At an EGM yesterday the EGF formally ratified Turkey as the hosts for the 2026 EGC.

The event will be 25th July to 8th August, at Ankara Hacettepe University, Tunçalp Özgen Congress and Cultural Center.

Ankara is home to Türkiye’s first Go club (1988) and the founding location of the Türkiye Go Association (1995), which still operates its headquarters in the city. The university offers an official, academic-credit Go course for students.

As usual full details will appear in due course on the EGF calendar.

In case people are interested I have just been told of a new thriller-genre novel that uses the game of Go as a high level structuring mechanism. The name of the book is "The Aji of Dead Stones" and it can be found on amazon.co.uk. The writer is apparently a lapsed Go player using a pseudonym.

The fourth match of the B-League season, on 7th Jaunary, was a draw against Italy who are at the top of the table. A good job by our winners Damen and Jake! That kept the team in seventh, in the bottom half of the table but in the safe zone. Round 5 will be on 4th February against Lithuania.

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Damen Woo wrote about his game against Alessandro Pace: It started with a good opening, I got a decent lead and kept it until the end.

All the games in the UK team's third match ended in resignation. Unfortunately it was three-one in Croatia's favour, with Bruno's long game ending with him being the only UK winner. This loss moved the team down from third to seventh in the B-League. Italy won again (against Finland) to stay at the top, with Netherlands beating Lithuania to take second place.

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The Autumn 2024 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read in the Members' Area, with printed copies being sent out to those that receive them.

Congratulations to Ryan Zhang (3d) who was Under-12 champion and became British Youth Go Champion for the first time. However he was not the best of the 37 players as Chenhe Yuan (5d), just arrived in the UK, won all six games to take the Open title.

The UK team played well against a very strong Netherlands team in the second match of the season, but lost three games to one, with Damen Woo being the only winner and Bruno's long game ending with him half a point behind. This meant losing the top position in the B-League earned in round one.

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The UK team was promoted to the B-League of the Pandanet Go European Team Championship and ended round one in first position! They played Austria on Tuesday 15th October and won four games to nil, despite Austria having the strong player Victor Lin on board one. Second placed is Croatia who beat Netherlands despite a triple ko in one game. Italy beat Serbia to take third, earning penalty points for a no-show on board one. The other matches were drawn.

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In the recent Korean Prime Minister's Cup our representative Damen Ho-yeung Woo had a great result, with 5 wins from 7 games and finishing 14th overall.

The full results can be see at https://kpmc.kbaduk.or.kr/us/2024/result

On the weekend of 14th and 15th September 2024, Yaoling Yang beat Ho-Yeung (Damen) Woo 2-0 to win his first British Go Championship!