Cork Go

UCC Tournament Date Announced

rorywales — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:38:35 +0000

University College Cork (UCC) will host it’s 4th open tournament on December 4th and 5th. More details here.

2010 Belfast Open

signius — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:44:04 +0000

The IGA has posted provisional details for this year’s two-day Belfast Open, taking place on the 25-26th of September.

New Venue For Cork Go Club

rorywales — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:11:50 +0000

The Cork Go Club has moved its weekly meetings to the Idle Hour pub on Albert Quay in the Cork docklands area. Meetings will occur every Tuesday night at 8:30pm. The venue is also used by the Cork Chess Club for blitz games so everyone can enjoy playing Go, Chess and Chinese Chess.

The Idle Hour is located here.

Cork Go Facebook Group

signius — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:57:27 +0000

In an effort to increase exposure for Go here in Cork, Stephan has set up a group for the Cork Go Club over on facebook. Hopefully it will help local players to keep in touch, as well as potentially making new or inactive players aware that there are others nearby interested in the game.

Any ideas for the promotion of Go locally are always welcomed for discussion.

UCC Go Club Tournament November 2009

signius — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:51:34 +0000

UCC’s third go tournament wrapped up yesterday. A total of 18 players traversed the windswept, nigh-deserted campus and endured single-digit temperatures to participate over the weekend.

The IGA have published a brief write-up of the two-day event, as well as the results.

*** The UCC Go Club has updated the tournament page with a write-up, results, and a link to some pictures ***

UCC Go Club Tournament 2010-1

signius — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:58:28 +0000

Unable to wait a full year, the annual tournament in UCC has been brought forward a few months. The five-round event will take place on Sat 28th & Sun 29th November.

Anyone interested in attending the southernmost Go tournament in Ireland should check out the UCC Go Club site for more details.

UCC Go Club Tournament 2009

signius — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:40:11 +0000

Yesterday and today subjected Cork city to the second annual UCC Go Tournament. After a fashionably late first round on saturday morning, a slight hiccup arose when all UCC campus buildings were evacuated and closed due to ‘extreme weather conditions’. The reasoning behind this was presumably that students are far safer strolling around outside being struck down by flying slates than indoors behind layers of concrete and glass…

A hastily conjured backup plan led the 16 brave souls involved in the tournament on an epic trek (upwards of 10 minutes) to The Thirsty Scholar, where play resumed. A lighting malfunction meant rounds 2 and 3 were played by candlelight. Several players may have had their performance affected by the sudden availability of alcohol…

Day 2 was somewhat more traditional, with nary an earthquake nor plague of locusts in sight. Kudos to Stephan, Rory and the UCC Club for managing to pull off another successful event, despite the occasional Act of God being dropped on them.

Update: Results (and photos) linked here.

Go 2009

signius — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:25:34 +0000

UCC Go will be hosting their second annual tournament next month. This time round it’s a 2-day event (Sat 17th + Sun 18th), with a social gathering on the friday night. For details see their site.

For those who simply can’t restrain their competitive spirit until then, the IGA Ladder will start afresh on the 1st of January. 2008 results, and info for the upcoming 2009 tournament, can be found on the IGA site.