THIS PAGE points to a pot-pouuri of popular topics that don't quite find a place elsewhere.
Who or what is the biggest, the longest, the mostest in go? We focus on competitive pro
games, of course, but with the odd digression...
- SHORTEST GAMES - A breviary of
brevities...
- LONGEST GAMES - Extended play...
- MOST FAMOUS AMATEURS - Games by
amateurs who found fame away from the go board...
- RULES INCIDENTS - What happens in those extreme cases when the rules (or the players) break down...
- GO FANS - a survey of fans signed by famous
players with explanations of their mottoes...
- GO PERIODICALS - a look at the wide range of material available in the Orient...
- GO GONGS - Go players honoured by their Government...
- Plus GO PRIZES for go people honoured by their peers...
- FAMOUS GO BOARDS - The Snow, Moon and Flower boards, fit only for a Meijin...
- KUBOMATSU'S CENTRAL THESIS - The theory behind tengen as first move...
- GATEWAY TO ALL MARVELS - A selection of named
problems from one of the greatest classics of all times, with the names fully
explained...
- ADVICE FROM THE KANSAI KI-IN - Top pros come
together with their tips on how to improve...
- GO TERMS - a detailed look at some terminological inexactitudes...
- Weird lore of ladders - was John Bauer to blame...?
- Sente and kikashi - do you really know what you are doing...?
- Sabaki - how to cope in a hostile world...
- GO PLAYERS' STYLES - Who's thick and who's greedy...
- A 9-DAN PROBLEM - A way to live that made even a 9-dan proud...
- A GO SYLLABUS - Advice from Takemiya's international college on what to study...
- MANE-GO - Does plagiarism pay? Learn how to avoid mimickry...
- LADDERS IN GAMES - Pros rarely let ladders happen. See the results when they do...
- PROBLEM CAMEOS - An unusual range of problems from three different books...
- ROBERT JASIEK'S RULES FAQ - Confused? Area scoring? New Zealand rules? Here are the answers...
PRO COMMENTARIES - in directory CBase you will find a growing selection of commented games. Most have been
specially commissioned for GoGoD from senior Chinese pro Wang Hongjun 7d (right), who was a regular member of the
Mingren League and who has finished in the top six in the National Championship. He was also the first teacher
of the Chinese prodigy Liao Xingwen. We also include commentaries by classic players such as Honinbo Shuei,
Honinbo Shuei and Xu Xingyou.
The commentaries are ordinary sgf files and can be viewed on any reader, although our own CBase reader is
included...
- KOGO'S JOSEKI DICTIONARY - Gary Odom's hugely popular and massive joseki dictionary (fully annotated and
comprehensive) is also available in the Third Party directory. You view it using any sgf reader capable
of holding very big files. We recommend both Kombilo and SmartGo Viewer from the same Third Party directory,
but there are many others. The edition here is as of 24 March
2004. For updates check out Gary's site.
- THE AVALANCHE JOSEKI - One particular joseki is best studied here, as GoGoD
has a massive collection of around 1,500 games featuring it.
- SPECIAL COMMENTARY - A detailed and innovative look at a Meijin title game...
- THE APE WHO COULD PLAY DIPLOMACY - A lesson in humility from Taiwan...
- NYOBUTSU'S JUDGEMENT - A knotty problem for ancient rules mavens...
- GAME DAY AT THE SHISHOKAI - A glimpse of activity in Honinbo Shuei's study group...
- ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE - Why the Ryokusei Academy is now Japan's leading pro school...
- PERFORMING SEALS - Not all pros approve...
- GO MISSION TO CHINA - An old photo brings back memories for Go Seigen...
- THOUGHT FOR THE DAY - Go in other words...
- A SELECTION OF GO SENRYU - Satirical poems that lift the lid on our rawest emotions...
- DREAM POOL ESSAYS - How go inspired early mathematicians...
- GO IN NORTH KOREA - Doing what diplomacy can't...
- INSIGHTS FROM TEACHING PRO - Prodigy's teacher helps beats the queues...
- GO ON COMPUTER - How the prodigy above trounced the computer world champion...
- GO CENSUS - How many people on the planet can play go...?
- BLIND GO - The visually impaired show you don't need two eyes to play good go...
- KOREAN NAMES - Why are they such a nuisance and what can we do about it...?
- THE INSEI SYSTEM - How pros become pros...
- With a sidelight look at life as a live-in student in the Kitani school...
- GO WORLD INDEX - Jochen Fassbender's professional index to the world's premier English-language go magazine
- BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MEIJIN - Our own reporter and camera with Cho and Yoda...
