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Welcome to the Irish Go Association (IGA) website. Learn about the ancient game of Go (aka Baduk or WeiQi) and find out where you can join one of our clubs throughout Ireland. Be sure to check out the IGA Discord channel where you can meet our community, talk about Go and organise activities online.

Clubs

Belfast — every other Monday from 18.30, Northern Lights (Ormeau Road)

Dublin — NEW: Mondays 7pm - 10pm in Board, 29 Clanbrassil Street Upper

Lisburn — Saturdays, 10am — Facebook

Galway — Wednesdays, 7pm, McSwiggan's

Tournaments & Events

Smithfield Special
26th May, Workday, Dublin 7

Confucius Cup
20th–22nd September, UCD, Dublin

Latest News

Irish Summer Go Cup – Round 10

Irish Summer Cup is reaching the end, this was the last round before the Semi-Finals! Two teams had only one player left, ANI with James and ChoChiHun with me (Philippe) and had no other choices but to win to keep their team in the Cup.
I started on Monday with a game against Stephen. The game…

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Irish Summer Go Cup – Round 9

High level games again this week with James against Peter and Kevin against Alex.
Both games were very tight even during middle games and decision was very late to arrive.
In James vs Peter game, James took early cash through a skillful attack but Peter managed to create some weak groups to attack and slowly came back….

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Irish Summer Go Cup – Round 8

Our Round 8 review is here!
These are back to wall games now.
James as the last player of his team continues to maintain ANI’s hope alive after a new victory against Piotr from team Chochihun. The game was very balanced with James taking a clear lead but blackpete slowly coming back into the game by attacking…

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Irish Summer Go Cup – Round 7

Round 7 took place on two days, Monday and Tuesday.
First blood came from James, the last Jedi of ANI team who beat Eoghan in a very interesting game. It seems Eoghan had the impression that the game was really over when in fact AI analysis seem to show that the game was quite close even…

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Irish Summer Go Cup – Round 6

And here it comes, the round 6 of the Cup with two very tense games.
On Board 1 Niallgo was fighting to extend his winning streak from 3 to 4 games in a row. The game started very well for him with an attack on the left side of the board but White ended up alive…

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