BGA Newsletter 344 November 2026

FROM THE EDITOR

This issue, and previous newsletters, will be found in the Newsletter Archive in the Members' Area. In Newsletters after August 2025 the images have clickable links for viewing them full size. Full-size images from earlier Newsletters may be found via the BGA All News pages.

Contributions are always welcome, both from our members and others. We ask that they be Go-related and "newsy". The place for debate and general discussion is the BGA open mailing list Gotalk. However, an introduction to a new topic is fine in the Newsletter. A brief introduction to Gotalk, with a link for joining, is on the BGA page Go on the Internet.

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Sak Wathanasin

NEWS

Alan Thornton

Michael Charles sent us the sad news that Alan passed away on the 13th October, having succumbed to cancer after a short stay in hospital. GO was a very important part of his life, and he continued playing until he went into hospital. Alan reached the grade of 2D, and founded the Hemel Hempstead Go Club which moved to St Albans some time ago via Stevenage.

Wessex Tournament

Colin Williams sent us this report:
We had a very good turn-out at Bath for the 56th Wessex, with 41 players (including the ghost). It was especially good to have 10 double-digit kyu players attend.

The bar was set at 2 dan, and the eventual winner was local player Ruilin Hu with 3/3. Other winners with 3/3 were Paul Atwell (a long-time organiser of this event), Scott Griffiths, Clinton Yu, Jack Sage, and Kai Powell. Bristol club members can now look forward to hearing about how Paul finally beat his regular nemesis, Helen Harvey 😊

Photo: Wessex Tournament winner Ruilin Hu with Paul Atwell, long-time organiser of the event.

Following some issues with the provision of the room we may now review the location for next year’s event. Any change will be fully publicised on GoTalk and the events calendar.

ADMIN

BGA Tournament Winners

Full results here.
Confucius Cup (Dublin) - Dohyup Kim (Seoul, 1p)
Sheffield - Sizai Hao (Warwick, 5d)
Wessex (Bath) - Ruilin Hu (Bath, 4d)
Three Peaks (Ingleton) - Zhan Shi (Manchester, 3d)

EVENTS COMING SOON

This Month British Youth (Nottingham), Northern Go Tournament (Cheadle Hulme School)
December Edinburgh Christmas, T Mark Hall Rapid (London), London Open
January London Youth
February Trigantius (Cambridge)