Irish go has a long history of friendly events and friendly competition with French clubs, some of the stories and results of previous franco-irish club tournaments can be found in the archives of this website. With the current Irish champion being a French national, it was natural to organise an auto-destructive clash between…

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Results The round-robin tournaments in divisions A and B concluded in May and June respectively, and I apologise for taking so long to congratulate the winners! The winner of Division A was Piotr Gawron with 3/4 wins and the winner of Division B was Larion Syrotkin with 5/7 wins. I expect an even tougher fight…

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Arrival at the Taebaek Hotel in Korea for the 19th KPMC So you must be the strongest player in Ireland… Yeah about that… I honestly feel quite lucky to have been the representative at both the 44th World Amateur Go Championship in Tokyo and the 19th Korea Prime Minister Cup in Taebaek Korea. There…

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I’m excited to announce the launch of the Dublin Go League! This will be a fantastic opportunity for the Go enthusiasts to compete in an EGF Class A tournament, held in person, following the same tournament format as the Confucius Cup, but with longer time frames — each round lasting 2 weeks. Tournament Details Read More

For the second year in a row, Mateusz Surma 3p faced a decisive fifth-round match in the Confucius Cup. Last year he stumbled, losing the final game to Kim Seongjin 8d, to share second place with Lu Xinqun. This year, following an upset loss to Habu Koichiro 5d in the second round, Mateusz drew an…

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