Belfast tournament announced
Posted by James Hutchinson on March 29th, 2017The Belfast go tournament will be taking place July 22/23rd
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.
Hello China Podcast Interview Rory & John About Go & Chinese Chess
Posted by Rory Wales on March 27th, 2017103.2 Dublin City FM’s Hello China Podcast recently interviewed Rory and John about Go and Chinese Chess, you can listen to the interview here.
Irish Pair Go Championship
Posted by Rory Wales on March 16th, 2017To celebrate 60 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Ireland there will be a celebratory Pair Go Championship held at the Japanese Embassy on Sunday May 14th. Full details are available here.
Kim Seong-jin and Chunlong Huang Win 2017 Confucius Cup
Posted by Rory Wales on March 9th, 2017A report containing results, photos, and game records is available here.
2017 Irish Confucius Cup Current Standings
Posted by Rory Wales on March 4th, 2017Galway Tournament – 6-7 May
Posted by Philippe Renaut on February 4th, 2017Hello merry go players!
Time to plan your next go tournament : why not take the opportunity to visit one of the liveliest city of Ireland!
Galway will welcome you on the – probably extremely sunny and beautiful – week-end of the 6 and 7th of May for a handicap-1 tournament in a relaxed atmosphere. All informations on this page here :
http://www.irish-go.org/galway-main-tournament-2017
TOP 8 – Week-end results
Posted by Philippe Renaut on January 29th, 2017The TOP8 who will decide of the two finalists to become Irish Champion this year has started this week-end with the first four gmaes being played between the best 8 players of the ladder.
Two players couldn’t play one of the game and have only three games in.
The atmosphere was really great, the games extremely serious and ferocious from what I could see around and eveyrbody was deeply focus, leading to extremely tense situation. A lots of games ended with big dragons dying, lots of ko fights, and many last minute change of winners. Most of the players ended in byo-yomi – which shows the implication and reading involved during the games – leading the ING clock to bring a very epic soundtrack to the games…
The results stand as below at this stage…
| SF | CR | NM | JG | PR | MT | MG | PK | TOTAL | |
| Steve Flinter | XXX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Claas Rover | 1 | XXX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Noel Mitchell | 1 | XXX | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| John Gibson | XXX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Philippe Renaut | 1 | 1 | 1 | XXX | 1 | 4 | |||
| Michael Thai | 0 | 1 | 1 | XXX | 0 | 2 | |||
| Matei Garcia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | XXX | 2 | |||
| Peter Kasko | 0 | 0 | 0 | XXX | 0 |
Irish Confucius Cup Go Tournament Registration
Posted by Rory Wales on January 27th, 2017Registration is now open for the 2017 Confucius Cup Go tournament occurring March 3rd-5th in Dublin. Full details are available here.
2017 IGA Membership & Confucius Cup Registration
Posted by Rory Wales on January 4th, 2017Happy New Year!! Just a reminder that Irish Go Association (IGA) membership for the 2017 calendar year is now due for renewal. Membership details are available on the About page here.
Also registration is now open for the 2017 Irish Confucius Cup which will occur the weekend of March 3rd-5th, details have not been finalised but the latest information is available here.
James wins Irish championship
Posted by James Hutchinson on January 2nd, 2017James Hutchinson won the 2016 Irish championship today with victory over Noel Mitchell in the final. The games can be found at the bottom of the top 8 page.