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| Games of Go on Disk | ||
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Games of Go on Disk (GoGoD) is run by John Fairbairn and T Mark Hall. Its main product, the GoGoD encyclopedia, has a collection of more than 40,000 game records of pro games, in SGF format, John Fairbairn's Go Names Dictionary, tournament data, etc. A great resource for every go player. |
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| GoBase | ||
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Jan van der Steen's site with go news, lots of game records, and other go-related stuff. |
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| Go Teaching Ladder | ||
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Send one of your games to the Go teaching Ladder, and get a review by a stronger player! This is definitely a good way to improve. All the reviews from the past are available from this web site, too, so you could also play through some of them. |
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| Mind Sports Zine: Go | ||
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These pages are part of the site of the Mind Sports Olympiad. Unfortunately they are not updated anymore, but there are a lot of interesting articles and essays available. |
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| Charles Matthews' go articles | ||
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Several excellent article series by Charles Matthews, covering the basics of go, but also very advanced material, like the 10 articles on ko. |
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| Pieter's Columns | ||
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The enjoyable and instructive article series by Pieter Mioch: Gentle Joseki is an overview about some well-known and not so well-known joseki, and Daigo is an extremely detailed commentary on one of Pieter's games. In addition, there are a few interviews with professionals. |
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| Flygo | ||
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This chinese site has a lot of go resources, including game records, and go problems. Even those who can't read Chinese, like me, can get something out of this site. Using an automatic translation engine may help thos who do not know Chinese. |
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| Sensei's Library | ||
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A Wiki about the game of go: everybody can add comments, and corrections, or even create new pages. Created in November 2000 by Arno Hollosi and Morten Pahle, it now (August 2006) contains close to 14,000 pages, and is steadily growing further. |
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| 361 points | ||
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Sorin Gherman's pages with advice about studying go (Sorin was an insei in Japan), a blog, etc. |
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| David Mechner | ||
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Includes an essay on how to get strong at go; well worth reading. |
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| Bruce Wilcox' Go Dojo | ||
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A number of "computerized interactive tutorials". |
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| Kogo's Joseki Dictionary | ||
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This is a huge SGF file with lots of joseki variations. The project was started by Gary Odom. |
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| GoAma newsletter | ||
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A go newsletter edited by Alexandre Dinerchtein and others. |
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