Alvina Kwok regained the British Youth Go Champion title at the British Youth Go Championship. Despite the previous winner Ryan Zhang being away at the KPMC in Korea, she still had to play well, as Hayes Lee, a player only recently arrived in the country, was playing well to only lose to Alvina and claim an open under-14 title.

Having recently been togther at the youth team tournament in China (with Lukasz Kudla), Toby Manning and Ryan Zhang met up again in Korea for the Korea Prime Minister Cup (KPMC). The event was held in mountainous Taebaek and guest of honour was Lee Sedol 9p.

For the first time ever the KPMC had an event for players aged under 16, hence why Ryan was present. A Pair Go event was held with a senior partnering with a junior to celebrate this.

We took part in the 3rd Quzhou Lanke Youth International Child Friendly Amateur Weiqi Tournament. This is for teams of 3; we only had 2 players, Ryan Zhang 3d and Lukasz Kudla 5k who were able (and qualified) to play, so we recruited a strong Romanian youth, Dragos Boldeanu to make up the team entitled "UK International".

The 20 teams played a 7-round unseeded Swiss. Consequentially there were many mismatched games.

In the first game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the team had to play newly demoted Sweden. The match ended a draw which is a good result against a strong country. This placed the team sixth, behind Sweden and the four winning teams of that round: South Africa, Ireland, Belgium and Croatia. The next match is on 18th November against Netherlands.

League Page with game records

Durham Go Club was excited to host the 2025 European Student Go Championship. The weekend started with cultural events, beginning with a tour of Durham's UNESCO World Heritage Site - including the 900 year old Cathedral and Castle. Guests then enjoyed an evening in a typical British pub, with the opportunity to play Go and meet some of the Durham student players.

If you're not able to make it to the 2025 European Student Go Championship in Durham, on 11th and 12th October, there are several ways to follow along at home!

• The top boards will be streamed to YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@durhamgoclub2358

• Rounds 3 (14:30 BST) and 5 (12:45 BST) will also have a live commentary with Mateusz Surma (3p) on Twitch - https://twitch.tv/europeangofederation

37 players enjoyed the 13th Nottingham tournament, held on Sept 6th. The venue for the second time was a pair of church halls in Lady Bay, Nottingham, which is fast becoming a favourite Go venue, the British pairs being held there this year too. It provides a light and airy hall for reviewing and socialising, as well as the playing hall, and is close to food sources!

The second annual Newcastle Go Tournament took place at Newcastle University’s Urban Sciences Building on 30–31 August, with 23 players ranging from 5 dan to 25 kyu taking part.

Xuanqi Cui (5d) emerged as the overall winner with five straight victories. He received the impressive trophy – an ornamental 9×9 goban containing a fully functional 19×19 set – designed and crafted by Newcastle Go Club member Robert Manders (14k).

The 29th Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) took place in its regular venue of the JW3 centre in London. As usual many games fans from around the world came to play a very varied list of games and compete to be Pentamind Champion (Natasha Regan was the Women's Pentamind runner up). Details of all MSO results are on the MSO Database.