Go on the Internet
If you do a "web search" for Go-related pages, you will find that Go is a useless word to search for. Try baduk (Korean) and weiqi (Chinese) instead. Baduk is the better of these, giving few false positives (it is a word in Basque) whereas Weiqi is also a Chinese personal name.
You might also try "Go board game" or
| 囲碁 | Japanese for Go | |
| 圍棋 | Traditional Chinese for Go | |
| 围棋 | Simplified Chinese for Go |
Playing Go against someone else
There are several Go servers out there, where you can play in real time or by correspondance.
Other Go Software
See our Computers and Go section.
Visit Other Sites
See our collections of links for British Go Sites and other English Language Sites.
Discussion sites
Social Networking Sites
The internet has various social networking sites. We have a presence on two of them. If you use another, why not help set us up on that too?
We have had a group on Facebook since March 2007 and well as the usual features, such as the message wall which includes our RSS news feed, we invite Facebook members to announce forthcoming Go events.
We (britgo) have been posting tweets, with links to our website, off and on since April 2009.
Email lists
There are several Go-related mailing lists which you can join. The way a mailing list works works is that an item of email, sent once to the address of the mailing list, is automatically forwarded to all members of the list.
You often join or leave a mailing list by sending a message to a robot. The robot will only be able to read straight text. So if you send it html, or anything else other than plain ascii text, it will not work. Most failed attempts to join mailing lists are caused by Outlook Express deciding to send email in mime, html, or some other format, without its user realising that it is doing this. Also, some software won't permit the sending of an empty subject - if you have this problem, set the subject to a single space.
Some lists are joined by filling in a form on a web page.
Information about unsubscribing, lost passwords and so on, for our lists, is also available via each list's information page.
| Mailing List | How to join | How to leave | Address to send to the list |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gotalk An open mailing list run on behalf of the British Go Association. It is a forum for all British Go players, for general discussion of the game of Go. We have some basic rules for using this - see our Communications Policy for more details. | Visit http://lists.britgo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gotalk. You will find some general information about the list and a form where you can fill in your email address and a password. After you have clicked the "subscribe" button wait to receive an email with a title like "gotalk -- confirmation of subscription -- request 123456" The purpose of this message is to prevent other people subscribing you to the list against your will. Please reply to this message according to the instructions. Some time later you will receive an email with the title "Welcome to the gotalk mailing list". |
The welcome email tells you how to unsubscribe. | gotalk @ lists.britgo.org |
| Computer Go | Visit http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go and follow the instructions. This is not run by the BGA. | Unsubscribe via the same webpage (bottom section). | computer-go@computer-go.org |
Bulletin Boards
The internet has several bulletin boards (discussion boards, message boards) about Go. The main one of these is:
If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.