Korean Prime Minister's Cup Brief Report
— Jon DiamondOur representative in this year's KPMC, Bruno Poltronieri, came 28th out of 52 in this prestigious event, with 3 wins out of 6.
He beat players from Lithuania, Italy and Brazil, and lost to Colombia, Sweden and Singapore.
Full results at http://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/eng/result/gameTable.asp
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2023 Congress - Provisional Details
— Colin WilliamsWe have reached agreement with the Irish Go Association to hold a joint Congress on Friday March 31st - Sunday April 2nd 2023, in Belfast. For the BGA this will be our usual annual Congress.
Further details on the exact venue will be available as they are firmed up.
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Swindon Tournament Tied
— Tony AtkinsThe Swindon Tournament was back on and at its usual Conservative Club venue in the old town part of Swindon. 21 players took part, with a small top group of 3d and above. In the end there was no unique winner as three Chinese players all beat each other. Unfortunately for Changhao Huang (5d UCL) his SOS was one point worse than the other two, so Oxford University's Guodong Cao (4d) and UCL's Peikai Xue (4d) tied for first. Jonathan Evans (1d) was the only player to win three games and got the only prize below the bar. Results
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Zeyu Qiu Wins Edinburgh
— Tony AtkinsCongratulations go to Zeyu Qiu (5d, Birmingham) who won the Edinburgh Open Tournament 2022 with three wins from three games. Also on three wins was Florian Pein (13k, Lancaster); prizes also went to everyone on two wins. Results
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Title Match Analysis on YouTube
— Colin WilliamsThe analysis by Mateusz Surma of the second British Championship title game has just been added to our YouTube channel.
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Championship Match Analysis Video
— Colin WilliamsA 30 minute analysis by Mateusz Surma of the first British Championship title match is now on our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/ZyuTXKFnlc4
Being a Mateusz video it is very approachable and understandable for all levels.
The second should be up in a couple of days.
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Half the Players at MSO are Juniors
— Tony AtkinsThe Mind Sports Olympiad returned to being a physical event and was held at the usual venue of the JW3, a community centre on London's Finchley Road. Remarkably this year half of the 26 players in the MSO Go Open (19x19) tournament were juniors and as well most of the adults were Chinese students. A view of part of the playing room is above.
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New British Champion
— Colin WilliamsBreaking News ...
In the last 10 minutes Gaoge Wang has beaten Bruno Poltronieri 2-0 to become the 2022 British Champion, and the first ever female British Champion.
Thanks go to the LGC for hosting and streaming it, and Matthew Macfadyen for the commentary.
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Title Matches showing live this weekend
— Colin WilliamsJust a reminder that this weekend, 20/21 August, sees the first two matches in the best of 3 between Gaoge Wang and Bruno Poltronieri for the 2022 British Championship.
They start at 12:00 each day and will be streamed live on the London Go Centre YouTube channel. Please do look in sometime over the weekend. The time limits are quite long so the matches are likely to run for several hours.
Matthew Macfadyen will be providing a commentary which we hope to be on KGS. Matthew will also be answering questions on the YouTube channel, so may well advertise the KGS event there.
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