UK Tournament Report

London International Teams

Unfortunately Cambridge had to withdraw at short notice, so only two teams attended the spring International Teams match. As usual it was held at the Nippon Club in Piccadilly. Each team member played all the members of the other team. It was the Oriental team of Chinese and Japanese players that were the best. Their players Felix Wang and Gunji Takao won all 5 games, and they won 17 games overall. The Occidental team scored 8 and settled for second place.

The 43rd British Go Congress was held in Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh. 74 players took part in the British Open, held at the University Union building, Teviot Row House. Andrew Kay (4 dan Cambridge) won with 6/6. Jon Diamond (4 dan Silver Springs) was in second place with 5/6. Also winning 5 was local player Boris Mitrovic (8 kyu).

In this handicap event the winners were Bracknell (3/3); runners up were Maidenhead (2/3).

Players winning 3/3 were Ian Marsh, Edmund Shaw and France Ellul.

Tony Atkins won the 10x10 side tournament.

Full results

Arundel Tournament

The second Arundel Tournament was held at the football club, in the shadow of the castle. 30 players took part and the winner was Matthew Macfadyen (6 dan Leamington). Second was Matthew Cocke (4 dan Epsom) and third Alistair Wall (3 dan Wanstead). Steve Bailey (5 kyu West Surrey) and Malcolm Law (13 kyu Brighton) won 3/3 and Neil Cleverly (7 kyu Bournemouth) got a prize for winning his first 2. Xinyi Lu (5 kyu Maidenhead) won the 9x9 and the Brighton Belles were the best team.

Fife Tournament

21 players took part in the 2010 Fife Tournament, held as usual in the Age Concern Hall in Cupar. The top three players had to be separated by a tiebreak. Winner on 3 wins was David Lee (2 dan Dundee); in second was Sandy Taylor (1 dan Durham) also on 3 wins, followed by Martha McGill (3 kyu Edinburgh) on 4 wins. Also on 4 wins was Jenny Radcliffe (5 kyu Durham) and on 3 wins was Donald Spy (10 kyu Dundee).

Cambridge have won Division 1 of the BGA Online League on its first running with one round to spare, and therefore hold the newly donated GoGoD Shield .

British Youth Go Championships

The 2010 Youth Championships had 22 competitors aged from 6 to 19, with strengths from 1 kyu to 35 kyu. The library at Loughborough Grammar School served as a fine venue. Tian Ren Chen from Loughborough retained the youth champion with 5 straight wins including beating Aston's Mazhar Warraich.

Nottingham Tournament

Nottingham University hosted the 7th Nottingham after a 22 year break. 42 players took part. Winner was Alex Selby (4 dan Cambridge) despite losing his last game to Sandy Taylor (1 dan Durham). As well as Sandy, the players who won all 3 were Ben Ellis (6 kyu Leicester) and Pat Ridley (10 kyu Chester). Elliot Mintz from Nottingham University got the fighting spirit prize. The Go-word quiz was won by Ingrid Jendrzejewski and Alistair Turnbull from Cambridge.

Trigantius Tournament

This year Cambridge moved back from March to February and from the hospital to a city centre location. 46 players attend the event at St. Colomba's Church. Romanian 6 dan player Robert Mateescu, now in Cambridge, won the tournament, beating Matthew Macfadyen in the final. Matthew was equal second with Tim Hunt.

Players that won all three games were Baron Allday (1 kyu West Wales), Michael Pickles (3 kyu Norwich), Will Hornby (7 kyu Durham) and Alistair Turnbull (9 kyu Cambridge). Best Kyu Player was awarded jointly to Matt Reid (1 kyu Cambridge), Edwin Brady (2 kyu St Andrews) and Michael Pickles.

Prizes in the continuous 13x13 tournament went to Peran Truscott (17 kyu Cambridge), Langdon Truscott (20 kyu Cambridge) and Tom Smith (19 kyu Norwich).

Cheshire Tournament

Cheshire returned after a year gap for the British in Chester and ran again alongside the Frodsham Chess Tournament on 13th February. In the top group David Ward (3 dan Cambridge) was the winner, beating Sam Aitken (3 dan Warwick) in the final. In the Handicap Section, the winner on 5/5 was Justin Neeves (7 kyu Manchester). On 4/5 were Jack Ley (8 kyu Warwick) and Brian Timmins (9 kyu Shrewsbury). Jamie Taylor (5 kyu York) was the top junior winning 3/5. 28 players took part.