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The UK youth Go teams in two different European leagues co-incidentally both played Germany last week.

In the Pandanet European Youth Go Championship the match was very even in terms of grade on most boards other than board 5 where we had a 3 grade advantage. Lukasz Kudla duly took a win on that board - although the game was not without excitement as he lost a group early on but went on to kill an extremely large group that went across the board giving him a 41 point win. Our other players had less success. Michael Mitcham-Harding lost by resignation in his game on board 1, as did Yanyi Xiong on board 2. Zoe Walters' game on board 4 also saw Zoe fight hard to successfully rescue a group that at…

I have just received the following from the EGF. There is a very tight deadline.

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Dear friends,

the EGF got knowledge about a top-tournament for students. Please help to find candidates - the deadline for nominating interested players is the 13th April 2025. All details about the 9th Annual World Collegiate WEICHI Championship 2025 you will find here: https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=471

Sorry about the late information.
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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…