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 Top 8 Tournament will be held on the weekend of January 28-29th at the Ballsbridge Hotel, Pembroke Road, Dublin 4.
The Irish Go Association’s AGM will take place on the Saturday January at 5pm after the last round of the Top 8 tournament.
Still no comments about us finally stopping to post our games ? OK, I go on ;-)!
Strange game today, with a few bad moves in hte beginning by James and then suddenly a brilliant sequence that gave him a big early lead but unfortunately, byo-yomi was already on and Philippe managed to get back into the game by triggering a whole fight and finally capturing a big group.
As usual very enjoyable game (well at least for us)!
James & Philippe
A new game on line with comments!
Heavy fight all over the game with big balance between territory and a lot of life-and-death situation all over the board. But guess what… we managed to take this game to the end and count, which is quite exceptionnal for us! Enjoy!
james & philippe
A new game on line with comments!
In the end, a big dragon died, but not before trying to sneak around the edges…
james & philippe
I know you all love to work your go, so here is a small tesuji problem I have just seen tonight played at the USGO Cotsen Open between two high dan – pro level players.
It is black to play and his situation seems quite bad with two stones nearly dead at D14 and D15, but… he had a tesuji in mind before he launched the whole sequence that white totally overlooked. Can you see it ?
(you can click to get the image bigger)
Good search!
Philippe
We are pleased to announce The Cork Go Tournament of 2016 – 3rd- 4th of December. Full details available here.
Hello all,
our exciting-working sessions go on and the least we can say is that each game is different from the previous one.
This time for a change, Philippe took an early lead in the overall balance with James making too many weak groups.
There was a lot of things going on and this is a good game to discover the use of aji with a single dead stone coming to life at the very end.
Enjoy this new game and see you soon!
james & philippe
New game is online!
Plenty of nice fights here! With an audacious start by James leaving Joseki move for an overall white influence, ending in a big fight for points all over the board.
Enjoy!
james & philippe
Ireland’s largest Go and Chinese Chess tournament, The Confucius Cup, will occur next year the weekend of March 3rd-5th 2017. More details to follow soon.
New game is online!
A very interesting game to study overall balance.
The flow of the game kept shifting with very difficult positional analysis (at least at our level, may be a 5d would find it quite easy!) and everything was determined about who felt ahead and who played more agressively, a feeling that kept changing move after move.
Enjoy the comments and see you next week!
james & philippe