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World Pair-Go Play off match (Romania)

The second game.

Lee Sedol - Gu Li (13th LG Cup 2009)

The first game of the LG final. After a crazy game, Gu Li beats Lee Sedol. (brief comments)

A game against Cornel Burzo & Bela Nagy

The first game is over, you can find it in the Go Library / Teaching Games. The next game will start in August.

Featured poll

If you could play a game with any Go player in the world, who would it be?

Cho U
Yamashita Keigo
Lee Sedol
Gu Li
Chang Hao
Piao Wenyao
Iyama Yuta
Lee Changho
Cho Chikun
O Rissei
Takemiya Masaki
Kobayashi Satoru
Wang Lei
Other (please post below)
Takao Shinji
Go Seigen

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Some books we loved

Basic Techniques of Go by Haruyama Isamu and Nagahara Yoshiaki
This book is an attempt at writing an all-in-one book for single-figure kyu players, covering tesuji, fuseki, handicap games at nine, six and four stones, and the endgame.

Lessons In The Fundamentals Of Go by Toshiro Kageyama
My personal favourite!

Dictionary of Basic Joseki by Ishida Yoshio
It's published in three volumes. Unfortunatelly, some of the josekis are not considered equal anymore.

Tesuji by James Davies
A great tesuji book for people around 10 kyu.

Graded Go Problems For Beginners by Kano Yoshinori
The four volumes cover a large range of fundamental knowledge that every player must acquire to the point that the answers to these problems become obvious upon first glance.

Attack and Defense by Ishida Akira and James Davies
The fifth volume in the Elementary Go Series, just great.

Kato's Attack and Kill by Kato Masao
Who doesn't like Kato's play? :)

The Endgame by Tomoko Ogawa and James Davies
If you want to master the endgame, start with this book.

Best baduk players in the world and others

Honinbo Sansa founder and first head of the house Honinbo.
Honinbo Dosaku fourth head of the house Honinbo. One of the greatest players of all time, and the first Kisei (go saint); an important influence on go theory.
Honinbo Jowa was dubbed Kisei (go sage), played the famous "Blood Vomiting Game" with Akaboshi Intetsu.
Honinbo Shusaku greatest player of the 19th century - the "golden age" of go.
Honinbo Shusai the last inheritor of "Honinbo" title, and founder of the Nihon-Kiin.
Kensaku Segoewas famous for bringing and teaching Go Seigen and Cho Hunhyun in Japan.
Go Seigen (Wu Qingyuan in Chinese), is considered the greatest player of the 20th century.
Kitani Minoru great friend and rival to Go Seigen. Go and Kitani were the vanguard of the Shin-fuseki or "New Opening", a great advance in go theory
Sakata Eio "Razor Sakata", the "Master of myoushu" (brilliant move) former longtime holder of most championship titles with 64.
Rin Kaiho was one of Go Seigen's students. Known for winning many titles at a young age.
Kato Masao Master of attack style.
Yoda Norimoto has one of the best track records in international tournaments for Japan
Ishida Yoshio youngest ever Honinbo winner and one of the strongest players of the 1970s. TV commentator.
Takemiya Masaki famous for his 'cosmic style', aiming for territory in the center of the board rather than the sides
Kobayashi Koichi third most titles in Japan with 55.
Cho Hunhyun was the second strongest player in the world in 2000, after his former pupil Lee Changho.
Cho Chikun (Cho Chihun in Korean) among the best players of the last century - passed Sakata in late 2002 for most titles with 66.
O Rissei one of the first Taiwanese Go players to become a professional in Japan.
O Meien famous for his "Meien-isms", a special way of opening a game.
Rui Naiwei first woman to attain rank of 9-dan
Michael Redmond first non-Asian (American) to attain rank of 9-dan. TV commentator.
Catalin Taranu highest pro rank amongst european players.
Naoki Hane in 2002, Hane broke the record for fastest promotion to 9 dan in Nihon Ki-in history.
Nie Weiping challenged for many top international titles in the late 1980s.
Ma Xiaochun top player in China during the 1990s.
Chang Hao second best player in China in 2009.
Gu Li best weiqi player in China in 2009.
Lee Changho is considered one of the strongest players in the world.
Yamashita Keigo
Cho U in 2003, Cho U broke the record for fastest promotion to 9 dan in Nihon Ki-in history.
Lee Sedol In 2003 "Yi Se-tol" became the youngest 9-dan pro in history. He is considered one of the top few players in the world in 2009.

Baduk for all has been launched!

The purpose of this website is to create a large database of games and situations, ranked and categorised, mostly commented, free to every GO player around the world.

We want to achieve that by involving you, the GO player.

Register and GO ahead, read the blogs, forums and interviews, browse the files and tournament informations and post your own.

GO, Baduk, WeiQi

This website focuses on an ancient board game called GO in Japan, Baduk in Korea and Weiqi in China.

The first written reference about GO comes from China (548 BC), where it was perceived as the game of the aristocraticy and it was considered one of the four cultivated arts along with calligraphy, painting and playing the musical instrument guqin.

GO was introduced around year 700 in Japan and was one of the favourite game of aristocraticy. After 1300, the first professional GO players appeared which resulted after 1600 in GO houses (the four GO houses), first one being the Honinbo, founded by a budist monk, Honinbo Sansa.

GO was brought to Europe by Oscar Korschelt around 1880 and in US by Edward Lasker around 1905.

More about GO on Wikipedia.