[Newsletter] BGA Newsletter 331 October 2025

[Jil Segerman]

FROM THE EDITOR

This issue, and previous newsletters, will be found in the Newsletter
Archive <https://britgo.org/newsletter> in the Members' Area
<https://www.britgo.org/membersonlyaccess>. 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
<https://britgo.org/allnews>.

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
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Jil Segerman
NEWSBGA Tournament Winners

Full results here <https://britgo.org/results/12months>.
*Nottingham* - Changhao Huang
*Swindon* - Changhao Huang
*Dublin* - Cornel Burzo
Ex-Pat wins US Tournament

Congratulations to Jonathan Green who became Maine Go Champion
<https://usgo.org/content.aspx?page_id=722&club_id=454497&emtid=292864150679&mtid=921619638254&ht=0>
.
World Youth Go Championships (WYGC2025)

Following his good result at the 2025 European Youth Go Championships,
Lukasz Kudla (5 kyu, Edinburgh) qualified to represent Europe in the
Under-12 section of this tournament
<https://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Tournament_Card.php?&key=W250822A&pin=19498798>held
in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in August. He really enjoyed it; his result (1
win out of 5) was expected given the strength of the competition.
Newcastle Tournament

The second annual Newcastle Go Tournament took place at Newcastle
University’s Urban Sciences Building on 30–31 August, with 23 players
ranging from 5 dan to 25 kyu taking part.

Xuanqi Cui (5d) emerged as the overall winner with five straight victories.
He received the impressive trophy – an ornamental 9×9 goban containing a
fully functional 19×19 set – designed and crafted by Newcastle Go Club
member Robert Manders (14k). Xuanqi is shown below receiving it from Tom
Coulthard.

<https://www.britgo.org/files/2025/newcastle25.jpg>

Changhao Huang (5d, UCL) and Zhan Shi (3d, Manchester) finished second and
third respectively, each taking home a Newcastle Go Club hoodie. Below the
bar, Caleb Fai (15k, Leeds) was also awarded a prize after an excellent run
of five wins. Results <https://britgo.org/results/2025/newcastle>.

The Saturday night social, held at a city centre restaurant, was well
attended. They look forward to welcoming players again at next year’s
tournament.
ADMINCall for Volunteers Next Weekend (11-12th October)

The Durham Go club is looking for volunteers to help us to transcribe some
games of the 2025 European Student Go Championship
<https://durhamgo.club/esgc2025>. Preferably we're hoping to find someone
who can transcribe the top board games onto OGS as they're played - just
sitting beside the board and playing the moves.

We'd like to hear from you if you're willing to transcribe remotely as
well, via a live video stream (in which case you could technically be
anywhere!).

We won't be able to cover your travel or accommodation, but we can cover
your meals (Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and dinner, Sunday lunch) and any
transcribers would be very welcome to join us for the various events
<https://durhamgo.club/esgc2025/#social> that are happening around the
tournament.

If you'd be able to help, please get in touch with
andrew at ambrose.thurman.org.uk or bithell.sam at gmail.com
European Go Congress, 2026

Next year's European Go Congress <https://www.egc2026.com/> is to take
place at Hacettepe University Beytepe Campus, Ankara, from Saturday 25th
July–Saturday 8th August.

The organisers have sent some further information to BGA President Colin
Williams, as summarised here:

"Unfortunately, we're waiting for the reviews and suggestions of the EGF
board regarding the Schedule. There is a request for Monday to be the free
day, rather than Wednesday. So they'll let us know their final decision and
we will take consideration of it before publishing the schedule.

We will announce our web page once it's in final stage, we are sorry for
being late for these details to be published, but we are planning to finish
it no later than mid October.

Regarding the summer temperature, Ankara has a dry weather so no humidity
there but it makes the temperature higher than Istanbul per se. Please
note, there are air conditioning in every building that we are using for
tournament purposes. Also in every decent hotel, air conditioning is a
regular thing. But please note, dormitories of Hacettepe University do not
have air conditioning units, even though dry weather makes the nights
colder, it might be challenging for visitors from northern counties as
yours. We will put all these details to our webpage at once.“
EVENTS COMING SOON

*This Month:* European Students' (Durham), Wessex (Bath)
*November:* Bar Low (London), Three Peaks (Yorkshire), British Youth
(Nottingham), Northern (Cheadle Hulme)
*December:* Edinburgh Christmas, T Mark Hall Rapid (London), London Open
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