As promised, here are a few on-line go resources that are useful to those who want to get stronger. These are primarily resources for English-speaking players.

I’ll start off by mentioning the American Go Association and American Go Foundation web sites. If you’ve played in an AGA tournament, you’ll want to look yourself up in the AGA Tournament Database.

Sensei’s Library is wiki dedicated to the game of go with a huge amount of information. This is the first place you want to go if looking for study material.

If you want to discuss the game with other players or get game reviews, you can join GoDiscussions.com or The Tiger’s Mouth, the American Go Foundation’s youth site.

If you want to play online, the first place I’d start is KGS, which is the easiest and friendliest go server for an English-speaking audience; particularly for beginners and intermediate players.

If you have a game you’d like reviewed, or you feel like reviewing someone else’s game, you can check out The Go Teaching Ladder.

Stronger players may be interested in studying pro games. Go Game World and Go4Go offer commented pro game records. GoCommentary.com offers videos commenting on famous professional games as well as really outstanding instructional videos for intermediate level players.

EidoGo is the software used to embed game records in the blog here, but also has a easy-to-use joseki dictionary and searchable pro game database.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, but should get you started.

"Sunday meetings are getting HUGE!"

Sunday meetings are going nuts! In addition to our usual regulars, we’re getting at least one new person almost every week. Yesterday we had three completely new people. We’ve also had a bunch of people asking about the club though the web site and passers-by inquiring about this mysterious game we’re playing. Several of the players at Rob’s chess club have also expressed curiosity about go and have started showing up.

I want to take a moment to encourage everyone to bring equipment with them to the meetings if you have it. Because we do have quite a few beginners who don’t have their own, we sometimes are at risk of running a little short. If you don’t bring a board you can’t complain if you get the crappy plastic one where the stones don’t stay put!

We took a some photos last week, I’ve posted a few below the fold.

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