How to play Go (If you don’t know the rules at all yet)
(taken from Go: A Complete Introduction - by Cho Chikun)
The Interactive Way To Go (Interactive way to learn the rules, but before trying your first game, , great place to start day 1)
Sensei’s Library (great site to explore and learn the language of Go)
Wiki for all things Go related, best place to look up Go terminology, japanese terms, fundamental concepts, go proverbs, etc. Proverbs / Fundamentals examples below:
Extension from a wall (Sensei’s) (Proverbs are never set in stone, but useful nonetheless)
One-point jump is never bad (Sensei’s)
Even a moron connects against a peep (Sensei’s)
Hane at the head of two stones / Three stones (Sensei’s)
Don't use thickness to make territory (Sensei’s)
Don't push from behind (Sensei’s)
Four die but six live (Sensei’s)
Click here for the rest of the Go proverbs (Sensei’s, play 100 games before clicking this one)
Speak english? OGS and KGS are good servers to start on. Ask for help in their chats!
Shape 101 Dsaun’s Shape Lecture on KGS (1st hour is perfect for new players!)
(The best lecture on the fundamentals of shape I have ever seen to date)
Common shapes in conflict Article based on Fan Hui's book (watch Dsaun’s lecture first)
Bases 101 (Nick Sibicky) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRaFpY7gelc (necessary!)
Opening strategy on 19x19 (Nick Sibicky) (necessary!)
Opening Theory Made Easy - Hideo Otake (book)
81 Little Lions - An introduction to the 9x9 board for advanced beginners
Clossius Lecture on Small Boards
Hikaru No Go - Japanese Anime based off of the manga of the same name. Responsible for reinvigorating Go in modern day Japan and spreading Go around the world.
Entire series on youtube (for now) OR https://otakustream.tv/anime/hikaru-no-go/episode-1/
Hikaru No Go - Northstar Cup (movie length special) - takes place after episode 75
Hoshizora No Karasu - The 2nd best Go Manga (the only other go manga?)
Spatula (OGS 3k) documentation of their journey learning Go How progress is made.
Shape 101 v.2 (Nick Sibicky) Shape 101
Fighting 101 (Nick Sibicky) Fighting 101
Counting 101 (Nick Sibicky) Counting 101
Direction of play 101 (Tyler Oyakawa) Direction of Play 101 (excellent!)
Direction of play 201 (Dwyrin) Direction of Play 201 (excellent!)
Capturing Race 101 (Young Sun Yoon) Capturing Race 101
Corner life and death 101 (Young Sun Yoon) Corner Life and death 101 (L-shape)
25 Days of Go (Proverbs) - playlist (Dwyrin) (Go proverbs are important!)
The Clossi Approach to Go (Clossius) - Shawn Ray article (excellent!)
step by step thought process for thinking about each position/move (this website went down but I linked a screenshot of the main questions to ask each turn from his article)
Introduction to the clossi approach - YT Lecture (Clossius)
Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go - Toshiro Kageyama (free book, excellent!)
Improve Fast at Go - Milton Bradley (excellent!)
(Another good way to learn fundamentals, this one focused on fighting)
Dwyrin - Common kyu mistakes Part 1 + Part 2
Dwyrin - Back to Basics playlist (excellent!)
Dwyrin - Ladder Anxiety
Nick Sibicky YouTube Channel
(video series - go classes for double-digit kyu players)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA1F22C258E9FF4BB
Andrew Jackson YouTube Channel
(video series - go classes for single-digit kyu players)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZsouQAtVU6RZQMAmW2J2Z3PAohVcPaq
Tyler Oyakawa (5d) channel (lectures, reviews, advanced concepts! - easy to understand)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC82wG15LsKEer_u_kpw6IJA/videos
Daniel ML (4de) (Teaching, commentating, streaming) Youtube Channel - Twitch Channel
Insente (2d) channel (lectures, reviews, beginner content as well)
Youtube Channel - Twitch Channel
Penwynn (2d) channels - (New Channel, Tutorials, beginner concepts, pro game reviews)
Penwynn Youtube - Penwynn Twitch
Invade like a pro - Cornel Burzo (Cornel11) lecture for Neighsic Go study group on OGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrhFlH6GgYc
Shape up - free online Go book about shape and beginner concepts
https://cdn.online-go.com/shape_up.pdf
Kogo’s Joseki Dictionary
Josekipedia - another joseki dictionary with more variations, some of them amateur ones
http://www.josekipedia.com/#path:qettod (better than kogo)
Waltheri’s go pattern search - search for patterns in a database of thousands of pro games.
http://gostyle.j2m.cz/ - is a web application which analyzes your Go game records, determines your playing style, strength, and gives various study hints, including a list of relevant professional players to review and book recommendations.
https://ai-sensei.com/ - AI game reviewer, browser based, great visual UI (excellent)
Brady Daniels (pseudo’s favorite)
(series - Brady’s Blunders - 10-15 minute videos highlighting mistakes in his games)
Dwyrin 7d (Battousai on KGS, pseudo’s favorite)
(Back to Basics series, go proverbs series, pro game analysis, lectures)
https://www.youtube.com/user/dwyrin Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/battsgo
CosmoGo (6d) High level play, commentary, teaching content Twitch Stream - Youtube Channel
Ke Jie, Fan Hui, and AlphaGo review Ke Jie vs AlphaGo games
Game 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIu9P9wEIsc
Game 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF486mbvAOI
Game 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUZxe7bXKxo
Official AGA YouTube Channel - American Go Association (excellent! For SDK and up)
AlphaGo reviews by Michael Redmond 9p, commentated + casted league/Tournament matches
https://www.youtube.com/user/USGOWeb/videos Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/usgoweb
http://www.usgo.org/ - American Go Association website
Yoon's Baduk Cafe - Young Sun Yoon 8p korean professional - dan level teaching content
https://awesomebaduk.com/ - Coaching platform with most resources on an affordable basic tier, and more access to professional coaches (Young Sun Yoon 8p, Yeon Woo Cho 2p, +more) in higher tiers of pricing. Worth a look. (free beginner videos)
British Go Journal archive - Go journal with issues going back to the 60’s, still active today
(most recent issues are members only, other links work for everyone)
NHK Cup games (translated commentators) - Turn closed captioning on for subtitles (excellent)
Hanayeol (6d) Channel (High level play, commentary, teaching content)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzmj06qW8ZaoW8544Sa4g5w
Stream : https://www.twitch.tv/hanayeol Website : http://realbaduk.com/
AlphaGo Teaching Tool - Tool from Google Deepmind showing alphago’s preferred moves alongside professional moves, and AlphaGo’s win % evaluation for each move
AlphaGo Zero + Master joseki - OGS Forum post, collection of alphago’s common joseki
Clossius Youtube Channel (Shawn Ray) - Lessons, Lectures, commentary))
https://www.youtube.com/user/clossius Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/clossius
Haylee’s World of Go - YouTube Channel
(2dan professional, high level play, commentary, excellent!)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTji1kQNoWIH85dB_Vxka9g
BenKyo (7d) (Teaching content, high level play, stream uploads, lessons available, excellent!)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsH0N8Hc4e4AXTnZt8Hg6fQ
Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/benky0
Xhu98 Youtube Channel (High level play, commentary, teaching content)
Lightvolty (Odnihs) 7d (High level play, commentary, casting)
https://www.youtube.com/user/Lightvolty Stream: http://twitch.tv/odnihs
Noah Doss (1k) - Go teaching and analysis, long series of videos focusing on Cho Chikun
Noah Doss Youtube
American + European Yunguseng Dojang (Sensei: In-Seong Hwang 8d)
American : http://ayd.yunguseng.com/ Eu : http://eyd.yunguseng.com/
https://senseis.xmp.net/?FlyingKnifeJoseki - Modern advanced joseki that is growing in popularity each year since 2016.
361 Points - website created by former Insei Sorin Gherman
(lessons and articles on how to improve, pro commentated games played as insei, and more)
Study Go Baduk Weiqi
Free download Go Baduk Weiqi books, life and death problem, kifu and software.
http://shinkaya.blogspot.com.au/
(PDF) The Guanzi Pu - Classic Chinese problem collection from 1660 (Level = high dan)
Leela Zero analysis tool via web browser
https://www.zbaduk.com/smartreview
“Myosu” - English language International Go Magazine (excellent!)
1st Issue - 2nd Issue (This website is DEAD?! If anyone knows where to find these issues now let me know, please)
Go To Everyone - Sleek, up to date brackets and news on tournament and league
European Go Federation Website + European Go Federation Twitch
Interesting Games
http://ps.waltheri.net/database/game/77478/ - Iyama Yuuta 9p vs. Ke Jie 9p (2017)
Kappa ^_^
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ef/f7/ea/eff7ea68207922f62b6b3dfd506a4ff2.jpg
Tsumego-hero - Awesome tsumego website, the gamification of tsumego (excellent!)
https://blacktoplay.com - quickfire tsumego problems with no setup
30kyu - 6dan rank interactive Tsumego
321Go - http://321go.org/home/?ln=uk
The website provides an online course and you can ask experienced players for help.
AlphaGo Teaching Tool - https://alphagoteach.deepmind.com/
Ghost Go - Tsumego and kifu library. Interactive tsumego for all levels.
https://www.ghost-go.com/puzzles
GoKibitz - free game reviews (upload or comment on games)
Upload or browse amateur games, active community commenting on games
Go4Go - Pro database, up to date tournament results, event calendar, Go articles, Forums.
Veterator - simple tsumego site, quick and fast tsumego from cho chikun and Gokyo Shumyo
Tsumego Collections - Problems without solutions provided
Ultimate Go Problem Collection (Shinyaka Blog)
http://shinkaya.blogspot.ca/2017/05/ultimate-go-problem-collection-now.html
1400 Commentated Pro Games (Shinyaka Blog)
http://shinkaya.blogspot.ca/2017/07/1400-commented-pro-games.html
OGS Server - new Glicko-2 ranking system update/patch info
https://forums.online-go.com/t/ogs-has-a-new-glicko-2-based-rating-system/13058
Gobase - place to search go pro’s biographies, lookup tournament and league match results and kifu. Also allows you to upload, organize and analyze your own games using their database
http://gobase.org/information/
Non English Content
(need help here, send links + descriptions to pseudocalm on OGS or pseudocalm@gmail.com)
Japanese
Igo / Shogi Tv Channel official website. News related to Go and Shogi tournaments etc.
Chinese
Leon & Andy’s Live Go - How to sandbag dans
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbU7XaChSRxFNpOimybKX0A
Go World Video - High level commentary by pro’s studying pro games
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3EbZrq8kMh1a-H2Bdeh_g/videos
Weiqi TV - official site for the chinese Weiqi tv channel
Weiqi101 - Tsumego + Kifu + other stuff
Go Game China - YT channel (includes the most popular chinese Weiqi documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGqOxieZcv7Uo4Nx4b_CGLA/videos
Yikeweiqi - browser based Go server
https://home.yikeweiqi.com/#/game
French
EncyGoPedia - Learn Go in french + Go terms, links to French Go resources,
FulGuruGo - Youtube channel, go teaching content
https://internetgoschool.com/index.vhtml - guo juan internet go school
http://britgo.org/files/bgj/bgj055.pdf - mar 1982 british go journal
http://www.laweekly.com/news/the-go-club-2130423 - LA Weekly 1999 - Koreatown go clubs.
The Ancient white ape who could play go - chinese myth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHJ2BnFx8Ak - 7% (Fine art AI documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwtiNm8K50Q - Fujisawa Hideyuki documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyw8DRTDIRg - Short, old, home made Go documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fe4qJBc1RY&feature=youtu.be - Hactar Go Lite - tsumego database widget for android
https://forums.online-go.com/t/go-memes/4337 - Go memes thread
http://playola.co/posts/4e002d - Ben Lockhart on his life (funny) from The Surrounding Game
https://senseis.xmp.net/?HumourAlmostProverbs#r4 - joke Go proverbs
http://portal.yikeweiqi.com/online/fight/online?id=3460236 - yikeweiqi server?
Leela Zero info and HUB of links - where to find up to date links and versions (excellent)
The History of Fuseki - Yunguseng lecture
Lee Sedol Interview - only the first 15 minutes are subtitled atm, (turn closed captioning on)
OGS REVIEWS for KYUS
2k Snakesss - https://online-go.com/review/402497
When you learn to capture, you are a soldier on the goban.
When you learn to count, you become a businessman.
knowledge of shape and tesuji make you an engineer, aware of structural matters in the building of groups.
but mastery of sabaki qualifies you as an alchemist, able to transform the fundamental nature of positions.
