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British Go Journals - The Archive

These pages reproduce a selection of articles from old British Go Journals. The html articles reproduced are the 'go-ish' ones - games (since Autumn 1999 in sgf format), tutorials and problems - whilst news, tournament results, humour and so on are usually omitted.

Note: the PDF files are often several MB in size, but no larger than 10MB, and may therefore have slow download times. Internal and external links inside these files work from BGJ157 onwards and external links in previous issues, but there are no links for scanned copies, i.e. issues up to 118.

Printed backnumbers of British Go Journals are also available.

These archives are presented here as a service to the worldwide Go community. Feel free to read, study and print a copy of the pages for your own use. Making multiple copies of these pages or the information on them - in particular for any commercial activity - is prohibited.

The article pages are created by volunteers in a sporadic fashion and it may take many years before it's reasonably complete. Each journal listed below also shows the month that the web pages or pdfs for that issue were last updated.

  • Within each article, headings and diagram names are shown as links.
  • The game files are linked from both the article and the contents page of the relevant issue. You can download these files for immediate or later viewing.
  • These web pages have no concept of the printed page. Some browsers need to have the window resized to conveniently fit across the paper width. Most browsers will cut diagrams in half as they start a new page - you will need to use scissors and glue!
  • [Start] Each page ends with this upward pointing triangle which takes you back to the top.

A glossary of Go terms used in the articles is available. Try boshi as an example.

Diagram technical info

Mixed whole and half point GIFs: GifGuide.txt provides a list of the many tiny GIFs which are used on most of the pages. Bd19x19.txt provides the raw html for an empty 19x19 board. A 'quick and dirty' QBasic program to generate the board html code (ENTERGO.BAS) is available from http://www.stocton.org/tools.htm#entergo without charge or guarantee.

Configuring browsers

To view *.go files:

  • Netscape v2.02: Ensure that a viewer is associated with the filetype *.go and that double clicking on a *.go file in File Manager or Windows Explorer will correctly launch the viewer with the *.go file.
  • MS Internet Explorer v3.0a: Select View; Options; Programs; File Types; Add - then set
    • Description = Ishi Format GO files
    • MIME Type = application/x-go
    • Suffixes = .go
    • Encoding = Text
    • Application = c:\wingroup\utils\yago.exe %s Or whatever application you use
    • Service Name = No entry required

Configuring browsers to read *.sgf files is similar.

There is also a list of available BGJs sorted in order of web updates.

Go to the most recent issues

This is the index of a series of back issues of the British Go Journal.




Last updated Thu Jan 26 2012. If you have any comments, please email the webmaster on web-master AT britgo DOT org.