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Thu, 31/05/2012 - 17:10 — Jon Diamond

The latest, still preliminary, information we now have is:

Date: August 13-23 2012 (opening ceremony on August 9)

Venue: Grand Palais Lille, Lille, France

Eligibility: Amateur players nominated by the go organisations to which they belong. Nominations must be submitted to the tournament office by July 30.





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Thu, 31/05/2012 - 10:49 — Jon Diamond

Information correct at time of posting - check the Tournament Calendar for latest

Information now archived





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Tournament Name: 
Challengers' League
Tournament Date: 
1 June 2012 - 4 June 2012

Andrew Kay and Nick Krempel will be playing the best-of-three Title Match, which will be relayed via KGS. Watch out for more detailed announcements when plans have been finalised. Many thanks are due to Kiyohiko Tanaka, Rippei Hayashi and the Nippon Club for hosting, and Michael Webster and Alistair Wall for sharing the refereeing duties with Jenny Radcliffe.





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Tournament Name: 
Galway
Tournament Date: 
26 May 2012 - 27 May 2012

Handicap and no-komi games are in red, played handicap-1.





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Wed, 30/05/2012 - 19:30 — Jon Diamond

This year, the BGA is making a concerted effort to attract new players to the game of go by encouraging new go clubs to form in Universities and Colleges.





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Sat, 26/05/2012 - 02:17 — Jon Diamond

The BGA Council has decided to produce this update once a month for double digit kyu (DDK) players. If you are a DDK player, let us know what you like to hear about. And if you have any ideas about the sort of Go tournaments or events which are best for DDK players or which you would like to see in the future, please let us know.





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Fri, 25/05/2012 - 09:59 — Jon Diamond

This summarises the major discussions and actions from the BGA Council meeting 22nd April 2012 and preceding discussions:





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Fri, 25/05/2012 - 09:53 — Jon Diamond

This summarises the major discussions and actions from the BGA Council meeting 11th March 2012 and preceding discussions:





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Tournament Name: 
Scottish Open
Tournament Date: 
19 May 2012 - 20 May 2012

The bar was at 10k. John MacDonald (15k Syke) won the Friday evening half-board event.





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Mon, 21/05/2012 - 17:04 — Jon Diamond
Tournament Name: 
Pandanet Go European Team Championship
Tournament Date: 
20 May 2012

We won our final match of the season against Denmark 3-1, meaning we will finish in 4th or 5th place, depending on the results of the other games in the final round; better than last year when we finished 7th. Watch http://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/ for final details.

In round 9 Chong Han won on board 1 against Kasper Ho





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