Buying Equipment / in Europe

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Austria

• Game-Go.shop - sells all for game Go.

Belgium

• Brussels: Marchand
• Gent: De Denksportkampioen

Czech Republic

• go-shop.cz Czech e-shop.

Finland

• Gaimport is a shop in the Helsinki region that sells everything needed to play go, including books about go.

France

• Paris: Variantes, also sells go, chess and other games online. Here there is also a wide range of products.
• Grenoble: JeudeGo.com, material and books online. Specializes in go, but also other eastern games like mahjong, shogi, xiang-qi, and others. Also a wide range of material.
• Paris: Le Damier de l'Opera, more of a chess store, but also sells some go material. No online store.
• Paris (st Denis) aobo-shop sells go, chess and other games online.

Germany

• https://www.go-spiele.de/en/=
• Japanwelt.
• Levy's Contor.
• Robert Jasiek's Go Book Shop sells books.
• Schach Niggemann.

Israel

• Mind Go Club is a chain of GO/ Baduk clubs across the country with shop in Rosh Ha'Ayin (not far from Tel Aviv) that sells everything needed to play and study go/ baduk, including GO books GO sets, GO boards, Go bowls, stones and other GO equipment.
• Mind Go Club updtes or consult Mind Go Club Forum Contact: Shavit: +972.54.4500453

Netherlands

• Schaak- en Go-winkel 'het Paard'(the horse) - Shop in Amsterdam carrying Go sets, programs, and a lot of books. Also has chess stuff and puzzles etcetera. Main website: http://www.schaakengo.nl/. It even has a page at Sensei's! There are special websites for go http://www.gowinkel.nl/(old?) and http://www.goshop-keima.com/.
• 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.
• Weiqistore.com. Sells Yunzi's and bamboo/shin-kaya boards. DEAD LINK

Norway

• Outland is mainly a comic book store, but they also sell basic folding gobans, stones and goke.
• http://brettspill.no also sells a type of travelboard.
• http://gamezone.no sells 47 x 44cm wooden board

Poland

• https://polgote.com/en/shop - New Online Go Shop owned by Mateusz Surma 2p.
• https://www.e-go.pl/ - Poland's oldest and largest go equipment shop.
• http://ponnuki.eu - Warehouse of go equipment: go boards, go stones & go bowls from Asia. A offer for shops running purchase of Go equipment.
• https://www.rebel.pl/ - A games shop with a category for go equipment.
• https://go9x9.eu/ - Local atari go kit manufacturer.

Russia

Moscow:

• http://gostones.org/katalog.html
• http://go-igo.ru/complect-go.html

St-Petersburg

• http://goforme.ru/ - possible to shop online as well
• http://www.nigiri.ru/price/spb/ - shop of the go club Nigiri

Online shops:

• http://shop.way-of-go.com/
• http://igra-go.com/ - shop of Territory go club
• http://go-game.ru/shop
• http://www.strana-igr.ru/index.php?categoryID=12246

Spain

• Barcelona
  • http://www.gigamesh.com sells everything you might need and accept orders by mail.
  • http://www.jocsmallart.com Basic sets of wood. Usually a bit expensive.
• 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
• Madrid
  • There is a shop which sells a pretty good set. It's called Naipe Juegos
  • A few years ago, someone made a list of boardgames-shops in Madrid, though I can tell you it's a bit outdated
  • Hans: Korean shop in Maestro Guerrero, 6 (Next to Plaza de España) They have Baduk stones and folding boards. They are slighty smaller than the japanese ones, but really affordable. The stones are nice.
  • Extremo Oriente: Chinese food shop in the passage of Plaza de España Parking. They have stones and wooden boards. This two shops appeared in the previous list, and they are still working! (2009)
  • Juegos de la Antigüedad: They make games in wood very well done.

Sweden

• GoButiken - Based in Gothenburg.

• The House of Classical Games - Based in Stockholm.

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

• Go Game Guru has an excellent range of Go equipment and books starting with very cheap go sets and going all the way up to insane luxury Go boards. They ship UK orders from London.
• The British Go Association maintains a list of UK Go retailers …
• … and a list of non-UK suppliers
• The BGA Book Seller has restarted and brings a selection to tournaments as well a supporting outreach events
• BGA Members are entitled to a 15% discount on purchases of Go Books and Equipment from Pentangle (also known as Payday Games) via http://www.britgo.org/books/members.html

Turkey

• Istanbul Go School