Foreign Tournament Diary

I have just received the following from the EGF. There is a very tight deadline.

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Dear friends,

the EGF got knowledge about a top-tournament for students. Please help to find candidates - the deadline for nominating interested players is the 13th April 2025. All details about the 9th Annual World Collegiate WEICHI Championship 2025 you will find here: https://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=471

Sorry about the late information.
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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.

I am recruiting names for the UK’s team for the online European Youth Go Championships

We need a team with up to 15 players to register for the event from which we will select 5 players for any one match.

As you were informed of the Summer Go School, we will host and organise it from 26th August till 4th September 2014.

Thanks to your posting on the Summer Go Camp in your website, we have got a few applicants from Britain so far.

1) Daily Schedule the latest daily schedule of the Nihon Ki-in Summer Go Camp 2014 is at the following website: http://www.summer-go-school.info/#/planning

2) Online Registration Please be informed that now you can make online registration from the following website as well: http://www.summer-go-school.info/#/apply

We still want to seek more participants from UK.

We thank you very much in advance for your kindness.

Best regards,

Tom Urasoe

Overseas Dept.

We have just received the announcement of a very interesting tournament for students, organized by the Shanghai branch of the Ing Chang-ki Foundation. The tournament is open to any individual who is, has, or will attend University (both at the graduate and undergraduate level) in the 2014 calendar year. Exceptions can be made if the individual is taking time off from school, but is planning on continuing in the foreseeable future.

The Ing Foundation will pay for every student's: Room, board, travel within Hong Kong, tours and events planned by the Shanghai Ing foundation. The student will be responsible for their airfare to and from Hong Kong, as well as any nightlife, entertainment or souvenirs outside of the preplanned events.

The European Go Federation, the French Go Federation and the Go Seigen Club of Toulouse are happy to announce the 2014 European Student Go Championship that will be held at Balma near Toulouse, South West of France on September 27th & 28th 2014.

Our city has one of the largest number of students in France: around 100,000. It is as well a major place in Europe for Aeronautical, Space & Defense business.

All Go playing students are invited.

So far we've received more than 60 entries for these three events, but it's a little disappointing that we don't have any UK players in the Under-20 Championship yet, especially with the prize of a trip to the World Under-20 Championship in Japan.

The entries we do have for the Under-20 range from 2 dan to 6 dan in strength, so it's definitely going to be a challenging tournament for any entrant.

We'd like to see more UK players in all the events, so if you know of someone young who might like to play (there's no entry fee) please get in contact with them and persuade them to come along.

Just in case you haven't already heard:

The winner in the Under-20 category (age as at 1st January 2014) will gain a place in the GLOBIS Cup World Youth Go Championship, to be held in Japan on 8 - 11 May 2014 at the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University in Tokyo, Japan.

All expenses will be paid, with the exception of the flights.

The website for these events has now moved to www.britgo.org/eygc2014 and www.britgo.org/eygc2014/british.

The pages have been updated with more information and there are now entry forms for the EYGC and BGC online, together with the ability to pay for entry to the BGC, and a link for booking accommodation at Butlins.

Turkey seem to be our strongest opposition in League C the Pandanet European Go Team Championship.

We're playing them tonight, starting at the unusually early time of 7pm, so why don't you all come and watch on Pandanet IGS? We've managed to put out our strongest team, so cross your fingers...