Go (board game)

Go is a strategic, two-player board game originating in ancient China between 2000 BC and 200 BC.

External links

Learning Go

• The Interactive Way To Go is an excellent resource to learn the basics; includes Java applets.
• British Go Association's introduction to Go
• The Rules of Go
• How To Play Go
• Samarkand is owned by Janice Kim 3p and has a very good beginner introduction.
• Tel's Go Notes where to look when you understand the rules and wonder what to do next.
• goproblems.com has over 3000 problems for practice in a Java applet.
• GoBase has a collection of 750 problems used in Korea to help develop players of amateur dan strength.
• Teach Yourself Go explains the rules of Go and, through step-by-step illustrations, shows how to play the game. The book also covers the origins of the game and its history and culture.

Resources

• Sensei's Library is a wiki devoted entirely to the game of Go - it even has special markup for displaying Go diagrams.
• The Usenet newsgroup has its own FAQ document, the rec.games.go FAQ.
• SIMPLEKO offer go tables & go boards to play the Game.
• Annotated Go Bibliographies Offers reviews of Go books old and new alike.
• Go Base has a particular emphasis on the coverage of the world Go scene, with regularly updated news about all major professional and amateur tournaments. You can register and access a huge database of Go games directly on the site. It also hosts articles, studying material, and much more.

Go history

• History of Go in ancient China, Korea and Japan

Go organizations

• American Go Association
• Asociacion Argentina de Go
• Asociacion Chilena de Go
• Asociacion Española de Go
• Australian Go Association
• Austrian Go Association
• Belgian Go Federation
• British Go Association
• Canadian Go Association
• China Weiqi Association
• Deutscher Go-Bund
• Dutch Go Association (the Netherlands)
• European Go Federation
• Federación Mexicana de Go
• French Go Association
• International Go Federation
• Italian Go Association
• Japan Go Association
• Korea Baduk Association
• Los Angeles Go Association
• Norwegian Go Association
• Singapore Weiqi Association
• Swedish Go Association
• Taiwan Chi Yuan
• Thai Go Association
• Turkish Go Players Association

Internet Go

Go can be played on the Internet against opponents from around the world on numerous Go servers:

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• The Kiseido Go Server is such a server, complete with its own easy-to-use Java client, teaching facilities and introductory material.
• The Internet Go Server, the "original" server. Several official and 3rd party clients are available.
• The Legend Go Server, located in Taiwan, with its own English client.
• The DashN Go Server, Korean server with an English Windows client.
• The Tygem Go, located in Korea, with its own client.
• The Oro Go, located in Korea, with its own client.
• The Dragon Go Server, a turn-based server run on open source software.
• the YourturnMyturn.com, another turnbased site with also other games
• The LittleGolem, another turn-based server, this one centred around tournament play.
• The Playray Go, quite a new browser based Go server, includes many options and a ranking system of its own. Players from various countries.
• The Kurnik Go, with a Java-based browser client.
• The yahoo game server, with a Java-based browser client.

Recorded games

• The popular SGF file format is used to exchange Go lessons and recorded games.
• Fuseki.Info - Online professional Go games database (more than 35000 games). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees. More than 3000 games for free.
• go4go.net - Approximately 6000 professional games can be reviewed for free and without registration.
• Several free reading and authoring programs are listed at Gobase's SGF editors list
• gobase.org also hosts a database of more than 30000 professional Go games in SGF format (free registration required, which takes 1-2 days to process)
• My Friday Night Files provides more than 2000 professional games, including almost all known games of Cho Chikun
• A smaller collection of professional games in SGF format is available without registration at Andries E. Brouwer's Go Games.
• Amateur games are reviewed at The Go Teaching Ladder.

International Go Links

• Grupo Shibumi, Brazilian Go page, for beginner players.

Go software

Go Engines

• GNU Go, free Go-playing engine
• Godot, a java applet that plays Go.

Go Clients

• gGo, SGF editor and client for IGS, in Java; and native variants, qGo and glGo (has a 3D display)
• CGoban1, Go client (Linux, etc)
• CGoban2, Go client for KGS in Java. Also functions as an SGF editor.
• Goban, standalone (against GNU Go) and Internet Go client for Mac OS X
• HandyGo, J2ME Go client that runs on java-enabled cellphones and PDAs.
• Orneta Go, Windows Mobile Go client for Smartphone and Pocket PC.

Study Aids

• GoGrinder, a Java program for practising Go problems.
• Hikarunix, a Linux live CD dedicated to studying and playing Go.
• Go Game Assistant, SGF viewer/editor for Windows.
• Uligo, Multiplataform program to study Tsumego, life and death problems.
• Interactive Go Maps, web-based program for visualizing such concepts as Influence, Concentration, Tension and Instability.

Utilities

• Kombilo Free database and pattern search engine for sgf game records.
• BiGo Assistant - BiGo Assistant is Go (Baduk, Weiqi) games (professional and amateur) database software. It allows searching by fuseki, joseki, positions and game information fields.
• WikiTeX Go supports SGF for inserting go directly into Wiki articles.
• PilotGOne A Go game recorder and SGF viewer/editor for PalmOS.
• GoSuite A Go game recorder and SGF viewer/editor for PocketPC, also including the Vieka GNUgo port for pocketPC allowing you to play against your PocketPC PDA.
• Games::SGF::Tournament - Perl module useful for creating web pages with tournament tables directly from sets of SGF files, also available through CPAN.