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2007 Top 8 Qualifier

Posted by stephen on October 17th, 2006

The IGA would like to invite you to join the Irish Top 8 Qualifiers 2006-2007. The qualifications phase will run from the 1st till the 31st of December and is opened to all IGA members. It is expected that each entrant will be asked to play around 3 or 4 games during that period (depending [...]

2006 IGA AGM

Posted by stephen on October 13th, 2006

The 2006 IGA Annual General Meeting was held in the Pembroke Inn on October 4.  The minutes of the meeting are now available for viewing.

Cork go club website

Posted by stephen on September 14th, 2006

John Doyle and co. have set up an excellent new website for the Cork go club.  Check it out, and keep up-to-date with all things Corkonian.

Irish Go Association AGM, October 4

Posted by stephen on September 14th, 2006

A notice from the IGA Secretary, Olivier Deme: Dear All, Another year has gone by and the IGA committee would like to invite all members to our AGM scheduled for Wednesday the 4th of October at 8h30PM in the Pembroke. Discussed topics will include among other things preparation of the Irish Open 2007, top 8 [...]

John Gibson, EGF Secretary

Posted by stephen on August 17th, 2006

Ireland’s own John Gibson was appointed Secretary to the European Go Federation at the recent congress in Rome.  Congratulations to John – I’m sure the job he’ll do for the EGF will be every bit as excellent as that for the IGA.

EGC Tournament calendar goodness

Posted by stephen on August 4th, 2006

The European Go Federation website does not provide an RSS feed of their calendar. To remedy that situation, I’ve created a public Google Calendar of these events, which you’re welcome to use or link to. You can also access the RSS feed of the Google Calendar version, which I’ll endeavour to keep up-to-date. As an [...]

Updated meeting details for Cork go club

Posted by stephen on July 31st, 2006

John Doyle from the Cork go club has let me know of new dates and times for the meetings of the Cork go club.  Check it out if you’re heading south and looking for some go action. I really have to get down there one of these days!

New EGF and IGF websites

Posted by stephen on July 26th, 2006

Tony Atkins of the BGA brought it to my attention recently that the European Go Federation and the International Go Federation have both updated their websites recently. Worth a look if you haven’t visited them recently.

ChiyoDad’s excellent blog

Posted by stephen on June 23rd, 2006

I came across a blog about go called ChiyoDad Learns Go recently.  It’s written by a guy who calls himself ChiyoDad, and not surprisingly is about his efforts to learn go!  Excellent stuff, and plenty of interesting content for both beginners and dan level players.  Definitely worth a look.

Go in Kyoto

Posted by stephen on June 20th, 2006

I (Steve) had the pleasure of spending a few days in Kyoto in early June following the WAGC in Sasebo. One of the things I managed was to visit a traditional Go salon. I had previously discovered that there was a go salon just around the corner from the hotel in which I was staying. [...]