The Congress will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of March at the Teacher’s Club in Dublin. The highlight will be the new Confucius Cup. Full details for the 2012 Irish Go Congress are available here.
There was a high turnout of 62 of players at this year’s Irish Open. Antti Törmänen and Wei Wang tied for first place, after the SOS tiebreaker failed to separate them. Ondrej Silt and Pavol Lisy tied for third. The full results and a list of game records are available here. The Irish Rapid tournament [...]
If you can’t make it to the Open this weekend, you can still follow the games from the top board on IGS. Look for IrishOpen 6D? in the games list – there should be one game broadcast each round, and with strong amateurs including Ondrej Silt, Wei Wang, Antti Tormanen, Pavol Lisy and Willem-Koen Pomstra [...]
The 2011 Irish Go Congress will take place over the weekend of March 4th – 6th. This will be the penultimate event in the Pandanet Go European Cup, which comes to an end this year. As usual Friday will see the Rapid tournament taking place, while over Saturday and Sunday the Main tournament will take [...]
The results for both the Rapid and the Open are now up on the website. You can find photographs too.
A total of 41 players participated in the Irish Go Congress this year, prominent amongst which were a large party of invading Dutch. They couldn’t stop Ondrej Silt taking first place in the Open though, just ahead of local Corkonian Student Wei Wang. Sharing third on SOS were Willem-Koen PombeestPomstra and Willem Mallon. There was [...]
The first entries are coming in for the Congress – you can see the list of entrants here. I’d encourage anyone planning on attending to get their entry in early – you’ll save a few quid and considerably ease the job of the tournament director. See the main tournament page for full details on how [...]
Registration is now open for the Irish Go Congress, which runs from the 5th – 7th of March. There are discounted entry fees for those who register and pay before March 1st, 2010. The standard entry fee will remain set at €25 for the Open tournament, and €10 for the Rapid. The early registration discount [...]
The 2010 Irish Go Congress will be held over the weekend of 5-7th March, 2010 at the usual venue of the Teachers Club in Parnell Square. Further details will be posted on the tournament page.
44 players turned out for this year’s Irish Go Congress. In-Seong Hwang (7d) returned to Dublin to take this year’s title with a perfect 5/5 score against tough opposition. In second place was Chi Min Oh (7d), while in third place on tiebreak was Csaba Mero (6d) edging out Corkonian students Wei Wang (6d) and [...]