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 [...]
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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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!
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.
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.
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. [...]