{"id":1230,"date":"2019-03-02T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2019-03-02T16:49:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:49:34","slug":"2019-03-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/?p=1230","title":{"rendered":"2019-03 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Looking forward&#8230; March<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>2019 Irish Go Congress<\/em><br \/>\nThe Open &amp; Rapid will take place over the weekend of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/irish-go-congress-2019\/\">March 22nd-24th<\/a>. More than two dozen attendees are already registered, about a quarter being dan-level.<\/p>\n<p><em>2019 Online Interprovincials<\/em><br \/>\nTeams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/online-interprovincials\/online-interprovincials-2019\/\"> have been formed <\/a> and round 1 is currently being scheduled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weekly Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/galwaygoclub\">Galway<\/a> &#8211; Tuesday 19:30 in Mc Swiggans<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/clubs-tournaments\/dublin\/\">Dublin<\/a> &#8211; Wednesday 20:30 in Toners<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/clubs-tournaments\/online\/\">Online<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Thursday 20:00-22:00 on <a href=\"https:\/\/online-go.com\">OGS<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/213994972070977\/permalink\/917134471757020\/\">Stillorgan<\/a> &#8211; Sunday 14:00-18:00 at PingZone, St Benildus College<\/p>\n<p><em>West Cork<\/em><br \/>\nA new player in the Bantry area, Terry, is looking for other players in that region. If you are interested in getting in touch, email corkgo@gmail.com and I will pass along contact details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurogofed.org\/pics\/pandanet_logo_with_text.png\" alt=\"Pandanet Go European Team Championship\" width=\"243\" height=\"86\"><br \/>\n<em>9th PGETC<\/em><br \/>\nIreland beat Iceland, who are currently top of the table in <a href=\"https:\/\/pandanet-igs.com\/communities\/euroteamchamps\/draw\/85\">League D<\/a>, by 3 games to 1 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/pandanet-igs.com\/communities\/euroteamchamps\/rounds\/514\">6th round<\/a>.<br \/>\nOpponent in <a href=\"https:\/\/pandanet-igs.com\/communities\/euroteamchamps\/rounds\/515\">round 7<\/a> on the 26th will be Cyprus. Two rounds remain after that, in <a href=\"https:\/\/pandanet-igs.com\/communities\/euroteamchamps\/rounds\/516\">April<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/pandanet-igs.com\/communities\/euroteamchamps\/rounds\/517\">May<\/a>, with Iceland sitting out the final one. (Due to the uneven number of countries, one had to take a bye each round.)<br \/>\nThe IGA has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/2019\/02\/24\/pgetc-updates\/\">brief comment<\/a> on Ireland&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking back&#8230; February<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>2018 Final<\/em><br \/>\nThese matches have apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irish-go.org\/2019\/03\/01\/james-wins-first-game-in-2018-final\/\">just gotten started<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>2019 Irish Correspondence Tournament<\/em><br \/>\nPlay <a href=\"https:\/\/senseis.xmp.net\/?IrishCorrespondence\">continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On the continent&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Go Cards<\/em><br \/>\nWith Noord-Holland refused entry to the 2019 Online Interprovincials on geopolitical grounds, ambassador Kim of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/murugandi\">Murugandi<\/a> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/213994972070977\/permalink\/1429396013864194\/\">demanded<\/a> that Irish players purchase at least 3 sets of their new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/murugandiart\/posts\/2072834159419377?__xts__[0]=68.ARDexIQ6IzNTGLTHt7xwOtWH4cfptuZWjZqJEKTZkbAX2ER0Ux0K_BpOvlKQ_Kh5vIhlklVIRoMr5PdKCa2kaqgT55T3fCc-KBvHII_K31GW2QMun9ECmdwbqxhpSepL9I4VmnQr7GuAQzFjg9afx6S0yDB3QwXs-0bQadKDuh2UK09GXYglmDeDrO09PdQR9dllhK7OjEVPvk-DHV_aZjH78cYvkdX3njl8uEklqqCPAtCkf_g_4DAtfZ6cwRS_Xsvpx8OdnsL9WWyIIxMyq1rfqs-zrjP5g3U3y57Bauqw7LSC0fX2pwMDrP0Xw_SWIQ6l32AbKwr11wSt9JRWUM-ogg&#038;__tn__=-R\">Go-themed post cards<\/a> in order to prevent the international incident from escalating.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tenuki<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>AlphaGo Groupies<\/em><br \/>\nA chart showing daily games played on <a href=\"https:\/\/online-go.com\">OGS<\/a> in recent years, with dates for AlphaGo events highlighted.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ogs-forums.s3.amazonaws.com\/original\/2X\/5\/55f016e555fcf393c744e755e3e820f0727d501f.png\" alt=\"the surrounding game logo\" width=\"722\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking forward&#8230; March 2019 Irish Go Congress The Open &amp; Rapid will take place over the weekend of March 22nd-24th. More than two dozen attendees are already registered, about a quarter being dan-level. 2019 Online Interprovincials Teams have been formed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/?p=1230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[28,27,20],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-online","tag-ai","tag-bulletin","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}