[Newsletter] BGA Newsletter 310 January 2024 Primary tabs

[Jil Segerman]

FROM THE EDITOR

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Jil Segerman
NEWS

The full set of recent news items, including further details of some of the
items shown here, are on our News Pages <http://britgo.org/news>.
49th London Open

The main event, the London Open, was played over the last four days of the
year at the London Go Centre, attracting several players from mainland
Europe. Resident pro Catalin Taranu gave lectures and game analysis
sessions.

<https://britgo.org/files/2023/logc23winner.jpg>

Winner of the 84-player London Open was Yue Wen (7d), shown here flanked by
second placed Yicheng Xiao (7d, left) and third placed Mingyuan Sun (7d,
right).

Michael Cheung 4D, was first below the bar and also the strongest British
player so was awarded the David Ward Cup; second below the bar was Linghan
Wang, 4D, 3rd below was Wai Yi Chung 4D.

Prizes were also awarded to the best SDKs Kam Chuen Leung (1k), Steffen
Mazanek (1k) and Bjorn Eurenius (2k), and best DDKs Egor Dunaev (11k) who
won all seven, Joe Monk (12k) and Mei Wang (12k). Maxim Dunaev (8k) also
did well winning all seven and Jonathan Decembry (7k) won six.

The Friday night Pairs tournament was won by Yue Wen playing with his
brother Qi Wen. Qi Wen also won the Saturday night Lightning.

See the London Go Centre YouTube Channel
<https://www.youtube.com/c/LondonGoCentre> for game records and other
material.
7th European Grand Prix Finale

<https://britgo.org/files/2023/eurofinale23.jpg>The 7th European Grand Prix
Finale was held alongside the London Open at the London Go Centre on the
weekend of 28th-31st December.

The ten top players were split initially into two groups. The UK's Damen
Woo (shown here against Mateusz Surma with game broadcaster Tony Claasen)
won his group unbeaten, as did Lukas Podpera in the other. In the final
knockout games, Cornel Burzo was the overall winner.
33rd International Amateur Pair Go Championship

<https://britgo.org/files/2023/iapgc23.jpg>Joanne Leung and Bruno
Poltronieri represented the UK in the 33rd IAPGC in Tokyo. They won 2 out
of 5 games, and were one of the pairs chosen to receive a Best Dressed
Prize. Tournament winners were Chen Si and Wang Chen from China. Full
results here <https://www.pairgo.or.jp/amateur/33rd/index_e.php>.
World Amateur Go Championships

<https://britgo.org/files/2023/wagc23th.jpg>Tim Hunt (2d), from Milton
Keynes, was our representative at the World Amateur held in Shenzhen,
China, in December 2023. He defeated Chile, India and Mexico while losing
to Slovenia, Austria, Czechia and Belgium, and finished on 3/7, making him
joint 35th out of 46. The event was won by Korea (with 7/7) followed by
China (6/7). The picture shows Tim (right) playing Mexico, taken from official
photos <https://as.alltuu.com/album/1777375639/1475021404/>.
Kathleen Timmins

>From Toby Manning: " I regret to inform you that Kathleen Timmins, BGA
Membership Secretary from 1998, until 2007, has just died. She was married
to the indefatigable Brian Timmins (Membership Secretary 1985 - 1991, and
Journal Editor 1998 - 2000), who died in 2015. She was a regular attender
at Tournaments, at 13 kyu, until 2017. I remember her fondly from her time
as Membership Secretary at a time when the job was very different from
today, involving letters and phone calls rather than email."
ADMINEVENTS COMING SOON

*This Month:* London Youth
*February* Lancaster, MSO GP (online), Ulster, Oxford
*March* Cheshire (Frodsham), Cambridge Trigantius, European Youth Go
Tournament (Hamburg, Germany)
*April* British Go Congress (Kennilworth), Rip-Off (Dublin)
*May* Candidates', Not the London Open
*June* Durham, Pair Go (Leicester), Welsh Open (Barmouth)
*July* European Go Congress (Toulouse, France)
*August* Youth Camp (provisional), Mind Sports Olympiad
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