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14/01/2024 - 21:19: UK Youth Beat Romania


The 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.

On paper the UK had the slight edge over Romania, but the games were closely matched to within two grades so anything was possible. Our two U12 players finished first and both took a win. Yanyi played a competent game to win by resignation giving him is third win in as many matches. Blake made his debut for…

12/12/2023 - 11:35: Youth Team Narrowly Loses to France


The 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…

21/11/2023 - 10:15: Alvina Kwok is Youth Champion


Congratulations to Alvina Kwok (2d) who is our new Under-16 and British Youth Go Champion. Shown left, she is the first girl to win the event since Maria Tabor in 2008. Alvina, who is originally from Hong Kong, was the best of the 38 players and defeated Scott Cobbold (4d) and Ryan Zhang (2d) on her way to the trophy.

Other age-group winners were: Under-18:…

08/11/2023 - 21:49: UK Youth Beat Turkey 5-0


Our UK youth Go squad has played the first round of the European Youth Go Team Competition and won 5-0 against Turkey. The round was meant to be played on Saturday 11th November, but as this clashed with the UK youth championship Turkey kindly agreed to play the games early.

Our team for this round comprised Scott Cobbold, Alvina Kwok, Michael Mitcham-Harding, Ryan Zhang and Yanyi Xiong. We were expecting to win on the first three boards, as the grades were in our favour and our…

26/08/2023 - 22:05: Sixth Youth Camp Successful


The sixth annual youth camp attracted 16 players from 32 kyu to 3 kyu and 8 years to 17 years old (the younger players allowed in specially after the event was initially undersubscribed). Again Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire was the venue and as well as Go lessons and playing, the youngsters were able to enjoy climbing, rafting, shooting, fencing, high…

11/02/2023 - 17:46: UK Youth Beat Czechia to End Second


The UK youth team played their final round match today in the European Youth Go Team Championship. The UK EYGTC team was drawn against Czechia and we knew that if we could win the match, and France could win against Romania, then we should finish in the medals. The same was true for our opponents. Both team managers tried to ensure we had a full team for the official match time so that it would be an exciting…

27/01/2023 - 11:02: Scott Cobbold Retains British Youth Title


Scott Cobbold retained the British Youth Go Champion title by winning all his games at the championships held on Saturday 21st January. The event, covering the school year 2022 to 2023, was held, as was the 2021 British Youth Go Championships, at the Leicester County Bridge Club. 48 youngsters from 5 to 18 years old battled for the age group titles and awards were also given for best player below the 5k bar and for the best Novice. Noteworthy results were by Hanna Kudla who won all five…

19/01/2023 - 11:35: UK Youth beat Turkey


The UK youth go team played Turkey in round 3 of the 4 round European Youth Go Team Championship.

On paper it looked to be a close match with two boards looking in favour of Turkey and two in favour of the UK EYGTC team and one even in terms of stated grades. However, grades can be unreliable as some young people can improve very fast through the tournament duration or have not played sufficient…

11/12/2022 - 15:35: UK Youth Beat Hungary


In the second match in the European Youth Go Team Championship, the UK youth team played Hungary. Another five youngsters from our EYGTC team took part, with games spread over the two days of the weekend.

The first games to be played saw Daniel Chun Yang beat Zalan Makany by resignation, but Lea Wong lose to Bence Tomesz by 29.5 points. Later Emily Gan beat Noemi Balogh by 108.5. On the Sunday our Lukasz…

23/11/2022 - 16:15: Autumn Online Youth Events


The first online youth event of the autumn was the UK Squad Selection Tournament on Sunday 18th September. Twenty players took part, hoping to attract the attention of the squad manager, most being from Cambridge, London and Edinburgh. The event winner was Scott Cobbold with three wins, with Gene Wong as the runner up. The only player below the bar winning three was Yiliang Liu (16k Cambridge).

The second online event was the delayed 2022 UK GO Challenge Finals on 16th October.…