<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><img src="http://britgo.org/files/bgalogos/screen_banner.jpg" width="100%" style="border:medium"><br><br></p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">FROM THE EDITOR</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">This issue, and previous newsletters, will be found in the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/newsletter" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Newsletter Archive</a><span> </span>in the<span> </span><a href="https://www.britgo.org/membersonlyaccess" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Members' Area</a>.<span> </span><span> </span><strong>New:</strong><span> </span>we are adding clickable links to the images so that they can be viewed full size. Full-size images from past Newsletters may be found via the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/allnews" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">BGA All News pages</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">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<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/gopcres/info#mail" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Go on the Internet</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><strong>Instructions for Contributors:</strong><span> </span>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 <a href="mailto:newsletter@britgo.org" target="_blank">newsletter@britgo.org</a> to arrive by the first day of the month.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Jil Segerman</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">NEWS</h4><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">BGA Tournament Winners</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Full results<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/12months" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">here</a>.<br><strong>Manchester</strong><span> </span>- Yuhang Xing<br><strong>Mind Sports Olympiad</strong><span> </span>- Bende Barcza<br><strong>Newcastle</strong><span> </span>- Xuanqi Cui</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">British Go Congress</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><a href="https://britgo.org/files/2025/bgc25.jpg" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank"><img src="https://britgo.org/files/2025/bgc25.jpg" width="50%" title="British Go Congress 2025" style="border:medium;float:left;margin:0px 1em 1em;min-width:160px;width:412.934784px"></a>The British Congress returned to Edinburgh in April 2025 after 15 years, this time hosted by the New Melville Bridge Club. Fifty-seven players, matching last year’s turnout, gathered to make up one of the strongest player fields in recent memory.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The Congress kicked off on Friday night with the traditional British Lightning Championship. Twenty-six players were split into six round-robin groups, battling fiercely for a place in the top 12 knockout bracket. Details of all match-ups<span> </span><a href="https://brackethq.com/b/06klc/" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The tough competition continued through the weekend, with the bar for the British Open set at 5d. Quan Wan (7d, Manchester) claimed the title of British Open Champion, narrowly beating Yaoling Yang. A special mention goes to Chenhe Yuan (5d), the reigning British Youth Open Champion, for his impressive victory over Dohyup Kim in the final round. Links to<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/british" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">full results</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/TqfXeQmezRyZPYMVA" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">photo gallery</a></p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Also finishing with five wins were Daniele Gentili (5k), John Armitage (9k Lancaster), and William Lindved (11k Edinburgh), each of whom bagged a giant Easter egg for their efforts. Six remaining Easter eggs were raffled off to enthusiastic applause.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Finally, for the third time running, Peikai Xue was awarded the Terry Stacey Trophy for achieving the most above-bar wins across the past year.</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The First Manchester Open</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><a href="https://britgo.org/files/2025/man25winners.jpg" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank"><img src="https://britgo.org/files/2025/man25winners.jpg" title="Manchester Winners" width="50%" style="border:medium;float:left;margin:0px 1em 1em;min-width:160px;width:412.934784px"></a>The first Manchester Open was held at the Luther King House, nestled in a peaceful, tree-lined suburb just a short distance from the vibrant heart of Manchester.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">A total of 48 players joined this inaugural event, with strengths ranging from 25k to 6d. First place went to Yuhang Xing (6d): three players Tik Wai Cheung (5d), Peikai Xue (4d) and Zhan Shi (3d) ended with identical MMS and SOSOS scores ands tied for second place.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Ezreal Yang (12k, Manchester) won a trophy and prize in the under-16 category. Also on three wins were Martin Harvey (6k, Manchester) and Caleb Tin Nam Fai (16k, Leeds). The “Furthest Traveller” award went to Kwun Yin Ng (2d), who journeyed around 200 miles from London to take part. The winners are shown in the photo above.<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/manchesteropen" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Results</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Peikai Xue, a familiar face at tournaments and winner of many trophies over the years, is sadly concluding his university studies and will be flying back to China immediately after the event. He will be fondly remembered for his contributions to the Go community.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">"It was a successful and memorable tournament — full of laughter, good games, and great company," reported organiser Yangran Zhang.</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Annual Youth Camp</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><a href="https://britgo.org/files/2025/gocamp25.jpg" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank"><img src="https://britgo.org/files/2025/gocamp25.jpg" width="50%" title="Go Camp Students" style="border:medium;float:left;margin:0px 1em 1em;min-width:160px;width:412.934784px"></a>The eighth annual youth camp was attended by six boys 5k to 20k and aged 8 to 14, three from Cambridge and three from the Oxford area. As usual the PGL centre at Caythorpe Court in Lincolnshire was the venue and as well as Go lessons and playing, the youngsters were able to enjoy giant swing, high wires, orienteering, paddle boarding, aeroball and zip wire. The Go-teachers this year were again Helen Harvey and Tony Atkins.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Winner of the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/youthcamp" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">camp handicap tournament</a><span> </span>was Jed Lau, winners of the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/youthcamppairs" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Pair Go</a><span> </span>were Jed Lau and Jin Cheng and the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/youthcamp13" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">13x13</a><span> </span>winner was also Jed Lau, joint with Jin Cheng.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Pictures of the Go and physical activities can be seen in the<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/junior/events/caythorpe2025" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Gallery</a>.</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Youngest Ever MSO Go Winner</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><a href="https://britgo.org/files/2025/bendemso25.jpg" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank"><img src="https://britgo.org/files/2025/bendemso25.jpg" width="30%" title="Bende at MSO" style="border:medium;float:left;margin:0px 1em 1em;min-width:160px;width:247.758163px"></a>The 29th Mind Sports Olympiad (MSO) took place in its regular venue of the JW3 centre in London. As usual many games fans from around the world came to play a very varied list of games and compete to be Pentamind Champion (Natasha Regan was the Women's Pentamind runner up). Details of all MSO results are on the<span> </span><a href="https://msodb.playstrategy.org/" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">MSO Database</a>.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The Go Open was held on the final day, the August Bank Holiday Monday. 16 players took part, including five juniors and two players at 25k. The Gold medal went to Bende Barcza (4d Hungary), shown above, who at just 11 became the youngest ever MSO Go medal winner. The Silver went to Paco Garcia de la Banda (2d Spain) on tie-break from Scott Cobbold (4d Cambridge Uni) who took the Bronze. The junior medals went to Benda Barcza, Chun-Yin Ng and Eden Ng. Special mention went to the two young brothers from Leeds, Caleb and Joshua Fai, who both won three in the handicap section.<span> </span><a href="https://britgo.org/results/2025/mso" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Go Open Results</a></p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">ADMIN</h4><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">2028 European Congress</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">From Colin Williams, President:</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">As mentioned in last month's Newsletter, we are likely to submit a bid at the 2026 EGF AGM to host the event in 2028.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">A planning committee has been established consisting of Alison Bexfield, Toby Manning, Matt Marsh, Alexander Rix, Francis Roads and Colin Williams.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">An initial meeting was held on September 2nd which identified a number of key actions. A meeting with the EGF President-Elect, Manja Marz, will be scheduled as soon as possible to start agreeing the organisational responsibilities for the event.</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">British Go Journal 212, Summer 2025</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The latest edition is now available as a pdf in the Members' Area on the BGA website. You will need to be logged-in as a Member to access the Members' Area and Journal files.<br>*<span> </span><span> </span><a href="http://www.britgo.org/membersonlyaccess" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Member's Access page to login</a><br>*<span> </span><span> </span><a href="http://www.britgo.org/membersarea" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Members' Area</a><br>*<span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://www.britgo.org/bgj/bgj212" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">Journal web page</a><br>*<span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://www.britgo.org/bgj/issue212" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">sgf files, including the problems, for this edition</a><br>The three previous Journals are also available in the Members' Area.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><img src="https://www.britgo.org/files/bgj/bgj212.jpg" width="30%" title="BGJ 210" style="border:1px solid black;float:left;margin:0px 1em 1em;min-width:160px;width:247.758163px"></p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><strong>CONTENTS</strong><br>EDITORIAL<br>LETTERS<br>PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Colin Williams<br>BRITISH GO CHAMPIONSHIP 2025 Damen Woo<br>WORLD NEWS Tony Atkins<br>WORLD AMATEUR GO CHAMPIONSHIP 2025 Alistair Wall<br>UK NEWS Tony Atkins<br>FASCINATING TSUMEGO: PART THREE Richard Hunter<br>YOUTH NEWS Tony Atkins<br>TOURNAMENT HISTORIES XXV: BRITISH EUROPEANS Tony Atkins<br>SOLUTIONS TO THE JOURNAL PROBLEMS<br>ASSOCIATION CONTACT INFORMATION</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Logo Competition Result</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Sam Bithell writes:</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Voting closed for the BGA's logo competition on the 31st July, and results have now been tallied and verified with the membership secretary. An anonymised version of the results is<span> </span><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/5dnznrhqjhj6wl04an9yv/Logo-Competition-Results-anonymised.xlsx?rlkey=0bj5q91adddhwz556u56two9o&st=t1ymndt3&dl=0" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">available here</a>. We would like to thank all those who entered from the start, and congratulate the shortlisted entries on their wonderful and varied designs! In the end, we received 60 votes with people ranking their choices from the shortlist from 1st to 6th, according to the<span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting" style="color:rgb(102,34,0)" target="_blank">instant-runoff voting</a><span> </span>method.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><img src="https://www.britgo.org/files/gifs/LogoCompResults.png" width="100%" title="Logo Competition Results" style="border:1px solid black"></p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">The end result is that entry number 2, by Joel Barrett, won by a healthy margin of 17 votes (38 votes against the 2nd place 21) after 3 rounds (although in the lead from round 1), congratulations to Joel!</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">We have now begun the process of redesigning various media to fit with the new logo and its aesthetic, and will be working with Joel to implement the changes according to his design. There's no fixed time limit for this, but hopefully things will take more shape in the coming months.</p><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px">Congratulations again to Joel, and thanks to all those who submitted entries and engaged with the process from the start!</p><h4 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both;font-size:15.808px;line-height:23.712px;color:rgb(18,18,18)">EVENTS COMING SOON</h4><p style="margin:0.6em 0px 1.2em;padding:0px;color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12.16px"><strong>This Month:</strong><span> </span>Nottingham, Confucius Cup (Dublin), Swindon<br><strong>October:</strong><span> </span>Sheffield, European Students' (Durham), Wessex (Bath)<br><strong>November:</strong><span> </span>Bar Low (London), Three Peaks (Yorkshire), British Youth (Nottingham), Northern (Cheadle Hulme)<br><strong>December:</strong><span> </span>Edinburgh Christmas, T Mark Hall Rapid (London), London Open</p></div>
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