UK Beat Spain to Stay Top
— Tony AtkinsThe fourth match of the season was against Spain. Bruno, Scott and Des won, but Toby lost, meaning the team again won 3-1. This cemented their lead at the top of C-League.
Bruno Poltronieri wrote: I won my game by 17.5 against Ignacio Cernuda. I was slightly ahead after the opening after the result on the bottom side, but started a questionable fight on the left. My opponent played some equally questionable moves and we came out of it roughly even. I then gained my lead gradually in the endgame.
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British Congress 2024
— Colin WilliamsThis years congress will be at the Holiday Inn, Warwick, from the evening of Friday 5th to Sunday 7th April. Details are available on the events calendar https://www.britgo.org/tournaments. You can enter for any or all of the days as you wish.
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BGJ 206 Now Available in Members' Area
— Tony AtkinsThe Winter 2023-24 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 shortly.
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2024 Candidates Qualification
— Colin WilliamsThe qualification rules for the Candidates event require a player to have attained the necessary grade in a tournament ending during the 12 months prior to 31st March. In a desire to open up the event to as many people as possible, whilst not reducing the general standard, the Board have agreed that in 2024 the British Go Congress (which ends on 7th April) will also count as a tournament from which people can qualify for the 2024 Candidates.
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UK Defeat Denmark to Go Top
— Tony AtkinsThe third match of the C-League season was against third-placed Denmark. Bruno, Scott and Alison all won, but Tim lost, meaning the team won 3-1. South Africa drew with Kyrgyzstan so we moved up from second to first place.
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UK Youth Beat Romania
— Tony AtkinsThe UK youth squad won their third round match 3-2 against Romania yesterday in the European Youth Go team Competition. With one round to go this leaves the UK in third place.
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Chinese Boys Dominate London Open
— Tony AtkinsThe 49th London Open was dominated by two Chinese boys who between themselves won all three tournaments. Some may remember Yue Wen from when he lived in London about five years ago and was 7k. He is shown here playing Charlie Akerblom on the top board. His brother Qi Wen was too young to compete then.
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Cornel Burzo Wins Euro Final in London
— Tony AtkinsThe 7th European Grand Prix Finale was held alongside the London Open at the London Go Centre on the weekend of 28th-31st December.
Ten top players, who had won places at qualifying events, took part, split initially into two groups. The UK's Damen Woo (shown here against Mateusz Surma with game broadcaster Tony Claasen) won his group unbeaten, as did Lukas Podpera in the other.
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Youth Team Narrowly Loses to France
— Tony AtkinsThe UK youth team narrowly lost to France by two boards to three in the second round of the European Youth Team Competition. Our U12 boards, Ryan Zhang and Yanyi Xiong, both picked up wins. Ryan's game was particularly exciting culminating in a half-point win, with Yanyi again performing strongly against a higher-rated player to gain a 7.5-point win. Our two U16 boards, Alvina Kwok and Daniel Yang, fought hard but were not able to defeat their slightly stronger opponents. On the top board Scott Cobbold had an exciting game against Linh Vu Tu, a 4 dan, but ultimately had to resign.
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Second 2023 British Small Board Held in Cambridge
— Tony AtkinsBecause the 2022 edition of the British Small Board Championship was delayed until February, the 2023 edition on the afternoon of Saturday 18th November became the second of the year. Both were held in Pembroke College Old Library in Cambridge, but the second attracted four fewer players with 34. There was an overall winner prize of £25 provided by the BGA and this went to local student Tunyang Xie (5d).
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