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Link Collection Categories: General - Personal - Portals - Study - Computer - Servers - Clients - SGF Editors - Databases - Teaching - other Wikis


[1] General

[ext] Go Teaching Ladder
have your own games commented (see GoTeachingLadder for more info)
[ext] Ken Warkentyne's index
the most comprehensive go web index on the net. The list has not been updated since May 2000 though and the go commmunity is anxiously waiting for Ken to reactivate his efforts. Recently he seems to have resurrected and to be busy cleaning up the old list.
[ext] FAQ for the newsgroup rec.games.go
General information about Go on and off the internet - a good place to start your search for more Go information.
[ext] Harry Fearnley's Main Go (Baduk, WeiQi/Wei-Ch'i, Igo) Page
Another comprehensive Go web index on the Internet.
[ext] Waller's Go/Baduk/Wieqi Books
We specialize in Korean Go Books with over 100 titles available, there are many Lee Chang Ho titles. A majority are in Korean text.
[ext] Pronounciation of Japanese Igo Terms
Pronunciation of about 200 Japanese go terms, in MP3 format.
[ext] Go: Life Itself
Very nice introductory article (history, philosphy, rules, ...)

[2] Personal

[ext] The GO Treasure Chest
tournament reports, photos, result lists, commented amateur games, articles and lots of other interesting infos by the BIG M
[ext] The Art of Go
A small collection of digital art (made by Scartol) relating to Go.

[3] Portals

[ext] Gobase.Org
Tons of tournament news, game records, articles, player biographies, go dictionaries, links and so on. Also offers a very educational replay feature where you can guess the next move in a professional game and get some feedback on how close to the right spot you are.
[ext] shy's go page
Lots of articles about Go, traditional Chinese only (BIG5 code). International games with chinese comments, such as Ing Cup, LG Cup.
[ext] Mind Sports Olympiad [ext] (MSO)
Has megabytes of info on chess, shogi, scrabble, etc., and of course [ext] go. Historical articles from John Fairbairn, lessons from Charles Matthews, old tournament reports, game records, biographic thumbnails of current pros, and more... it's a good thing. The news on international tournaments has been discontinued as of April 2001.
[ext] Momoyama go news
Information about the current events in the world of Big Title Go may be found out at Momoyama go news.

[4] Study

[ext] Tsume-Flash
A Flash frontend for a growing database of Go Problems. Complete with an attractive playing interface, the ability to add/edit problems, and quick access to all problems through a sorted index. Come take a look.Requires Flash Player 6
On Yi Ch'ang-ho's website - [ext] Java applet with Life and death problems
You can use the java applet and try to solve the problems even without understanding korean. Select a problem on the list and click on the first button to the left for starting. When you think you have found the solution, click on the board and if the stone appears, you have found the correct move. If you can't find it, click on the third button.
[ext] Daily Yomiuri
A large (150) collection of columns about Go. The level varies from absolute beginner to intermediate. Mostly with problems. Especially check the links at the bottom for the older articles (they're currently explaining the EndGame and MutualDamage)
[ext] uliGo
A program to practice solving life&death and tesuji problems. Some problems are available; you can also use your own problems (in SGF format).
[ext] kombilo
Kombilo can search for (both wholeboard or smaller) patterns in the .sgf-game collections you have on your hard disk. Very useful for studying, or just to browse throught your game collection looking for an interesting fuseki. It has also been discussed here on SL.
[ext] GoProblems.com
More than 1000 well organized life-and-death, joseki, fuseki, endgame, etc. problems for you to solve, and you can contribute your own stumpers. Uses java.
[ext] Samarkand GameBase
Janice Kim says "These games are the ones that I myself review and are focused on Korean internal matches and international professional games." Uses java; has a few known technical glitches. TakeNGive's criticism: the games lack date information / event information. ([ext] skip Janice's introduction)
[ext] Friday Night Files of Jan van Rongen
1300 games of Cho Chikun; 100 games of Japanese professional Yamashita Keigo; other study material.

[5] Computer Go

[ext] Michael Reiss' page
probably the best informed and most recently updated list of computer go resources. (18 May 2002).
[ext] The Computer Go Ladder
[ext] Computer Go Bibliography
[ext] OpenGo
A workbench for programmers interested in the challenges of writing smart go opponents. Includes some built-in Go opponents for users to play, and has support for pipe and modem players.
[ext] Intelligent Go Foundation
The Intelligent Go Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of computer go.
[ext] SmartGo
A Go-playing program and SGF editor. The web site includes information on [ext] computer Go and on [ext] SmartGo implementation details.
[ext] David Mechner's page
[ext] The Burmeister-Wiles article

See also Go Playing Programs and Computer Go

[6] Go servers

See Go Servers for more information

[7] Go clients

[ext] CGoban2
SGF editor / viewer and Go client for Kiseido Go Server. Robust, closed source freeware, Java, superior teaching support.
[ext] gGo
Java client and SGF editor, supports GTP (supersedes qGo, open source, incompatible with NNGS to some degree)
[ext] Igc2000
Another IGS/NNGS client.
[ext] Jago
Telnet Go client & SGF viewer / editor; IGS client; Robust; GPL free and open source; uses Java; supports XML. (See also JagoClient.)
[ext] TanGo
Client for Windows (written in Visual Basic, open source). Also contain a SGF viewer/GNU Go player/NNGS Server
[ext] RubyGo
Client (written in Ruby, open source)
[ext] qigc
Client (using the qt library, open source)
[ext] SDL Go
Client that communicates with GNU Go through its ascii interface, supports GTP too
[ext] Xgospel
X-Window client for Go servers, no GNU Go support (open source)
[ext] Ergo
Java client for Go servers (open source)
[ext] Gcperl
Perl module client (supersedes Tkgc, open source)
[ext] Vizigo
Client for Linux and Windows (open source)
[ext] KGO
Client (open source)
[ext] Goban
Mac OS X client for the Go servers and local network games, graphical user interface to GNU Go, SGF viewer
[ext] Panda EGG
Windows-based Graphic client for IGS. Saves games in UGF format rather than SGF.

[8] SGF Editors

See Go Editing Programs. By the way, most of the Go clients are also SGF editors.

[9] Databases

[ext] GoGoD
Go encyclopaedia on CD. Features massive and most detailed and accurate database of games covering the entire history of go. Complete collections of players like Shusaku and Go Seigen. Comes with very large package of text material giving info on all tournaments and players, including John Fairbairn's 3000-entries Names Dictionary used as a basis for many entries on SL. Commercial.
Kombilo
Database and SGF editor (Linux, Win, Mac; open source). Includes pattern search, variation editing, and "guess next move" features. Included free on the GoGoD CD.
[ext] MasterGo
Search engine with a huge database of pro games, running on Windows. Commercial.
[ext] BIgo Assistant
Actuall big full featured Go Games/Fuseki/Joseki DataBase? with the set of more than 700 000 professional and strong ama players games (Full version) and 25 000 games (Tiny version). Windows 98/ME/NT/200/XP. Commercial.

[10] Teaching

[ext] How to play Go
Download/view leaflet for complete beginners on how to play Go.
[ext] How To Play Go
Another tutorial for beginners.
[ext] Interactive Way to Go
Interactive Java tutorial, begins at the "50 kyu" level; available in many languages, including Esperanto.

[11] Other Wikis

[ext] "Club de Go"
A swiki in Spanish for Iberoamerican Go players.
TourBusStop
Visit other wikis (not necessarily related to Go)


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