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I am happy to announce that Craig Maclean from the Durham club has volunteered for the above role. He comes highly recommended, having done a similar job for the Durham club for some time now. In particular their use of social media has resulted in many more students returning to the club after their first visit.

Craig will be settling into the role over the next few months, and will be looking to issue a regular stream of informative social media content. Exactly how this will operate will be explained in subsequent communications.

We wish him every success.

The 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held online by ZOOM at 20:00 on Thursday 22nd May 2025. A meeting link will be issued shortly before the meeting.

As well as presenting the Accounts and the Annual Report, the AGM will include all the necessary elections for Officers and Directors as set out in the Company Articles, and for members of the Disputes Panel as per the Code of Conduct. Motions may be brought both by the Board and by members.

Nominations for Officer and Director positions must be received by the BGA Secretary secretary@britgo.org on or before Thursday April 10th 2025.

Motions from members to be brought forward for the meeting must be received by the…

The seventh match of the B-League season, on 18th March, was against Serbia. There were wins by resignation for Jake Game, Ryan Zhang and Bruno Poltronieri, but Scott Cobbold lost by 3.5. This win left the team safely mid table. Round 8 will be on 15th April gainst Finland.

League Page with game records

Scott Cobbold wrote about his game against Milos Bojanic, the last to finish: After playing some suspicious sequences in the bottom right corner I gained the advantage by turning some dead stones into a ko for his and my stones. However, subsequently I made some simple mistakes, gradually losing my advantage, and ended up losing by 3.5 points.

Jake Game wrote…

13 year old Chinese trainee professional Yue Wen - shown here - won Cambridge’s 2025 Trigantius Tournament, held in perfect spring sunshine in Cambridge’s Mill Road district. The next five top places all went to Chinese players too. Clarence Qin won the juniors and novices 13x13 side event. Other prizes for 3/3 wins went to Matthew Reid (Cambridge 1k), Xiangyu Ge (Cambridge 3k), Florian Pein (Lancaster 4k), Owen Ambridge (Cambridge 5K) and Miroslav Olsok (Cambridge 10k). A total of 76 players attended the main event, making the tournament by a whisker the most popular tournament in the UK within the last year.

Quan Wan (7d Manchester) - shown here with organiser Pat Rdley - won the 25th edition of the Cheshire, which was played on 1st March at Frodsham Community Centre. It was a close contest for the other places: Peikai Xue (4d UCL) took second place on tie-break from Yifan Bao (5d) and Zhan Shi (3d Manchester), who were equal third. Below the bar, Brook Roberts (2k London City), Lauren Hindmarch (8k Lancaster), Olivia Jennison (20k Cheadle Hulme School), and primary school children Kin Hei Fong (32k Manchester) and Joshua Sing Ching Fai (23k) won prizes for winning all three of their games. There were…