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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.…
23/11/2022 - 15:43 : UK Youth Lost to Germany The UK youth team is again playing in the European Youth Go Team Championship. This time each match is five games played on OGS (not KGS) with one player U20, two U16 and two U12. Team manager Alison Bexfield made up the team as listed on our EYGTC page. Alison aims to rotate the players on the team, to give all a chance to play, whilst trying to match strengths of opponents and yet giving the team a chance of…
22/08/2022 - 11:17 : Fifth Youth Camp Held The fifth annual Youth Go Camp took place as before at Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire. This time 17 youngsters from 9 to 17, 28k to 3d, took part in the Go teaching and play and the outdoor adventure activities. As the temperature was around 30 and the skies dark blue the most popular was the raft building on the lake. The Go was taught by Alison Bexfield, Tony Atkins…
13/02/2022 - 12:07 : UK Youth Team Win to End Third The UK Youth Go Team won against Russia B team to finish third overall in the European Youth Go Team Championship. This is an excellent result especially since our team this year had so many new faces. Russia was again champion, with France (who had beaten UK in round one) in second. In the final round we had the slight edge on paper, but the Russia B team comprises rapidly improving U12 players where paper grades might well be out of date. We knew that…
17/01/2022 - 09:47 : UK Youth Team Win 3-2 Against Romania The UK Youth Go Team won against Romania in round 3 of the European Youth Go Team Championship this weekend. Player of the Match goes to Edmund for stepping up at very short notice to ensure we did not default a game. One of the newest squad members, Jin Cheng, was making his debut for the team. He had a good game on board 4, but could not quite achieve a win and lost by 11.5 points. Next to finish was Scott Cobbold, who took an easy win by resignation…
11/12/2021 - 20:39 : UK Youth Team Win Against Hungary In round 2 of the European Youth Go Team Championship the UK team was drawn against Hungary. Our team had three of the five players making their debut appearance: Claire, Spike and Lukasz. Daniel, one of longer standing players, played a day ahead of the other games and took an easy win setting us up well for the remaining boards. Lukasz's game was a bit of a rollercoaster to watch on board 5, with a large group lacking the required number of eyes for some time…
23/11/2021 - 20:09 : Scott Cobbold Wins British Youth This year the British Youth Go Championship returned to be played over the board and was held in Leicester. The venue was the County Bridge Club in the New Parks district of the city, a very pleasant building that was until recently a children's nursery. The midlands location attracted players from all corners: Edinburgh, Cambridge and London, Cornwall and Manchester. Access…
16/11/2021 - 10:26 : UK Youth Team Lose Against France The UK youth team is again playing in the European Youth Go Team Championship. As usual each match is five games played on KGS with one player U20, two U16 and two U12. Team manager Alison Bexfield made up the team following the selection tournament, including seven new team members, as announced in the November Youth Go News and listed on our EYGTC page. Alison aims to rotate the…
21/08/2021 - 11:28 : Youth Camp Back After Year Gap The fourth residential Youth Camp took place at Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire from 16th to 19th August, after a year gap. There were 22 young participants from age 10 to 18 and 25k to 2k. As before, it was a mixture of outdoor activities, Go games and Go teaching. The format included Go competition each evening with a four-round tournament (…

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.…

23/11/2022 - 15:43 : UK Youth Lost to Germany

The UK youth team is again playing in the European Youth Go Team Championship. This time each match is five games played on OGS (not KGS) with one player U20, two U16 and two U12. Team manager Alison Bexfield made up the team as listed on our EYGTC page. Alison aims to rotate the players on the team, to give all a chance to play, whilst trying to match strengths of opponents and yet giving the team a chance of…

22/08/2022 - 11:17 : Fifth Youth Camp Held

The fifth annual Youth Go Camp took place as before at Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire. This time 17 youngsters from 9 to 17, 28k to 3d, took part in the Go teaching and play and the outdoor adventure activities. As the temperature was around 30 and the skies dark blue the most popular was the raft building on the lake. The Go was taught by Alison Bexfield, Tony Atkins…

13/02/2022 - 12:07 : UK Youth Team Win to End Third

The UK Youth Go Team won against Russia B team to finish third overall in the European Youth Go Team Championship. This is an excellent result especially since our team this year had so many new faces. Russia was again champion, with France (who had beaten UK in round one) in second.

In the final round we had the slight edge on paper, but the Russia B team comprises rapidly improving U12 players where paper grades might well be out of date. We knew that…

17/01/2022 - 09:47 : UK Youth Team Win 3-2 Against Romania

The UK Youth Go Team won against Romania in round 3 of the European Youth Go Team Championship this weekend. Player of the Match goes to Edmund for stepping up at very short notice to ensure we did not default a game.

One of the newest squad members, Jin Cheng, was making his debut for the team. He had a good game on board 4, but could not quite achieve a win and lost by 11.5 points. Next to finish was Scott Cobbold, who took an easy win by resignation…

11/12/2021 - 20:39 : UK Youth Team Win Against Hungary

In round 2 of the European Youth Go Team Championship the UK team was drawn against Hungary. Our team had three of the five players making their debut appearance: Claire, Spike and Lukasz. Daniel, one of longer standing players, played a day ahead of the other games and took an easy win setting us up well for the remaining boards. Lukasz's game was a bit of a rollercoaster to watch on board 5, with a large group lacking the required number of eyes for some time…

23/11/2021 - 20:09 : Scott Cobbold Wins British Youth

This year the British Youth Go Championship returned to be played over the board and was held in Leicester. The venue was the County Bridge Club in the New Parks district of the city, a very pleasant building that was until recently a children's nursery. The midlands location attracted players from all corners: Edinburgh, Cambridge and London, Cornwall and Manchester. Access…

16/11/2021 - 10:26 : UK Youth Team Lose Against France

The UK youth team is again playing in the European Youth Go Team Championship. As usual each match is five games played on KGS with one player U20, two U16 and two U12. Team manager Alison Bexfield made up the team following the selection tournament, including seven new team members, as announced in the November Youth Go News and listed on our EYGTC page. Alison aims to rotate the…

21/08/2021 - 11:28 : Youth Camp Back After Year Gap

The fourth residential Youth Camp took place at Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire from 16th to 19th August, after a year gap.

There were 22 young participants from age 10 to 18 and 25k to 2k. As before, it was a mixture of outdoor activities, Go games and Go teaching.

The format included Go competition each evening with a four-round tournament (…