Go Resources

Links to some Go resources on the web:

AGA and Local NC Go Clubs:

• American Go Association
  • Sign up for the AGA e-Journal
• Triangle Go Group
• Wolf Go Club, NCSU’s Go Group
• Charlotte Go Club
• Carolina Wei-qi Tuan, the UNC-CH Go Club

 

Big Four Go Associations:

• Chinese Go Association
• Japan Go Association
• Korean Go Association
• Taiwan Go Association

 

Playing Go Online:

• IGS – IGS Panda Net (multiple languages supported including English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
• KGS – Kiseido  (multiple languages supported including English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean)
• NNGS – No Name Go Server (English only)
• Tom Duiyi  (Chinese language only)
• Sina Go  (Chinese language only)
• Lian Zhong Weiqi (Chinese language only)
• Qingfeng Weiqi (Chinese language only)
• eWeiqi.com (Chinese language only)
• TYGEM (Korean language only)

 

Learning Go Online:

• Go4Go.net (English and Chinese versions)
• Go Problems  (English)
• Sensei’s Library (English)
• Tom Weiqi  (Chinese only – the best source for news coverage and live broadcast of professional games )
• Sina Weiqi  (Chinese only – news and live broadcast of professional games )

 

Software – Go Viewers, Editors, Clients and Computer Programs (free):

• Multi-Go: an excellent Go record viewer and editor (supporting both English and Chinese).
• gGo: an excellent IGS client, a good GUI client for the computer program GNU Go, and a good Go record viewer and editor.
• GNU Go: a free batch computer Go program – need to download gGo or Multi-Go as well as its GUI.
• Igowin: a free 9×9 version of the commercial computer Go program – Many Faces of Go.
• Handtalk: a free 9×9 version of a commercial computer Go program.