Go on the Internet

There is a lot of information on Go available on the internet. The following links are excellent starting points.

Great Go Pages

• This " List of Lists" will help you find links to about anything you need to know about Go.
• The bookmarks of Harry Fearnley is another excellent source of links to a wealth of information.
• You will return to Jan van der Steen's page Go, an Addictive Game again and again.
• Sensei's library is one of the fastest growing web sites about Go.
• Go4Go
• Newsgroups The European Go Federation
• The International Go Federation
• The Nihon Ki-in Home Page in English.
• Swedish Go Association
• Finnish Go Association
• Danish Go Association

Playing Go on the Internet

Go is not yet very widespread in Norway, and unless you happen to live in the Oslo area chances are that the Go servers will be your only option for playing. The two most popular servers for Western players are

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• The Kiseido Go Server

but there are many others: see here for a more comprehensive list of Go servers with an English interface (including turn based servers).

How to Play Go? How to study?

If you are have not heard about Go before, but you think this game sounds interesting, then you should look at some of the pages below.

• The Interactive Way to Go by Hiroko Mori.
• How to play Go by Samarkand.
• How to play Go by the Nihon Ki-in.
• A Go-Comic by Andreas Fecke.

Once you have learnt the rules, read some book like "The magic of Go" by Cho Chikun, and maybe played a few games, the question of how to study comes up. Of course there are issues as to how much time you want to devote to this game. However, if you have decided that you like this game and are getting serious about improving, reading David Mechner's How to improve at Go is highly recommended. (Then read it again and repeat this every month or so.) What books to read? Look at AGA Go Books list or David Carlton's excellent Annotated Go Bibliographies.

Solving lots of problems is a good way to become stronger. goproblems.com is a fine and constantly growing source of problems in all genres and all levels of difficulty.

We also recommend using the Go Teaching ladder. Here you can get your games reviewed by stronger players. Reviewing games for other players will most likely make you a stronger player as well.

Finally we would like to point your attention to some excellent sources for commented professional games (and much more!):

• Guo Juan's Audio Go Lectures
• Alexandre Dinerchtein at Go4Go.net

Distributors

It can be quite hard to find book stores selling Go books or playing equipment. This is especially so in Norway. For that reason we have listed a few distributors:

• Het Paard (Europe)
• Kiseido Publishing Company(US, Japan)
• Yutopian Enterprises (US)
• Samarkand (US)
• Hebsacker Verlag (Europe)
• Go-Figure (Europe)