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Buying Equipment in Europe
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Austria
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Columbus has a few different go sets (19x19 board with bowls and stones, or 9x9 board with bowls and stones). The sets are of nice quality but not too expensive (pictures on the website). They don't sell go books. Material can be ordered in the web-shop or via mail.
- The
Austrian Go Foundation also sells equipment.
Belgium
- Brussels:
Marchand
- Brugge: De krokodil, Sint-Jakobsstraat 47
- Gent:
De Denksportkampioen, Keizer Karelstraat 21a
- Aalst: De Lieveling, Kattestraat 54
- Antwerpen: Adriaensen, Cuperusstraat 7-8
- Leuven: Speelgoed Mertens, Diestsesteenweg 61-63
- Namur: Maison la Hotte, Rue de Bruxelles 25
- Mons: Pleine lune, Rue des Fripiers 13
- Providers in the provinces of Liège, Luxemburg and Limburg are currently unknown with the Belgian Federation. Suggestions welcome.
Finland
Gaimport is a shop in the Helsinki region that sells everything needed to play go, including books about go.
France
Germany
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Brett und Stein sells nothing but GO material, they have a nice web page and good prices.
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Daiki has some reasonable priced boards, stones, bowls and complete sets.
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Hebsacker sells books, stones, boards, bowls and sets. They have an online shop, but with very short and incomplete descriptions
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Rittel Verlag Hamburg has 3 sets for sale in their online shop
Netherlands
- Schaak- en Go-winkel 'het Paard' - Shop in Amsterdam carrying Go sets, programs, and a lot of books. Also has chess stuff and puzzles etcetera. The website is
here. It even has a page at Sensei's!
- Game shops 'van der Meijden' and 'De Joker' in Utrecht both have a small selection of Go sets. No books though, and no websites either.
- Book shop 'van der Galie', also in Utrecht, occasionally has a few second-hand Go books (in the basement). Rumor has it that an ex-employee of 'het Paard' works there now and is going to throw some chess books out in favor of Go books :-)
- The Go Club Utrecht sells the more popular stock of 'het Paard' at a 10% discount. However, you have to be a member...
- Game shop 'de Wirwar' in Groningen has a small selection of books and boards.
Poland
Spain
- Barcelona:
http://www.gigamesh.com sells everything you might need and accept orders by mail
- Girona: Wood sets (wooden stones as well) in a toy store by plaça constitució called zeppelin. No go books/glass stones to be found in the city
Sweden
Switzerland
- The
Zurich Go Club sells go equipment if you go to their meeting place. They have both books and equipment, including some second hand stuff from the club if you're short of funds. Their collection of books is nice.
United Kingdom
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BGA members can purchase books and equipment from the BGA Book Seller by mail order or at most tournaments. (And anyone can become a BGA member.)
- There is also a
list of other suppliers compiled by the British Go Association. --TimHunt
- You can buy excellent quality Go equipment from
Kuroki Goishi Ten in Japan. They ship around the world, equipment is high quality, relatively low cost and well packaged with various shipping options available. I have some photos of the equipment I bought from them. -- holosys
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