Welcome to our website. The Irish Go Association is the official organisation for promotion of the ancient oriental game of Go in Ireland. We are members of the European Go Federation and the International Go Federation, and organise numerous club and tournament events throughout the year. The IGA promotes awareness of the game including teaching sessions and providing public infomation. Please read further here for details of member benefits and our activities.
The Irish Correspondence Championship of 2017 had a reduced field, but there was no reduction in the intensity of the competition. Finishing in first place was Irina Davis with 6 wins from 7. There was a threeway tie for second place between Noel Mitchell, Philippe Renaut, and Piotr Gawron. Read on to see some of the key games between these 4.
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The Irish Go Association is happy to tell you that the dates for the 2018 edition of the Confucius Cup have now been set. It will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of March, so please keep those days free in your diaries.
The event will be a Level B Bonus Point tournament in the EGF Grand Prix. Full details of the event for 2018 will follow in due course as all the details are finalised.
Some news items for October:
The Online Go Club is starting up again, this time its members are going to be connected via Discord.
The first club meeting should be a venue for some postmortem analysis of the PGETC round 1 games against Kazakhstan.
Kevin Farrell was representing Ireland at the 12th Korean Prime Minister’s Cup. He gave a creditable performance, picking up 2 wins over the course of 6 rounds to finish in 45th place. If I read the results table correctly, he won against Guatemala and Ecuador, but lost to Belgium, Sweden, Macau, and Romania. It was Yikang Zhao of China who won the event.
There are some partial game records available on the KPMC website: Macau, Sweden, Guatemala, Belgium.
No photos available yet.
Hopefully Kevin can add more detail later!
A quick newsflash on some international topics. The Korean Prime Minister’s Cup will be starting on the 11th of September, Ireland are represented by Kevin Farrell. As in previous years, you can probably watch games live on the WBaduk server. The European Team Championships are also starting later this month on IGS.
Oh, and don’t forget about the Cork Tournament next month (25-26 November)
Weekly Meetings (last update 7 Oct 2018)
Galway – Tuesday 20:00 in the Black Gate
Dublin – Wednesday 20:30 in Toners
Online – Thursday 20:00-22:00 on OGS
Stillorgan – Sunday 14:00-18:00 at PingZone, St Benildus College
Thanks to the Japanese Ambassador and Cultural Deparment for hosting Go events in the embassy to mark the 60th anniversary of
Japan/Ireland diplomatic relations.
Pair Go 1st Rachel Plomp & Matei Garcia
2nd Naomi O’Dhea & John Gibson
Rengo 1st Chris Rafferty & John Courtney
2nd Geoffrey Crespino & Patrick Burke
The prizes were presented by the President of the World Pair Go Association Koichiro Matsuura.
This week-end was an incredible sunny setting for our tournament in Galway, and we were delighted to host 15 players from all over Europe!
Sweden, Scotland, Spain, UK, that was amazing to see people coming from this far to join our little tournament and the atmosphere was definitely here for some nice fights on the board. With a range of level from 3D to 15k, the group was split into two categories to avoid heavy handicap and we can say that all the games up to the end saw heavy fighting, with at least two games finishing on a 0.5pts victory!
The winner of the tournament in the second category (<7k) is Jan from Galway go club and the winner of the tournament in the first category is Tom from Cork go club with an impressive 5 wins in a row. He takes the handmade and soon to be famous GGG – Galway Go Glub trophy, made of old millenary celtic bog wood, to Cork and the trophy will be challenged next year by plenty of European players ready to take it to their homeland!
You can see below the results and some pictures of all the great crowd!
Thank you all for making this tournament a success, and thank you to the incredible Galway go team for all being there, so active, smiling and supportive in the organisation! See you next year!
Galway Go Tournament 2017
| 1 | 1 | Shanahan Thomas | 4K | IE | Cork | 5 | 4+/w0 | 2+/b2 | 12+/w2 | 3+/b4 | 5+/b4 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | Garcia Matei | 1K | IE | Dubl | 4 | 6+/b1 | 1-/w2 | 4+/w3 | 5+/b3 | 7+/w0 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 3 | Renaut Philippe | 2D | IE | Galw | 3 | 5-/w0 | 6+/b0 | 7+/w1 | 1-/w4 | 4+/w6 | 1 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 4 | Collins Peter | 4K | UK | Bris | 2 | 1-/b0 | 10+/w0 | 2-/b3 | 12+/w0 | 3-/b6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5 | 5 | Wen George | 3D | UK | Belf | 2 | 3+/b0 | 7+/w2 | 6-/w3 | 2-/w3 | 1-/w4 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 6 | Hillarp Tiger | 1D | SE | Mal | 2 | 2-/w1 | 3-/w0 | 5+/b3 | 7-/b0 | 9+/w6 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7 | 7 | Roever Claas | 1K | IE | Galw | 2 | 0+ | 5-/b2 | 3-/b1 | 6+/w0 | 2-/b0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 8 | van Haaren Jan | 14K | IE | Galw | 4 | 17+/w0 | 13+/b1 | 0+ | 9+/b5 | 10-/b5 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 9 | 9 | Kong Tom | 8K | IE | Gal | 3 | 11+/w0 | 14+/b0 | 10+/b0 | 8-/w5 | 6-/b6 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 10 | 10 | Colas Rocher | 6K | ES | Zara | 3 | 12+/b0 | 4-/b0 | 9-/w0 | 14+/w2 | 8+/w5 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 11 | 11 | Farrell Kevin | 9K | IE | Galw | 3 | 9-/b0 | 12-/b2 | 17+/w5 | 15+/b0 | 13+/w2 | 2 | 3 | ||
| 12 | 12 | Daniel Roger_J_N | 7K | UK | CLon | 2 | 10-/w0 | 11+/w2 | 1-/b2 | 4-/b0 | 15+/w3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Cater Arthur | 12K | IE | Dubl | 2 | 15+/w0 | 8-/w1 | 16+/b1 | 17-/w4 | 11-/b2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 14 | Brennan Richard | 10K | IE | Galw | 2 | 16+/b0 | 9-/w0 | 15-/w1 | 10-/b2 | 17+/w5 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 15 | 15 | Palmer Roy | 11K | IE | Galw | 2 | 13-/b0 | 17+/w3 | 14+/b1 | 11-/w0 | 12-/b3 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 16 | 16 | Renaut Michele | 10K | IE | Galw | 2 | 14-/w0 | 0+ | 13-/w1 | 0+ | 0- | 2 | 2 | ||
| 17 | 17 | Plomp Rachel | 15K | IE | Dubl | 1 | 8-/b0 | 15-/b3 | 11-/b5 | 13+/b4 | 14-/b5 | 2 | 1 |
If interested, please contact John Gibson for details of the event on Sunday May 14th.
The Belfast go tournament will be taking place July 22/23rd