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Youth Grand Prix 1993

This runs throughout the year and is not a specific tournament. Junior players score points for each tournament they enter, with additional points being scored for each game that they win.

The top three players at the end of the year hold the trophies for a year and receive a winners' certificate plus a cash prize, presented at the...

 Edmund Smith Youth GP Winners
Wessex October 1970

One of the oldest events in the UK, this event was for many years run by Bristol club in the town hall in Marlborough in Wiltshire, a location chosen to easy driving in pre-motorway days. It then moved to Keynsham before settling down in Bath, with that club taking over running it.

Now a 3 round McMahon, but formerly 4 rounds, taking...

 Tongzhou Cai Bath Go Club
Welwyn Garden City 18/04/2015 March 2011

A 3-round McMahon originally held in the Welwyn Garden City Bridge Club room at Gosling Stadium in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire.

 Paul Taylor http://stalbans-go.org.uk
Welsh Open 20/06/2015 - 21/06/2015 June 1993

Apart from the first year, which was 3 rounds on one day, this is a 5-round McMahon tournament held over a weekend in June. It has always been held in the West Wales seaside resort of Barmouth.

 Alistair Wall
UK Go Challenge Finals June 2004

Based on the UK Chess Challenge, the UK Go Challenge is for schools and junior players. Heats are run in schools, with an overall Final which can be also attended by junior players who did not play in a heat. See ukgochallenge.com.

 Melchior Chui Go Challenge
UCC Cork November 2008

A tournament held over a weekend, at UCC in Cork, Ireland.

 Philippe Renault http://uccgoclub.wordpress.com/ucc-go-tournament-2014
Trigantius 07/03/2015 March 1977

This originated as the Cambridge Tournament, but it was renamed in 1977 in honour of Nicolaus Trigantius, a monk who travelled to China in the 17th Century and wrote about Go.

 Jon Diamond
Three Peaks November 1993

Originally held in The Marton Arms in Thornton in Lonsdale, which was then owned by Go player Tim Hazleden. It continued for several years there after Tim's tragic death and raised money for local charities. Eventually it had to find a new location and moved via another pub, which closed shortly thereafter, to the Commodore Inn in Grange-over-...

 Matthew Cocke http://www.britgo.org/files/threepeaks2014.pdf
Thames Valley Team Trophy April 1985

A team event for clubs located in the tideless part of the Thames Valley. It was a League until 1993 and has been a one day tournament on Easter Monday since then (often known by lots of Ts, eg TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT).

Note the Broken Go Stone Trophy is not the original broken stone as it got broken.

2013 awarded on team result at...

 Wanstead
Terry Stacey Grand Prix 1990

This is not a specific tournament, but runs throughout the year.

All players score a point for every game won in UK tournaments in games played above the McMahon bar. The year ends at the British Go Congress, where the trophy in memory of Terry Stacey is presented.

 Andrew Simons Stacey Points Page