Go Problems on the Internet

A list of collections of go problems that can be found on the Internet, sorted by language. A number of the sites listed below, particularly the Japanese sites, do not specify the character encoding in the HTML sent to the web browser. Therefore, you should modify your browser settings to auto-detect the character encoding. Some require Java.

Chinese

Tesuji:

Life and Death Drills on Tom.com (749 life and death problems, 122 tesuji problems as of 2 December 2010)

Shangdu, introductory 初级 (63)

Shangdu, intermediate 中级 (45)

Shangdu, advanced 高级 (36)

Shangdu, carpenter's square 金柜角 (31)

Shangdu, Igo Hatsuyoron 发阳论 partial version of Igo Hatsuyoron (47)

Shangdu, Xuanxuan Qijing 玄玄棋经 partial version of Xuanxuan Qijing (30)

Shangdu, Guanzi Pu 官子谱 partial version of Guanzi Pu (41)

Shangdu, Gokyo Shumyo 棋经众妙 partial version of Gokyo Shumyo (31)

Shiyong (~50)

English

Tsumego:

S. Bailey monthly (118)

Denis Feldmann's bestiary in French and English.

Edmonton Sabaki Club (515)

GoBase

Go Game Guru (330)

goproblems.com (description) (11784 problems)

Minoru Harada (two sets of 845 problems as of 2012)

Igo Hatsuyo-ron (183)

IGS (50)

Xuan Xuan Qi Jing

Lukedraik (214)

PlayGo.to (3)

Gokyo Shumyo (474)

OGS puzzles Genran, Guanzi Pu, Cho Chikun etc.

Tasuki collection (pdf) includes Gokyo Shumyo, Igo Hatsuyoron and Xuan Xuan Qi Jing (description

Tsumego of the week (46) presented by Ion Florescu

U-go classical collections (Qi Jing Zhong Miao, Xuan Xuan Qi Jing, Guan Zi Pu, Qi Jing Zhong Miao, Xuanlan)

YeeFan.sg (177)

Tesuji:

Fuseki:

Mixed sets:

French

Jeu de Go exercises

Tsumego au coin Commonly seen tsumego for real games by Motoki Noguchi

Problèmes coréens 24 Korean problems presented by Denis Feldmann

élémentaires de Maéda a b c d e f (36)

François Mizessyn's collection (36)

German

Eckstellungen 1-5 6-10 11-13 14 15 16 17-19 (19) (sadly, these links give error 404)

Japanese

Only a small subset of Japanese is needed for problems.

Mixed set:

Karou (191)

Karou, beginners 30k 25k 20k 15k 10k 5k 3k (78)

Kihuu http://www.kihuu.net/index.php?type=6

Fuseki:

Fuseki (120)

Handicap:

Okigo (40)

Joseki:

Joseki (100)

Ko:

Karou (6)

Middle Game:

How to attack (7)

Chuuban (20)

Moyo:

Big moyo (15)

Semeai:

Karou (60)

Tesuji:

Mr. K 1st (52)

Mr. K 2nd (20)

Karou (33)

Mizuho Yoshimoto(700)

Tesuji (80)

Tsumego:

Heart (1)

Hideo (6)

Eba Hiroki, eba 江場詰碁集 (21)

Eba Hiroki, jiten 基本死活辞典 Basic Life and Death Dictionary.

Eba Hiroki, raku 楽々詰碁 (224)

Eba Hiroki, sou 創作詰碁目次 (484)

Eba Hiroki, tsuku 詰碁の創り方 (13)

Eba Hiroki, tsuyo 詰碁に強くなる法 (21)

Eba Hiroki, tukamoto 塚本惠一氏作品集２５題 (25)

Isao (10)

Jcom, basic (50)

Jcom, ranking (95)

Mr. K (40)

Karou, sikatu (85)

Kui 杭の詰碁 (11)

Momo21 (11)

NEC (3)

Shikatsu 死活問題集 (40)

Tom Thumb (27)

Wam (30)

Ken Warkentyne 詰碁問題集 (40)

Mizuho Yoshimoto, basic 基本詰碁集　(700)

Mizuho Yoshimoto, Gengen Gokyo version of Xuanxuan Qijing (292)

Mizuho Yoshimoto, Gokyo Shumyo version of Gokyo Shumyo (513)

Mizuho Yoshimoto, Igo Hatsuyoron version of Igo Hatsuyoron (183)

Mizuho Yoshimoto, Shiqing-lu 適情録 (16)

Harada Minoru (845) Problems composed by famous amateur champion. Two new problems every week. Click at upper right for English version.

Yose:

Karou (74)

Gotaro (112)

Korean

See also:

• Problems and Exercises on Sensei's Library.
• Go problems mailing list by Fan Hui