Links

Learn More About Go

What is Go?

Learn to play go interactively at The Interactive Way To Go.

Explore all aspects of Go at Sensei's Library.

Discuss Go at GoDiscussions.com.

Go Associations

American Go Association

British Go Association

Japanese Go Association (Nihon Ki-in)

Korean Go Association

Intelligent Go Foundation

German Go Federation

Russian Go Federation

Russian Go Portal

Go Resources

goproblems.com provides a variety of Go problems that you can solve interactively.

Go4Go.net provides Go news, game records, and pro commentaries.

Kogo's Joseki Dictionary is a free joseki dictionary in SGF format, with lots of commented variations.

Harry Fearnley has an amazing collection of Go links.

There's link collection at Sensei's Library.

Goama International Go Newsletter with Go news and commented games.

Alexander Dinerchtein (pro 1 dan) provides Go lessons and commented games.

Competitors

Some of our competitors have interesting web pages describing their programs. Let us know if you want to be included in this list.

The Many Faces of Go by David Fotland

Go4++ by Michael Reiss

Explorer by Martin Müller

Aya by Hiroshi Yamashita

GNU Go by Daniel Bump et al

OpenGo by Jeffrey Greenberg et al

Formats and Standards

SGF File Format: originally developed by SmartGo author Anders Kierulf, extended and documented by Arno Hollosi.

GTP (Go Text Protocol): A new protocol used for communicating between computer Go programs.

Computer Go

Jay Burmeister gives an excellent overview of computer Go issues.

Markus Enzenberger has put together an extensive online computer Go bibliography.

Elwyn Berlekamp's work on mathematical Go provides exact solutions for some late-stage endgames.

Thomas Wolf's GoTools solves enclosed life & death problems as well as dan-level players.

Martin Müller has written many interesting papers on computer Go.