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Go Resources on the Net
The internet is a rich place for Go information. here a list, for playing on the internet see the page go servers and Turn based go servers
Please add your own site's URL. If you need another category, then just create it. Go Clubs and Associations are at Go Places. Blogs are at Go blogs. See also HomePages and Names In Go.
1. Portals, link collections and other general pages
- GoStackexchangeCom? (
http://go.stackexchange.com/) (closed)
- Q&A site about game of go running an a great Q&A engine: stackexchange. Great place for community discussions and collective game/position analisis
- AllAboutGo (
http://www.allaboutgo.com)
- General Go resource site with a blog and articles by professionals, lessons, resources/tools, image and literature gallery, Go history overview and more.
- Gobase (
http://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.
- GoDiscussions.com (
http://www.godiscussions.com/)
- Forum site exclusively for Go players. Currently site is broken. not used anymore use life in 19 x 19 instead
- Life in 19x19 (
http://www.lifein19x19.com/)
- Forum site exclusively for Go players.
- Go4Go (
http://www.go4go.net/v2/)
- Another games database with the emphasis on Chinese professional Go. Some of the services are accessible only through payment.
- Go Game Guru (
http://gogameguru.com/)
- A site dedicated to promoting the game of Go, including up to date Go news, professional game reviews, study material and other resources for both beginners and advanced Go players.
- GokifuCom (
http://gokifu.com/)
- Another games database, anyone can upload games, dynamically updated, provides additional features for Kifu posting blogs/forums
- Gotaro website (
http://gotaro.homeip.net/)
- A go related general website providing more than 2300 go problems. Except for the English pages, knowledge of the basic Japanese go terminology is needed to understand and solve the problems.
- Gotaro's Go for Beginners (
http://gotaro.homeip.net/English/English.html)
- A go related general website providing for an English corner covering 'go for beginners' pages and those directed to go problems selected from 6400 tsumego, tesuji and fuseki problems (freely downloadable) that can be practised in the actual game atmosphere (computer will respond to every move, good or bad, played by the user till the outcome becomes readily foreseeable).
- Go-Sensei (
http://go-sensei.com)
- Offers Go info such as Monthly Go Proverbs, Pro Title records, Pro Title winners, and Go Servers. Also contains lessons by Alexander Dinerchtein 3p, Jonathan Hop 2d, and Don Allison? 1d.
- JustPlayGo (
http://www.justplaygo.com/)
- recent pro games and some problems.
- Mr. Kin's go news (
http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/)
- Asian go news and topics since November 5th, 2003. Site moving, Oct 2010
http://igokisen.web.fc2.com/news.html
- Momoyama go news (
http://momoyama.or.tv/news/news.html)
- 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.
- Go Games World? (
http://www.gogameworld.com/)
- Asian Go news and commented professional games. English portal with strong ties to Chinese Go (Wei Q'i).
- shy's go page (
http://shy.taiwango.org/)
- Lots of articles about Go, traditional Chinese only (BIG5 code). International games with chinese comments, such as Ing Cup, LG Cup.
- China Weiqi Net? (
http://www.weiqi.net/)
- A portal in Chinese language.
- Go-News (
http://www.go-news.net/)
- A news site to which readers can submit news. Not a wiki.
- Go for beginners (
http://members.fortunecity.es/andrespernia)
- Books, news and much more. In Spanish. Maintained by Horacio A. Pernía.
- Badukbaka (
http://learnbaduk.com/)
- This is a website about go where you'll find go book reviews, go software reviews, go rules explained and more.
- Kyu2Dan (
http://www.kyu2dan.com/)
- Kyu2Dan is a new Go portal focusing on basically everything that might help you improve your Go skills: theory, tsumego, reviews and professional games are being offered. The content is uploaded by users, approved and then added to the site in order to provide high quality content.
- Go start for all (
http://go.start4all.com/)
- is the
start4all.com concept brought to Go. It's the continuation of the Dutch Go Assiociation's link page. Maintained by Ger Hanssen.
- French Go Links (
http://www.mylinea.com/didierkropp/)
- Links from Belgium, France, Québec, Switzerland, U.S.A.,... At least a part of the website is in french.
- The Go Link Explorer (
http://linkexplorer.net/go/)
- A new, large, rapidly growing directory of Go links.
- Newsgroup rec.games.go (
news://rec.games.go)
- The usenet usegroup about go. Also accessible and searchable via
google groups.
- FAQ for the newsgroup rec.games.go (
http://www.igoweb.org/~pahle/go-faq/)
- General information about Go on and off the internet - a good place to start your search for more Go information.
- Go Sensations (
http://www.gosensations.com/)
- news from and about go servers
- Russian Go Portal (
http://weiqi.ru/)
- Russian news, photos, game records, tournaments etc.
- 321Go (
http://www.321go.org/) (Dutch)
- A Dutch website containing a very good study program with hundreds of problems of many sorts. Dutch Go players should really check this out!
- SuomiGo (
http://suomigo.net/wiki/MainPage)
- Finnish Go wiki.
- IsraelGo (
http://israel.european-go.org/)
- Israeli Go wiki.
- Baduk4All (
http://www.baduk4all.com/)
- Contains a small forum/blog as well as commented games. Registration is required.
- WeiqiOK.com (
http://www.weiqiok.com/asp/English.asp)
- A portal based in Shenzhen, China.
- Google Custom Search (
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=003689800377035475723%3Aonktbhnjace)
- a Google product that allows users to build their own search engines.
; DMOZ Open Directory Project also has links to go sites(
http://www.dmoz.org/Games/Board_Games/Abstract/Territory_Games/Go/).
; Webring has a
game of go ring
See also /Discontinued
2. Introductory Go material
- Go-Sensei (
http://go-sensei.com/tutorial.aspx)
- Interactive flash tutorial that explains the basic concepts of the game. Includes a go terms dictionary and go problems for beginners.
- Go - The most challenging board game in the World (
http://www.britgo.org/intro/booklet.pdf)
- A very readable BGA introduction of 1999 as PDF. Covers everything from history to Rules.
- Tel's Go Notes (
http://www.telgo.com/)
- First steps for people who know the rules of Go (or think they do), but don't see how that helps them become Go players.
- Mindy McAdams' introductory pages (
http://www.well.com/~mmcadams/gointro.html)
- A well known introduction.
- Daniel Gilder's How to play Go (
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel.gilder/)
- Download/view leaflet for complete beginners on how to play Go.
- unkx80's How To Play Go (
http://yeefan.sg/weiqi/howtoplaygo/)
- Another tutorial for beginners.
- Interactive Way to Go (
http://playgo.to/interactive/index.html)
- Interactive Java tutorial, begins at the "50 kyu" level; available in many languages, including Esperanto.
- Kyu2Dan Introduction to Go (
http://www.kyu2dan.com/theory.php?link=21k&sublink=rules)
- The Kyu2Dan's introduction to the Go-rules with do-it-yourself parts in order to ensure the rules are understood.
- The Wonderful World of Go (
http://www.garrisonmedia.com/wwgo.html)
- Flash introduction made by SL's own Scartol.
- First Principles of the Game called Go (
http://www3.igalaxy.net/~nick/go/)
- Introduction to Go - with 2000 slides!
-
Go: Life Itself)
- Very nice introductory article (history, philosophy, rules, ...)
- Badukbaka (
http://learnbaduk.com/go-game-rules.html)
- Learn the rules of go at this website.
- Malaysia Weiqi Association lessons for beginners (
http://mwagolessons.wordpress.com/)
- Formatted as a series of blog posts (most recent first); scroll down for the earlier lessons
- Tips for Learning Go (
http://go.kestrel.nu/)
- Some thoughts on how to get started (as opposed to what the rules are).
- Go for Beginners (
http://learngo.tripod.com/)
- Learn a few basics on go. (As of June 2007, this site appears to be still under construction.)
- Learn to play go (
http://learngo.bravehost.com/
- Introduction to go. (Under construction.)
3. Study
- Study Assistance Software
- another page on SL with study links and resources.
- Ang-Yue Go School? Study Guide (
http://www.aygoschool.com/Ang-Yue_guide.pdf)
- Li Ang (3p) and Li Yue (9d) offer this study guide to help players improve; the suggested study plans go from beginners to dan players. It also includes a listing of the study material a go player can use.
- Drago (
http://www.godrago.net/)
- problem and game replayer, GNU Go client, SGF editor, kifu and diagram printer, Windows freeware.
- goproblems.com (
http://www.goproblems.com/)
- More than 7000 well organized life-and-death, joseki, fuseki, endgame, etc. problems for you to solve, and you can contribute your own stumpers. Uses java.
- Josekipedia (
http://www.josekipedia.com/)
- An open and community contributed joseki database.
- BruGo (
http://www.brugo.be/ or
http://www.brugo.net/)
- A website entirely dedicated to the study of joseki. Contains joseki dictionary and references to professional moves, joseki problems and reccomended joseki lists.
- Guo Juan's Internet Go School (
http://internetgoschool.com)
- Online Go teaching school, recorded audio Go lectures.
- Go Teaching Ladder (
http://gtl.xmp.net/)
- have your own games commented
- Go Test (
http://play.baduk.org/)
- 20 problems and rank estimation at the end
- [Gotaro Tsumego/Tesuji/Fuseki] (
http://gotaro.homeip.net/English/English_html)
- provides go problems in English for elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of players
- Hitachi Tsumego (
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/Sp/tsumego/index-e.html)
- Each week Minoru Harada provides one easy and one hard Go-problem in this page.
- Java applet with Life and death problems on Yi Ch'ang-ho's website (
http://www.leechangho.com/dr.html)
- 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.
- Daily Yomiuri? (
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/columns/0001/)
- 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
- The Korea Times Baduk (
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/art_list.asp?categoryCode=152)
- A weekly issue in the newspaper. See Baduk Made Fun And Easy
- uliGo (
http://www.g0ertz.de/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).
- kombilo (
http://www.u-go.net/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.
- SGF to Printable format converter (
http://os16.cjb.net/sgf2print)
- Upload your SGF files here to produce printable diagrams of your games. Supports all board sizes and handicap stones, either black or white.
- Samarkand GameBase? (
http://www.samarkand.net/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)
- Sanrensei (
http://sanrensei.info/)
- Sanrensei fuseki - Is it a good choice for you? Go test, created by Alexander Dinerstein , 3-dan professional
- My Friday Night Files (
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rongen17/) of Jan van Rongen
- 1400 games of Cho Chikun; 150 games of Yamashita Keigo; 100 Hikaru no Go related games and other study material.
- Fuseki Info (
http://fuseki.info/)
- Online version of the BiGo Assistant Profi - professional Go games database (more than 65,000 game records). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees.
- Fuseki Info for KGS Go Server (
http://kgs.fuseki.info/)
- Online database of games played on KGS Go Server (more than 75,000 game records). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees.
- Go (Weiqi, Baduk) Rules (
http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/rules.html)
- Thorough study of Rules, Commentaries, Examples, etc.
- Goama (
http://gogame.info/)
- International Go Newsletter. Go news, theory, trick moves, commented games, go books and equipment reports, pro players interviews
- Go game softwares (
http://www.gogameonline.com)
- Windows and mobile (Palm, Pocket PC, Smartphone, Symbian, Java) go game software.
- The tsume-go social gathering (
http://www.h-eba.com/tsumego/)
- Collection of tsumego problems.
- Tsumego, a Go problems mailing list (
http://tsumego.jeudego.org/index_eng.php)
- Receive each week 3 or 4 life-and-death problems set up by Fan Hui 2p, the best rated player in Europe. You will receive problems of various levels : 20 kyu, 10 kyu, 1 dan, and from time to time (roughly every two weeks) a 5 dan problem.
- Sorin Gherman's Go lessons (
http://www.361points.com/lessons/)
- series of articles/lessons by Sorin Gherman, amateur 6 dan
- Go Game Archive (
http://gogamearchive.org/)
- Collection of miscellaneous materials: games, articles, videos, lessons, etc.
- Audio Go lectures in PuTongHua (
http://www.gotv.com.cn/page)
- If any of you know Pu Tong Hua, this will be a good website for you
- Costa Rica Go club? (
http://central-america-forum.com/forum-topic/go-clubs-costa-rica)
- Central America's Go club
4. Saved (and commented) games on the Internet
- egoban.org (
http://egoban.org)
- An online portal where users can easily add/search/view games through an intuitive web interface (Wiki at egoban.org).
- Ang-Yue's pro games and problems collection (
http://www.aygoschool.com/)
- Li Ang (3p) and Li Yue (9d) offer nearly 4,000 pro games and over 4,000 go problems for download on their website.
- Book of Commented Games by Go Seigen (
http://www.5z.com/tucsongo/book/)
- Book about games of Go Seigen with comments. Made with LaTeX. Available as PostScript and PDF. Also SGF-files available.
- byheart (
http://byheartgo.googlepages.com/)
- All games of Go Seigen and some games of Honinbo Shusai and Takemiya Masaki and more.
- "Honinbo Dosaku" (
http://members.fortunecity.es/andrespernia/dosaku.html)
- 67 games in SGF format.
- !FTP-site of IGS (
ftp://ftp-igs.joyjoy.net/igs/games/)
- See the
README for more information.
- Fuseki Info? (
http://fuseki.info/)
- Online version (beta) of the
BiGo Assistant Profi.
- Games of Go on Disk? (
http://www.gogod.co.uk/)
- A very large database of professional go games.
- GokifuCom (
http://gokifu.com)
- Pro games collection, recent games from European Tournaments.
- Go4Go (
http://www.go4go.net/v2/)
- Close to ten thousand pro games, with new games added on a continuous basis. Most can be downloaded for free.
-
http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/alex/ - Pro and amateur games commented by Alexandre Dinerchtein, available with a subscription fee.
- GoBase (
http://www.gobase.org/)
- Free registration required for access. New registrations must be manually approved by Jan van der Steen.
-
http://gobase.org/studying/analysed/ - Mostly pro games commented by Jan van der Steen and others from IGS
- Go Games (Brouwer, Andries) (
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/go/games/index.html)
- 1111 professional games in SGF format.
- Go Game World (
http://www.gogameworld.com/)
- Commented games available with a yearly subscription fee. Just over one thousand commented pro games currently. Affiliated with weiqi.tom.com.
- The Honinbo Game Collection (
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/go/honinbo.html)
- Games played in the Honinbo match from 1941 to 1995.
- The Killer Of Go? Companion (
http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/age-summer-94/companion.html)
- Games of Sakata Eio vs. Kato Masao.
- KIN's Homepage (
http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/)
- Michael's SGF Repository (
http://sgf.mgoetze.net/)
- By mgoetze.
- My Friday Night Files (
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rongen17/)
- Many games of Cho Chikun, in particular.
-
Hikaru No Go Games - Pro games featured in various issues of Hikaru no Go.
- Professional Games in Smart Go Format (
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mmueller/go/games.html)
- (Müller, Martin) - Note that this page features game collections in single SGF files, which many SGF Readers do not support well. SmartGo does.
- Partien aus der Deutschen Go-Zeitung (
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/dgoz/)
- German, collected by the author of Jago.
- Sorin Gherman's Commented Go Games (
http://www.361points.com/kifu_sorin/)
- Commented games as an insei.
- Tasuki's Go School (
http://www.volny.cz/tasuki/slavnee.htm)
- The most famous go games.
- Yi Se-Tol (
http://leesedol.go4go.net/)
- Also written as Lee Sedol or Lee Saedol.
- Bilingual Teaching Game (
http://ww3.telerama.com/~mrkeys/go-pg94.html)
- This unusual link is a bilingual version of an article from the Igo Club Magazine including, in addition to the translation, a literal word-by-word translation and a complete vocabulary list. Kevin Moore ("Mr. Keys"), a musician working in Japan, had an eight-stone teaching game with Sanno Hirotaka,and this is an account of that game along with human interest details. (You may have to enable your web browser to display Japanese, if it doesn't do so already.) DISCONTINUED
Also see Go databases.
5. Computer Go
See Go Playing Programs for links to individual programs
This list is only about general computer go resources
-
http://www.citeulike.org/group/5884/library
- the currently (may 2010) most uptodate computer go reference list.
-
http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
- computer go mailinglist
-
http://cgos.boardspace.net/
- CGOS - A Go Server Just for Computers
-
http://www.fangdaslicht.net/onlinegames/go-online-spielen.php
- Online Go against the pc. There is also a 9x9 board available.
-
http://www.computer-go.info
- past computer Go tournament results, etc.
{old links}
- Michael Reiss' page (
http://www.reiss.demon.co.uk/webgo/compgo.htm)
- probably the best informed and most recently updated list of computer go resources. (18 May 2002).
- The Computer Go Ladder (
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/go/ladder.html)
- Computer Go Bibliography
-
http://www.markus-enzenberger.de/compgo_biblio/compgo_biblio.html
- OpenGo (
http://www.inventivity.com/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.
- Intelligent Go Foundation (
http://www.intelligentgo.org/)
- The Intelligent Go Foundation is dedicated to the promotion of computer go.
- David Mechner's page (
http://www.mechner.com/david/compgo/)
- The Burmeister-Wiles article (
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~janetw/Computer%20Go/CS-TR-339.html
- An Introduction to the Computer Go Field and Associated Internet Resources.
6. Sites to play Go
See Go Servers.
7. Miscellaneous
- Go lessons on KGS? (
http://www.egogames.com/)
- Go lessons by Joey Hung AGA 8 dan.
- Go IRC channel
- List of IRC channels about Go
- SGF2print? (
http://sgf2print.digitalization.nl/)
- A useful tool to create instant printable diagrams of your SGF files or LittleGolem move sequences. Works for all board sizes, handicap stones and pre-setup boards. Displays most game information as well.
- The Art of Go (
http://www.3dgo.org/)
- A small collection of digital art (made by Scartol) relating to Go.
- Goban Screensaver (
http://draves.org/goban/)
- Plays back historic games (Linux only).
- Waller's Go/Baduk/Wieqi Books (
http://www.yclwaller.com/)
- We specialize in Korean Go Books with over 100 titles available, there are many Lee Chang Ho titles. A majority are in Korean text.
- Pronounciation of Japanese Igo Terms (
http://switzerland.european-go.org/switzerland/go-pron.html)
- Pronunciation of about 200 Japanese go terms, in MP3 format.
- Go books in English (
http://gobooks.nemir.org)
- A searchable bibliography of all books written in English
- Go game search engine (
http://find.gogame.info/)
- Go Search Engine with 99% of all Go sites included.
- Go books in french (
http://bibliographie.jeudego.org/)
- The Go books written in french, published in France, Québec, and Belgium. No books yet from Switzerland, ...
- Go lessons on KGS (
http://breakfast.go4go.net/)
- Go lessons by Alexandre Dinerchtein.
- Photos from Korea (
http://badyk.ru/)
- Funny pictures from Korea.
- Photos from Russia (
http://goama.upstream.ru/gallery/)
- Go Game in Russia in photos.
- New Go forum with diagrams (
http://forum.weiqi.ru/)
- International Go forum, sgf and jpg file supports.
- AGF Tiger's Mouth (
http://tigersmouth.org/)
- Go site for kids and teens. Features a comic strip of the same name.
GoVortex ( http://www.govortex.org)
TV Tropes has a page on Go ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Go)
8. Go Blogs
See Go Blogs.
9. Other Wikis
- Sensei's Tournament Library (
http://senseis.xmp.net/tournament)
- A European Go Congress Organisers Handbook
- Tour Bus Stop
- Visit other wikis (not necessarily related to Go)
See also GoWikiWiki.