Olivier Deme represented Ireland in the Korean Prime Minister’s Cup – managing a respectable 59th place with 2 wins. You can find results on Senseis Library. Also there is a tournament in Cork planned for the 28th and 29th of November, and the online interprovincials tournament should be starting up soon. Finally, issue 3 of [...]
The Annual General Meeting of the IGA is scheduled to take place on October the 21st at 7:30 in Larry Murphy’s. Some details of an agenda should appear here later.
This year there are plans to bring the long discontinued IGA newsletter back to life. It will either be an annual or bi-annual publication initially. The major element is planned to be pro reviews of games played by IGA members. As such, we would encourage you to submit any recent games from tournaments you have [...]
This year’s AGM was the longest in history, lasting almost 2 hours. You can find the full minutes here. The Korea Points Rules have been updated, and there is a new president and secretary. There is a flyer you can download for promoting Go. Members are reminded that the ladder competition ends on the 1st [...]
The AGM of the Irish Go Association will take place at 7:30pm in the Pembroke (yes, the Pembroke) on Wednesday the 29th of October. After the AGM finishes there will be a demonstration night to showcase Go Variants and other related Games. So far Joker Go, Abalone, Go Moku, Nine Men’s Morris, Shogi, Hive, Clobber [...]
Ireland failed to win the World Amateur Championship again this year. Ian managed only 52nd place with 3 wins from 8, beating Peru, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. Hopefully some games will be added shortly. You can find some photos of the event at flickr .
We are very pleased to have some visiting players from Japan. 7 members of the Ikeda Physicians Go Club are making a tour of Ireland this weekend. If you are interested in playing, there is an opportunity to meet on Saturday and Sunday in the Mount Herbert Hotel, Dublin. Contact Olivier or Noel if you [...]
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The Korean Prime Minister’s Cup was an inaugural event very similiar in character to Japan’s WAGC. 66 nations took part in the end, and they were split into 3 McMahon groups based on ability. The general feeling seemed to be this was a better system than a Swiss amongst those I talked to. Needless to [...]
Ian Davis has been participating in the 1st Korean Prime Minister Cup International Baduk Championship in Seoul, Korea over the past few days. The tournament is run along the lines of the World Amatuer Go Championship in Japan, with one representative from each qualifying country. This is Ian’s first time to represent Ireland in an [...]