{"id":1542,"date":"2020-11-20T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2020-12-03T00:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:08:22","slug":"december-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"December"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking forward… December<\/strong><\/p>\n

2021 Top 8<\/em>
\nEntries are now open<\/a> for the qualifying tournament for next year’s National Championship. Deadline: December 15th<\/p>\n

Second Ireland-France Match<\/em>
\nA sequel to the recent Grenoble-Ireland match will take place on Monday 7th of December. More details on the IGA Discord.<\/p>\n

IGA Membership<\/em>
\nPhilippe would like to remind people that annual membership fees<\/a> will be due soon:
\nIf you love Irish go and want to help making it grow, please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget your membership, it is nearly a gift, as the membership is for now 10\u00e2\u201a\u00ac (yes for the whole year!). Next year we will try to have some of these special events for members only so don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget to renew or take the membership if you are new to the IGA!<\/em><\/p>\n

If you have not already joined the IGA Discord server, you can do so using this link – https:\/\/discord.com\/invite\/4vSnhjd<\/a><\/p>\n

Weekly Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IGA encourages people to play online<\/a> while all local meetups are suspended.
\nOnline<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Wednesday 20:00 on Discord, with games played on OGS\/IGS\/KGS
\nGalway<\/a> – visit their club on OGS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pandanet
\n11th PGETC<\/em>
\nAfter facing Lithuania in Round 2<\/a>, all 4 games went to Ireland. The third round is scheduled for January 26th<\/a>. Ireland’s opponent is South Africa, who have won all their games so far, putting them just a single board point ahead<\/a> at the top of the leaderboard.<\/p>\n

Looking back… November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Winter Rengo<\/em>
\nJames has organised a live online rengo tournament on KGS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IGA
\nFranco-Irish Tournament<\/em>
\nPhilippe posted an article<\/a> covering the first round of this project.<\/p>\n

Take Two<\/em>
\nThe 2nd 2020 Corona Cup<\/a> kicked off last month<\/p>\n

On the continent…<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"IGA
\nEuropean Championship<\/em>
\nThe EC 2020 Online<\/a> was won by Ilya Shikshin. The EGF have posted an interview with Ilya<\/a> and the IGF have posted an interview with Jean-Yves Papazoglou, EGF Vice-President, discussing organisation of the EC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fuseki Teaching Videos<\/em>
\nNot quite on the continent, but the London Go Centre<\/a>‘s youtube channel<\/a> has added Fuseki Insights<\/a>, a series by Mateusz Surma 2P<\/p>\n

World Amateur Women’s Go Championship<\/em>
\nAlso from the UK, Alison Bexfield has posted a small writeup on playing in this tournament<\/a><\/p>\n

EGF Academy<\/em>
\nFounded to train promising European youths, the academy is looking for additional supporters<\/a><\/p>\n

Tenuki<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"OGS
\nLive Tournaments Group<\/em>
\nA new group<\/a> for weekly\/biweekly live tournaments has been created on OGS<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hikaru
\nHikaru no Go<\/em>
\nA new live-action remake<\/a> is available on iQIYI<\/p>\n

\"AlphaGo\"
\nAlphaGo<\/em>
\nFor those stuck at home and looking for something else to stream, the full AlphaGo movie<\/a> is available on Deepmind’s youtube channel<\/p>\n

\"Murugandi
\nMurugandi Christmas Sale<\/em>
\nKim’s art prints and postcards are discounted on Etsy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking forward… December 2021 Top 8 Entries are now open for the qualifying tournament for next year’s National Championship. Deadline: December 15th Second Ireland-France Match A sequel to the recent Grenoble-Ireland match will take place on Monday 7th of December. … Continue reading →<\/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":[11,12,18,17],"tags":[28,27,20],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-ireland","category-online","category-world","tag-ai","tag-bulletin","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corkgo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}