Go Links

Commercial Sites

American Vendors

• Kiseido — publisher of books on the game of Go.
• Samarkand — Janice Kim's company. Very nice.

• Go@Yellow Mountain Imports — looks interesting and also deals with other games (like shogi etc)
• Slate & Shell — books and tools for Go players.
• Go Catalog @ Yutopian
• The Game of Go @ Ibuki Trading Post
• Japan Go Imports — mostly equipment — boards, stones, bowls...
• Ishi Press — there seems to be some controversy around this one!
• Go Store@GoDiscussions.com — usrs can share/sell/buy digital content.

European Vendors

• Shaak & Go Winkel het Paard — major european vendor.
• The Trading Centre — Go game specialists. books and more.
• WeiQi Store — a brand new european vendor (Apr.2007)
• e-go.pl — polish Go vendor.

Asian Vendors

• Kuroki Goishi [english] -- equipment mostly. high-level.

Go Software

Study Aids & Tools

• Moyo Go Studio — a class by itself.
• SmartGo — games, library, matching, IGS client, problems.
• MasterGo — games database, search engine, all the works...
• BiGo Assistant — full featured Go games/fuseki/joseki database.
• Go Game Assistant — a comprehensive tool for Go games.
• StoneBase [english] -- games database & sgf editor
• GoGoD — database & encyclopedia.
• Kombilo & Kombilo@GoGoD — go database program.
• MadLab Tesuji Solver — includes several hundred tesuji problems to solve
• GoGrinder @ SourceForge — program to help you study tsume-go problems
• Go2000 — full-featured Go database management system with pattern matching.

Go Playing Programs

• Go-Playing Programs@Computer Resources@BGA
• IGoWin@Smart Games — free 9x9 version of Many Faces of Go.
• GNU Go & GNU Go @ FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
• Moyoman & Moyoman @ SourceForge — open-source Java player.
• Many Faces of Go@Smart Games — probably the best program for learning the game.
• Go++ — maybe the world's strongest Go playing program.

SGF Processing Programs

• Drago — browse, edit, print, and export SGF games.
• GoWrite — a good sgf editor and game printer, now in Java.
• Hibiscus — view, edit, and replay games.
• MultiGo@Rui and Xi's Home — view & edit SGF & other formats.
• Kombilo & Kombilo@GoGoD — games database program.
• Dariush — edit sgf, play against engines, connect to igs, and more (also has separate sudoku program)
• WinMGT — SGF editor and games database program.

Other Software

• Hikarunix — operating system dedicated to Go.
• MadLab Tesuji Solver — ?

Go Teachers

Professional Level

• Feng Yun Go School — Feng Yun (chinese 9p) -- teaches from New Jersey
• Ang-Yue Internet Go School — Li Ang (chinese 3p) & Li Yue teach Go (where?)
• breakfast — personal page of A.Dinerchtein (1p)
• Guo Juan's Internet Go School — Guo Juan (chinese 5p)
• Catalin Taranu @ GoBase.org — Catalin Taranu (japanese 5p)

Amateur Level

• Christian Pop — european 7d.
• FJ Dickhut — european 6d, also teaches in german.
• Cornel Burzo — european 6d from Romania (Cornel on KGS & IGS)
• Dragos Bajenaru — european 6d, from Romania.
• Matthew Macfadyen — european 6d, 4 times European Champion.
• Vit Brunner — european 4d.
• Sensei — teaching page of K.Giedroic, lessons in polish <Krzysztof Giedroic>

Schools

• The baduk-School
• Warrior's Go Academy — Go in schools
• Internetowa Akademia Go — the Polish Internet Go Academy