The Confucius Cup, sponsored by the Confucius Institute, made front page news in Ireland. The Chinese language newspaper, the Emerald Sun, published an illustrated article on the tournament.
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20 Mar – Frontpage News
2012 Irish Go Congress Results
The 2012 Irish Go Congress occurred over the weekend with 48 players attending in sunny Dublin. Csaba Mero, 6d Hungary, won the main tournament, The 1st Confucius Cup, with a perfect 5/5 score. In second place was Guochen Xie, 6d China, who flew in from Boston for the event. Kim Ouweleen, 3d Amsterdam, came third,…
2012 Irish Go Congress Information
The Congress will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of March at the Teacher’s Club in Dublin. The highlight will be the new Confucius Cup. Full details for the 2012 Irish Go Congress are available here.
Irish Go Congress 2011 results
There was a high turnout of 62 of players at this year’s Irish Open. Antti Törmänen and Wei Wang tied for first place, after the SOS tiebreaker failed to separate them. Ondrej Silt and Pavol Lisy tied for third. The full results and a list of game records are available here. The Irish Rapid…
Irish Open – Broadcast on IGS
If you can’t make it to the Open this weekend, you can still follow the games from the top board on IGS. Look for IrishOpen 6D? in the games list – there should be one game broadcast each round, and with strong amateurs including Ondrej Silt, Wei Wang, Antti Tormanen, Pavol Lisy and Willem-Koen Pomstra…