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| Des Cann, challenger for the title of British Go Champion, queues to register.
He is the tall one fourth from the left. |
Des reaches the registration desk. |
Two Go players who are not here for the Go. Left: Paul Smith.
Foreground: John McLeod. |
Left foreground: Tony Atkins. |
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Right: Bill Streeten. |
The first game of the British Championship match.
Left: Title-holder Matthew Macfadyen. Right: Challenger Des Cann |
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| The partners who run the Mind Sports Olympiad.
Left: David Levy. Right: Tony Buzan |
right: Alison Bexfield, Charles Matthews |
The display board showing the first game of the Macfadyen-Cann match |
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| Liao Xingwen (left) plays John Fairbairn ... |
... observed by a photographer ... |
... and by Tony Buzan. |
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See here for pictures from the
challenge game between Liao Xingwen and Mike Reiss's program Go4++ |
| Adam Atkinson (right) teaching Go, as he did throughout the MSO. |
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| Liao Xingwen, Liu Yajie and Tony Buzan |
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| This picture shows the size of the hall in which most of the games were played.
I understand that the adjacent hall is far larger, and may be used next year! |
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left: Tony Corfe, overall organiser and coordinator of the MSO events |
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There were many chess-players.
On the first weekend, the BGA publicity stand was just inside the main entrance,
where it attracted many of them. |
On Monday, it was moved to behind a palm tree. Maybe she is trying to find it! |
left: Des Cann. right: Matthew Macfadyen. Francis Roads records the game. |
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| The lightning Go tournament. |
Throughout the MSO fortnight, Chris Dickson, the MSO webmaster, was working eighteen-hour
days. No wonder he looks a bit manic. |
The display board showing the Macfadyen/Cann match. |
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| Jaap van den Herik, overall arbiter of all the Mind Sports events. |
Chuck Smith, MSO journalist. |
Kirsty Healey, who was in charge of all the Go events; and Chris Dickson, MSO webmaster. |
Nathanael Lutton, who was helping with the organisation. |
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| The BGA publicity desk. |
Harold Lee was playing poker. |
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| Computer Go between Chen, Zhixing (GoeMate) and Michael Reiss (Go4++). |
Another computer Go game. |
Hiroshi Yamashita receives a prize from David Levy,
not for computer Go, but for one of his other programs -
he entered programs for Go (bronze), Shogi (gold, undefeated), and Amazons (silver). |
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| Chen, Zhixing (GoeMate) plays Bruno Bouzy (Indigo) |
Publicity for the British Champion title match |
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| Francis Roads plays Liao Xingwen.
Liao has an impressive black moyo at Francis's end of the board. |
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The photographer visited Camden Lock and the Regent's Park canal. |
Later he took a boat trip on the Thames .. |
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| .. where he saw the wobbly bridge .. |
.. and the Millennium Eye. |
It was high tide when they queued to get into the Millennium Eye. |
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| Pair-Go. Guo Juan partners Jingyu Du, Alison Bexfield partners Simon Bexfield. |
Second in the back row is Sue Paterson.
Alison Bexfield and Guo Juan at the left of the front row. |
John Rickard did not play Go, but he won a prize for something. |
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| The front of the Alexandra Palace. |
The entrance hall, in which .. |
.. the BGA publicity stand can be seen behind some prizewinners. |
