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: UK Youth Beat ColumbiaThe UK youth team celebrated Halloween by playing their first round match in the CCTV World Youth Amateur On-line Weiqi Tournament. Held on the Chinese server called Yike and sponsored by Chinese TV, this new event has 22 teams from around the world taking part on weekends between now and the end of the year. Our first match was against Colombia and was won two games to one. Jayden Ng lost a close game to Juan David Ramirez Jimenez, Scott Cobbold beat Alan Yeray Cortes Sarmiento by… |
: Ryan Wins UK Go Challenge FinalsThe online youth event for October, held on the afternoon of Sunday 4th, was the delayed finals of the 2019-2020 UK Go Challenge. 33 young players battled over six rounds on 13x13 boards. This time the winner was Ryan Zhang from London. Second was Cyrus Hi Him Shek from Ayrshire and third was Gene Wong from Fern Hill Primary School, on tie-break from Scott Cobbold and Lea Wong (Top Girl). David Baldwin and Caleb Monk, both 11k, notably won five games. Age group winners: |
: Second Youth Squad Training TournamentWe held our second online British youth training tournament today, reports Alison Bexfield. Any British youth player who has reached at least 20 kyu in strength is invited to these events, where we run a three round tournament online with even games to test the players in tournament conditions and see who has been improving. We expect players wanting to be selected for the British Youth Team to try to participate in these events. This was our second such event. We were missing some… |
: UK Youth Team Wins Match Against ChinaThe "Supergo" match on KGS between twelve British youth players and a team of twelve Chinese youth players continued throughout July and into August. After the strong runs of some of our early players, the Chinese last player Li Yuze won six games in a row to set up a final against our last player, Jayden Ng (British Youth Go Champion). After an exciting game, Jayden won by 11.5 to complete the match in our favour. Our congratulations go… |
: Successful July Youth Squad TournamentOn Sunday 5 July, 30 young Go players gathered online for our first online training tournament for the UK Youth Go Squad, reports Alison Bexfield. Any player who had reached 20k or better was invited (that we were aware of) and it was pleasing to see how many of the players had improved over recent months since we last saw them play. The tournament was played over three rounds during the afternoon on OGS, where we were able to have a private invitation-only group. The fact… |
: UK Youth Go Players OnlineThe meetings on OGS for youth players and parents are continuing every Sunday from 4pm to 6pm. There are junior players from 25-kyu up to 2-kyu and about half a dozen parents joining in as well. New members are very welcome, please contact Paul Smith (paul361smith at gmail.com) for details of how to join. On 1 June some of our youth players from this group joined in the Dutch youth group on OGS organised by Dave de Vos. We won 6 out of 8 games played against the Dutch junior players… |
: European Youth on in Croatia (Part 2 of 2)Part 2 of 2, of a report on the 25th European Youth Go Championship.
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: UK Youth Team Narrowly Lose to CzechiaThe UK youth team played Czechia in their fourth and final match of the 2019/20 European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC) over the week up to 15th February. Alison Bexfield, team captain, writes: On paper we were fielding a team close in strength to those of our opponents, Czechia, with the grades slightly in our favour. Board 2 was played earlier in the week and Scott Cobbold played well to win by 7.5 points in an… |
: UK Youth in Tight Match Against RomaniaThe UK youth team played Romania in their third round match of the 2019/20 European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC) over the weekend of 18th and 19th January. Alison Bexfield, team captain, writes: Romania are a strong team so we fielded our strongest players this round. The match was split over two days, Saturday and Sunday at various times. First on board 1 Yueran was up against a very strong player (a 6 dan). He… |
: UK Youth Team Smash NetherlandsAlison Bexfield, team captain, writes: The UK youth team played the Netherlands today in their second round match of the 2019/20 European Youth Go Team Championship (EYGTC). It was good to see a team from the Netherlands playing this year for the first time. When choosing the team for each match I try to pick a team which has good winning chances, but also where the grade differences between players are likely to be close so… |
