Ottawa Cup Go Championship

Go, in Chinese as Weiqi, is a board game involving two players that originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago. It was considered one of the four essential arts of a cultured Chinese scholar in antiquity. Its earliest written reference dates back to the Confucian Analects. There is significant strategy involved in the game, and the number of possible games is vast (10⁷⁶¹ compared, for example, to the 10¹²⁰ possible in chess), despite its relatively simple rules. Even though Go is not as well known as Chess in the West, it still has developed a large player base in North America. (based on wikipedia)

The 7th Ottawa Cup Go Championship, organized by Ottawa Association of Chinese Canadian University Alumni (OACCUA), will be held on online Sunday, December 27, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The online games will be played on the OGS Go platform. The Cup is open to amateur Go players of all levels from all regions of Canada.

In addition, OACCUA and Ottawa Go School will jointly host the 2^nd Ottawa Youth Go Tournament – Online 2020 on the November 22. This is a Children’s Rating Competition for players under 18 years old. The players who have successfully completed the competition with good grading will receive an official Go Ranks Certificate issued by CGA Canadian Go Association (CGA)

To register Ottawa Youth Go Tournament, please go to registration page.