Introductory Material

New To The Game

If you are new to the game you might want to start here.

Thanks to Paul Smith of Cambridge Junior Chess & Go Club, the British Go Association hosts a set of Introductory Problem Sheets.

We are grateful to Leandro Marcolino of Lancaster Go Club, for allowing us host his problem book for children:
•	problem book (a 50 page pdf suitable for an e-reader)
•	solutions (pdf)

An easy to read multi-lingual beginner’s guide

The target group is people that:
•	have never heard of the game (so it contains the basic rules); and
•	DDK players that want to rise to SDK (more advanced material)

The American Go Association has produced a free introduction to the game (pdf). 50 pages to be printed or downloaded for an e-reader.

They also have a set of videos for beginners

There’s also an online guide from Pandanet.

This is a fairly comprehensive tutorial site.

The Go board comes in a number of sizes: 19×19, 13×13 and 9×9. The 9×9 game is a good place to start:
•	A 9×9 tutorial game – part 1
•	A 9×9 tutorial game – part 2

Shawn Ray has produced a complete introduction to the game.

Go Magic is an online teaching site and has produced an introductory course.

Putting Go stones on a crowded board without disturbing the others can be tricky. So here’s a video on how to pick and place a Go stone.

Look at our You Tube channel for lectures and other video material we have produced.

AI Sensei provides high quality AI analysis of your games and other AI resources. It’s free of charge for basis use.

Daniel Hu, 6D writes on Go theory.

(1) How Alphazero has influenced Go strategy (pdf) here
(2) Approaches to static position analysis (pdf) here

We host the T Mark Hall reference collection along with other books donated or otherwise acquired. All additions gratefully received

We are grateful to Amisha Muni for being our volunteer cataloguer and librarian..