Go teaching mornings, afternoons outdoor activities, Go tournament evenings.

September

European Women's Go Championship

Saturday 4th - Monday 6th September 2021. London MindSports Centre, 21-23 Dalling Road, London W6 0JD. More Details here. All entrants must be female and hold a European passport.

October

November

Doki Doki Festival, Manchester

Saturday 13th - Sunday 14th November 2021 (provisional). Sugden Sports Centre, 114 Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HL (as in 2019). BGA members are as ever manning 4 stalls both days. Free demos of Go will be given to many members of the public. In 2019, of the 4,000 attendees, we demo-ed to 200, or 5%. Festival site. If you could spare time to join the BGA team - on one day or both - please contact Martin Harvey, harveymartin939 AT gmail DOT com

December

London Open

2022

January

February

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This calendar contains all suitable events in the UK and Ireland. Those without a firm date are provisional and the month may also be unreliable. Once a date is given you can assume that the event is definitely going ahead. This information is correct to the best of our knowledge; however we do not accept liability for any errors or alterations.

For recent events see the 2021 archive.

For future foreign ones see (off-site):

Key to the symbols

BC An event that is part of the British Championship.

A B C Results will be sent to the European Rating List. The different categories are given different weights as explained here.

SHOP A supplier will be selling Go books/equipment.

Note that events are played under the our AGA-style rules unless otherwise specified.

Some events are described as “by invitation only”. For example the British Championship events require some form of qualification. All players who meet the qualification criteria in a particular year should automatically be invited by the Championships’ Organiser. Some events, such as the London international teams matches, require entries by teams rather than individuals, normally within certain range of grade and from a nearby area.

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