Go World
Go World is an English-language Go magazine published approximately three times per year by Kiseido. Each issue, on average 64 pages, contains extended commentaries on top title matches, world go news, problem sets, and articles on various aspects of the game.
Go World was first published in May 1977, and has been published continuously since that time, with an interruption from Summer 1992 till Autumn 1993. Numerous title match games from this interruption can be found in Tournament Go 1992. Miyamoto Naoki permitted Go World to draw freely from the Kansai Ki-in magazines Igo Shincho and Gekkan Gogaku.
Go World is available as PDF documents from Kiseido Digital through their Go World Archive product.
GoBase.org provides an online index where you can search for articles per issue, by category and by title. Kiseido also has its own index
here.
An index of all Go World items up to and including issue 114.
Top Ten Go Stories of the 20th Century[1]
Published in the Spring 2001 issue were the results of Go Weekly's reader's polling asking what they thought the top ten go stories of the 20th century were.
- Union of the go world: founding of the Nihon Ki-in (in 1924)
- Cho Chikun winning the Honinbo title ten years in a row and gaining his second Triple Crown
- The success of newspaper and TV tournaments
- The birth of New Fuseki (invented by Go Seigen and Kitani Minoru in the 30s)
- Go Seigen's coming to Japan
- The Chinese whirlwind and the development of international tournaments (the 80s and 90s)
- The sudden rise of Korea (the 90s)
- The success of Rin Kaiho and the Kitani school
- The spread of computer go
- Sakata Eio's title domination (the 60s)
Runner-ups:
- The founding of the World Amateur Go Championship
- The spread of go around the world.
Notes
- Go World is distinct from the Nihon Ki-in magazine called Gekkan Go Waarudo or "Monthly Go World".
[1]Go World Iss. 91, pp. 12.