From jil.segerman at gmail.com Fri Dec 12 18:42:00 2025 From: jil.segerman at gmail.com (Jil Segerman) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:42:00 +0000 Subject: [Newsletter] BGA BGA Newsletter 333 December 2025 Message-ID: FROM THE EDITOR This issue, and previous newsletters, will be found in the Newsletter Archive in the Members' Area . In Newsletters after August 2025 the images have clickable links for viewing them full size. Full-size images from earlier Newsletters may be found via the BGA All News pages . 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 Go on the Internet . *Instructions for Contributors:* 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 newsletter at britgo.org to arrive by the first day of the month. Jil Segerman NEWSBritish Youth Go Championship 2025 Alvina Kwok regained the British Youth Go Champion title at the British Youth Go Championship. Despite the previous winner Ryan Zhang being away at the KPMC in Korea, she still had to play well, as Hayes Lee, a player only recently arrived in the country, was playing well to only lose to Alvina and claim an open under-14 title. Pandanet - Netherlands In the second game of the 2025-2026 B-League season the UK team had to play Netherlands but lost 1-3. Further information here . Korea Prime Minister Cup Toby Manning and Ryan Zhang played in the KPMC in the city of Taebaek, about 4 hours east of Seoul. Toby played in the main section (57 countries represented), Ryan in the Youth section (28 countries are represented). Toby won 3 out of 7 and Ryan won 3 out of 6. EGD Insights Matt Marsh of Sheffield Go Club has launched a new website, EGD Insights , for visualising European tournament and rating trends. See this interview for further information. BGA Tournament Winners Full results here . *Northern* - Yunfang Deng *T Mark Hall Rapid* - Changhao Huang *Edinburgh Christmas* - Pan Gao ADMINBritish Go Journal 213, Autumn 2025 Congratulations to Quintin Connell for this, his first issue in his new role as Editor. 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. * Member's Access page to login * Members' Area * Journal web page * sgf files, including the problems, for this edition The three previous Journals are also available in the Members' Area. *CONTENTS* EDITORIAL LETTERS IMPRESSIONS OF WARSAW Francis Roads VOLUNTEERING AT THE EGC Paul Smith WORLD NEWS Tony Atkins UK NEWS Tony Atkins WILL AI PAIR FUTURE TOURNAMENTS? Matt Marsh FASCINATING TSUMEGO: PART FOUR Richard Hunter HUMANITY?S LAST HOPE Jake Game YOUTH NEWS Tony Atkins TOURNAMENT HISTORIES XXVI: IRISH OPEN ... Tony Atkins NIE WEIPING AND CHINESE BOOKS Simon Cohen WARSAW GO SONG Francis Roads SOLUTIONS TO THE JOURNAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATION CONTACT INFORMATION EVENTS COMING SOON *This Month:* London Open *January 2026* Lancaster *February* London Youth, Coventry, Ulster Open (Belfast), Cheshire *March* Cambridge Trigantius, European Youth (Croatia) *April* British Go Congress *May* Candidates (British Championship) and Aspirants, Not the London Open, Welsh Open (Barmouth) *June* Durham *July* European Go Congress (Turkey) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: