UK Tournament Report

Go at 27th Mind Sports Olympiad

MSO
Sun, 27 - Mon, 28 Aug 2023

The 27th Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) took place in its regular venue of the JW3 centre in London. As usual a large number of games fans from around the world, including this time a large team of Koreans, assembled to play a long and varied list of games. Some Go players competed in several games: Ai Guan, Paul Smith and Caleb Monk; Natasha Regan was the Women's Pentamind champion. Details of all MSO results are on the MSO Database.

Last updated Wed Sep 27 2023.
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"New" Venue Popular for Welsh Open

Welsh Open
Barmouth
Sat, 24 - Sun, 25 Jun 2023

On 24-25 June, the switch back to Barmouth's Dragon Theatre proved popular with the 30 attendees, who took advantage of a rare whole-weekend tournament on the BGA calendar. The theatre was the tournament's very first venue in the seaside town, back in 1993. It felt good for the event to be supporting a fine, renovated community amenity, for this 29th edition.

The weather was mixed, but there were chances to climb the cliffs for views of the town, its wide bay and the start of Snowdonia national park's scenic mountainous region.

Last updated Wed Jul 12 2023.
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Chenghang Liu Wins First UK Tournament

Cheshire
Frodsham
Sat, 1 Jul 2023

The Cheshire, which had been postponed from March because of a train strike, took place on Saturday 1st July at Frodsham Community Centre. North-west clubs were well represented: Liverpool club provided five of the 32 players, Manchester eight players, Lancaster four players and Chester four players.

Last updated Tue Nov 21 2023.
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Durham Social Despite Weather

Durham
Sat, 17 - Sun, 18 Jun 2023

The 2023 Durham Go Tournament was held in Elvet Hill House, next to the Oriental Museum, as has become traditional over the last few years. This year Andrew was able to be there in person to help with the organisation, having not contracted Covid!

Last updated Sun Jun 25 2023.
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British Pair Go Held in the North-West

British Pair Go
Frodsham Community Centre
Sat, 10 Jun 2023

Last updated Wed Jun 21 2023.
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Xiao Wins All at Not the London Open

Not the London Open
London Go Centre
Sat, 27 - Mon, 29 May 2023

Yicheng Xiao (6d UCL) won all his games to win both the Open and the Lightning at the fourth Not the London Open. He won all six games in the 58-player Open, whilst Chun Fang (6d Edinburgh) only lost to the winner to take second and Yiyang Ding (5d) was third by tie-break. To win the Sunday evening lightning he had to beat Scott Cobbold in the final.

Last updated Mon Sep 04 2023.
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1st UCL Tournament a Big Success

UCL
Sat, 15 Apr 2023

Last updated Thu Jul 06 2023.
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British Go Congress Held in Belfast

British Open
Belfast
Fri, 31 Mar - Sun, 2 Apr 2023

For the first time in 65 years the British Congress was held in Northern Ireland, in the Maldron City Hotel in Belfast. 47 players made the journey, including nine from south of the border due to the efforts of the Irish Go Association. Thanks must go to the IGA, who provided the kit for the event, to Tiberiu Gociu, who did much of the local legwork before and during the event, and to Toby Manning and Colin Williams for running the two tournaments.

Last updated Tue Apr 18 2023.
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Yorkson Wins MSO GP 9x9 Event

MSO GP 9x9
OGS
Sun, 12 Mar 2023

The second Go event in this year's Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix was the 9x9 event played online on OGS over a Sunday afternoon. There were 24 players from 35k to 6d with a large geographic spread. The Gold medal winner from Hong Kong was Yat Hin Yorkson Cheung. Silver went to Ho Yeung Woo and Bronze to Jonas Welticke. Junior Medal winners were Ryan Zhang, Andrew Volovich and Julia Volovich. Results

Last updated Fri Mar 24 2023.
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Joint Winners at Cambridge

Trigantius
Sat, 11 Mar 2023

For the second time this year an event in Cambridge had to close its entry list some days before because of high demand to play. This year's Trigantius, played as last year at St Philip's Church Centre, had 79 players of whom 23 were juniors. Because of a problem with one of the top player's registrations there were 9 players above the 4d bar and it ended up with two of them unbeaten.

Last updated Mon Sep 04 2023.
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