Announcement

The Winter 2021-2022 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read in the Members' Area, with printed copies being sent out around the middle of February.

Some time ago the traditional Candidates / Challengers structure of the British Championship was changed to reduce it to just one qualifying tournament, the 'Candidates'. Sadly Covid and lockdown has meant we have not managed to use this new approach until this year. In 2021 the qualifying event was the hastily arranged British Congress at Leicester.

The eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed a recent change made to the eligibility conditions for the British Championships.

The new eligibility criteria are shown in section A5 of the Championship rules, and for the Youth Championship in section F5 on the same Eligibility Rules page.

The intent behind the changes is to:

1. Clarify the rules on eligibility, by defining it in terms of either holding a British passport, or being a resident of the UK. Exactly how we measure those criteria has also been clarified.

In their January meeting the BGA Council agreed to a significant change to the Levy system.

The new scheme has the benefit of extreme simplicity for TDs to administer, and involves them asking only
• Are you a member (or youth member) of the BGA or any other national association?
• Is this your first tournament?

In the November Council meeting, the following were agreed:

An entry form is now available, linked from the Events Calendar.

We are pleased to announce that the Coventry tournament on Nov 27th is now a firm event. Further details can be found on the tournament events calendar. An entry form for the event will be added there shortly.

The London Go Centre has started running events at its new home. It is now based at the new London MindSports Centre in Dalling Road, Hammersmith, W6 0JD.

As well as events such as tournaments, they are running friendly Go sessions, currently on Wednesdays from 19:00, and hope soon to start other activities.

The autumn 2021 edition of the BGJ is now available for members to read in the Members' Area, with printed copies being sent out later.