BGA Newsletter 312 March 2024

FROM THE EDITOR

This issue, and previous newsletters, are available in the Newsletter Archive in the Members' Area.

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.

Instructions for Contributors: Please use plain text not file-attachments. Keep it fairly brief, and give web-links and contact details. It's good to include pictures. If they are on the internet, send me the URL, otherwise attach the picture files to your email. Send your contribution to newsletter@britgo.org to arrive by the first day of the month.

Jil Segerman

NEWS

The full set of recent news items, including further details of some of the items shown here, are on our News Pages.

Pandanet: Match Against Spain

Our team in the Pandanet Go European Team Championship played Spain. Bruno, Scott and Des won, but Toby lost, meaning the team again won 3-1. This cemented their lead at the top of C-League.

Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championships

Congratulations to our youth team who defeated Ukraine 4-1 in the first round of the Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championships and to Scott Cobbold, Ryan Zhang, Lea Wong and Michael Mitcham-Harding who provided our 4 wins.

This new European team event has strict eligibility requirements: all players must be citizens of the country they represent and be U18. Of the 5 boards, board 4 must be female and board 5 U12.

Nine countries are participating, in two leagues with four teams in League A and 5 teams in League B. We are in League A. The four teams in League A will play each other twice with the best placed team in this League being the 1st PYGETC Champion.

ADMIN

British Congress 2024

This year's congress will be at the Holiday Inn, Warwick, from the evening of Friday 5th to Sunday 7th April. Details are available on the events calendar and the news page. You can enter for any or all of the days as you wish.

EVENTS COMING SOON

This Month: Coventry, Mind Sports Olympiad Grand Prix 9x9 (online), Cambridge Trigantius, European Youth Go Tournament (Hamburg, Germany)
April British Go Congress (Kenilworth), Rip-Off (Dublin)
May Candidates' (Leicester), Not the London Open
June Durham, Pair Go (Leicester), Tonbridge, Welsh Open (Barmouth)
July European Go Congress (Toulouse, France)
August Youth Camp, Mind Sports Olympiad (London)
September Nottingham (provisional), Swindon (provisional), Edinburgh