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Go Resources on the Net
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1. Portals, link collections and other general pages
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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.
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Go4Go
- Another games database with the emphasis on Chinese professional Go. Some of the services are accessible only through payment.
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Mr. Kin's go news
- Asian go news and topics since November 5th, 2003.
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Momoyama go news
- Information about the events in the world of Big Title Go may be found out at Momoyama go news. Information is only up to November 5th, 2003, later news please go to Mr. Kin's go news above.
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Go Games World
- Asian Go news and commented professional games. English portal with strong ties to Chinese Go (Wei Q'i).
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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.
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China Weiqi Net
- A portal in Chinese language.
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Go-News
- A news site to which readers can submit news. Not a wiki.
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Go for beginners
- Nikkai: Books,News and much more. In Spanish. Maintained by Horacio A. Pernía.
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Go start for all
- is the www.start4all.com concept brought to Go. It's the continuation of the Dutch Go Assiociation's link page. Maintained by Ger Hanssen.
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French Go Links
- Links from Belgium, France, Québec, Switzerland, U.S.A.,... At least a part of the website is in french.
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Newsgroup rec.games.go
- The usenet usegroup about go. Also accessible and searchable via
google groups.
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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.
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Mind Sports Olympiad
(MSO)
- Has megabytes of info on chess, shogi, scrabble, etc., and of course
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. DISCONTINUED
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Harry Fearnley's Main Go (Baduk, WeiQi/Wei-Ch'i, Igo) Page
- Another comprehensive Go web index on the Internet. DISCONTINUED
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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. DISCONTINUED
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Dan's Go/Weiqi/Baduk Page
- A number of general links, although the focus is computer go. CORRUPT LINK
2. Introductory Go material
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Mindy Mc Adams' introductory pages
- A well known introduction.
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How to play Go
- Download/view leaflet for complete beginners on how to play Go.
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How To Play Go
- Another tutorial for beginners.
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Interactive Way to Go
- Interactive Java tutorial, begins at the "50 kyu" level; available in many languages, including Esperanto.
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The Wonderful World of Go
- Flash introduction made by SL's own Scartol.
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First Principles of the Game called Go
- Introduction to Go - with 2000 slides!
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Go: Life Itself
- Very nice introductory article (history, philosphy, rules, ...)
3. Study
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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.
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Go Teaching Ladder
- have your own games commented (see Go Teaching Ladder for more info)
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Hitachi Tsumego
- Each week Minoru Harada provides one easy and one hard Go-problem in this page.
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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, and currently doesn't work without Internet Explorer. SiouxDenim:link seems to be dead, with nothing similar anywhere on the linked site.
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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.
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Daily Yomiuri
- A large (280) collection of weekly 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. The first 46 columns were written by Richard Bozulich, after which it was taken over by Rob Van Zeijst. Older columns have been lost at this page. Archives are linked from The Magic of Go Yomiuri Shimbun
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Korean Times
- A weekly issue in the newspaper. This is
Baduk Made Fun & Easy, which has a column heading about mid-way on the Arts & Living page of the Korean Times. See Baduk Made Fun And Easy
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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).
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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.
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Moyo Go Studio
- Moyo Go Studio comes with 400,000 games and knows the statistical urgency of 17 million Go patterns (Fuseki, Joseki, Tesuji, "Good Shape" etc.) It can instantly show those patterns in a position, give its urgency value and show examples in those 400,000 games (incl. your own added games).
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SGF to Prinformat
- Upload your SGF files here to produce printable diagrams of your games. Supports all board sizes and handicap stones, either black or white.
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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. (
skip Janice's introduction)
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Friday Night Files of Jan van Rongen
- 1400 games of Cho Chikun; 150 games of Yamashita Keigo; 100 Hikaru no Go related games and other study material.
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Fuseki Info
- Online version of the BiGo Assistant Profi - professional Go games database (more than 28,000 games). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees.
Thorough study of Rules, Commentaries, Examples, etc.
4. Saved (and commented) games on the Internet
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Book of Commented Games by Go Seigen - Book about games of Go Seigen with comments. Made with LaTeX. Available as PostScript? and PDF. Also SGF-files available.
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byheart - All games of Go Seigen and some games of Honinbo Shusai and Takemiya Masaki and more.
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Dosaku
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The Ear-Reddening Move
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FTP-site of IGS
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Fuseki Info (Online version (beta) of the
BiGo Assistant Profi)
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Games of Go on Disk
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Go4Go.net
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http://www.go4go.net/english/commentary/ (not free)
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The Goban: Downloads: SGF
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gobase.org
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Go Games (Brouwer, Andries)
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Go Game World
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Go Topics
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The Honinbo Game Collection
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Jigo: Game Records
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The Killer Of Go Companion
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KIN's Homepage
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Michael's SGF Repository (mgoetze)
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Modern Game Insight
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My Friday Night Files - Including games of Hikaru no Go
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KGS Beginner's Room (broken link... where did this page go?)
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Professional Games in Smart Go Format (Müller, Martin)
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Partien aus der Deutschen Go-Zeitung (German, collected by the author of Jago)
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Sorin Gherman's Commented Go Games
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Takemiya's Most Recent Games
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Tasuki's Go School: The most famous games
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The Web Go Page Index: game collections
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Yi Se-Tol (Also written as Lee Sedol or Lee Saedol)
- Also see Go databases
5. Computer Go
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Michael Reiss' page
- probably the best informed and most recently updated list of computer go resources. (18 May 2002).
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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.
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Intelligent Go Foundation
- The Intelligent Go Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of computer go.
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SmartGo
- A Go-playing program and SGF editor. The web site includes information on
computer Go and on
SmartGo implementation details.
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Moyo Go Studio
- An SGF editor and GNU Go client as well as a Go pattern expert.
See also Go Playing Programs and Computer Go
6. Sites to play Go
See Go Servers.
7. Miscellaneous
- Go IRC channel
- List of IRC channels about Go
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SGF 2 print
- A useful tool to create instant printable diagrams of your SGF files or LittleGolem moves sequences. Works for all board sizes, handicap stones and pre-setup stones.
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The Art of Go
- A small collection of digital art (made by Scartol) relating to Go.
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Goban Screensaver
- Plays back historic games (linux only).
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The Goban
- A forum (message board) created by Hikaru79 in 2004. Contains boards made for talking about go strategy, recent events, games, and just general chatter. Only about 34 members so far, it still has a long way to go.
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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.
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Pronounciation of Japanese Igo Terms
- Pronunciation of about 200 Japanese go terms, in MP3 format.
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Go books in french
- The Go books written in french, published in France and Québec. No books yet from Belgium, Swsitzerland,...
8. Other Wikis
(see also GoWikiWiki)
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Sensei's Tournament Library
- A European Go Congress Organisers Handbook
- Tour Bus Stop
- Visit other wikis (not necessarily related to Go)