Computers Go Resources

If you are a beginner please have a look at our Top Picks for Beginners which gives our initial recommendations for you.

With a computer, you can:

• play Go against it - we have got an interesting history page about computer Go and a page about the success of AlphaGo
• play through recorded games on it, and make records of games
• study joseki, life and death and other aspects of Go
• use it for preparing diagrams of Go games and positions

With internet access, you can:

• play Go against other people on a real-time Go server
• play Go by correspondance
• read Go-related pages of the World Wide Web
• read a newsgroup or forum about Go
• discuss Go by email
• download software from our catalogue - you can view our recent software reviews and earlier reviews

Technical Documents

• Configuring a browser to recognise SGF files: Jan van der Steen gives good explanation of how to do this configuration at http://gobase.org/games/SGF/SGFandWWW.html
• Resources for programmers