British Go Journals.

The E-Archives.

These pages reproduce a selection of the articles from 'ancient'^* British Go Journals. The articles reproduced are the 'go-ish' ones – games, tutorials and problems – whilst news, tournament results, humour and so on are usually omitted.

You can purchase complete printed backnumbers of British Go Journals.

* Over 3 years old. Games from more recent journals can be found here.

The BGJ E-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 many copies of these pages or the information on them – in particular for any commercial activity – is prohibited.

The pages are being created by volunteers in a sporadic fashion and it may take several years before a reasonably complete archive is achieved. Each journal listed below also shows the month that the web pages for that issue were last updated.

• Within each article, headings and diagram names are shown as links. On most browsers, clicking the link will position that point at the top of the browser window.
• The articles are diagram intensive and will not be very readable if using a text-only browser.
• Where an article is of a game, the game record is available both in Ishi (*.GO) and in Smart Game (*.SGF) formats. The game files are linked from both the article and the contents page of the relevant issue. You can download these files for later, or, if your browser is suitably configured, for immediate viewing.
• These pages are produced without frames. If you wish to view game diagrams whilst scrolling the text, try tiling two browser windows side by side, both with the same URL.
• When printing the pages, note that 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!

BGJ Index

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

• BGJ 0. Spring 1967 (Sep99)
• BGJ 1. Summer 1967 (Jan00)
• BGJ 2. Autumn 1967 (Jun01)
• ...
• BGJ 8. Spring 1969 (Jun00)
• BGJ 9. October 1969 (Oct00)
• BGJ 10. December 1969 (Aug01)
• BGJ 11. March 1970 (Oct01)
• BGJ 12. August 1970 (Apr00)
• BGJ 13. April 1971 (Jul02)
• BGJ 14. June 1971 (Mar00)
• BGJ 15. Autumn 1971 (Sep98)
• BGJ 16. March 1972 (Jul99)
• BGJ 17. June 1972 (Jan00)
• BGJ 18. October 1972 (Feb00)
• BGJ 19. January 1973 (Dec02)
• BGJ 20. July 1973 (Apr99)
• ...
• BGJ 40. Feb 1978 (Dec04)
• BGJ 41. May 1978 (Mar00)
• ...
• BGJ 54. October 1981 (Jan01)
• BGJ 55. March 1982 (Apr02)
• BGJ 56. June 1982 (Jul04)
• ...
• BGJ 60. September 1983 (Aug98, Jan01)
• BGJ 61. March 1984 (Nov99, Jan01)
• BGJ 62. July 1984 (Feb 01)
• BGJ 63. November 1984 (Sep98)
• BGJ 64. March 1985 (Mar99)
• BGJ 65. July 1985 (Aug01)
• BGJ 66. November 1985 (Apr99, Jan01)
• BGJ 67. April 1986 (Sep99)
• ...
• BGJ 92. Autumn 1993 [The first 25%, the Feng Yun articles.] (May00)
• ...
• BGJ 106. Spring 1997 [Just one article on byoyomi.] (Aug03)
• ...

A glossary of Go terms used in the articles is available. When you click on them, usually a separate window will open with the definition in it. The new window may be hidden underneath your main browser window.
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 19*19 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.

Each page ends with this upward pointing triangle which takes you back to the top.