Promoting Go in the UK and beyond

If you already know how to play Capture Go, you can play with the Capture Go Java Applet on our Junior pages.

We host Andreas Fecke's Go Comic, a cartoon introduction to Go.
The first part of this teaches Capture Go.
To learn the basics about the full game of Go, read on.

Here is a single page Quick Ref produced for the UK Go Challenge.

This Go Booklet is most complete description of how to play Go on this site.
It is available in three formats:

• An ordinary web page: Introduction to the game of Go
• The same, but broken down into four smaller pages:
  
  • Introduction to the game of Go
    
  • How to play Go
    
  • An example game of Go
    
  • Go Problems
• An older PDF version (863 KB). This will only work if you have a PDF reader, such as Acrobat, installed on your computer.

Here are the FridgeGo rules that were written for inclusion in the FridgePlay 9x9 magnetic set and have a standard set of approved Go rules.

Here are Tips for Getting Stronger (for beginners).

Some other sites which also present the rules of Go in English are:

• http://gobase.org/studying/rules/ by Jan van der Steen
• http://www.telgo.com/ by Tel
• http://senseis.xmp.net/?BasicRulesOfGo by Morten Pahle
• http://playgo.to/interactive/index.html by Hiroki Mori

Other languages

For links to rule sites in foreign languages see our Foreign Links page.

Rules used in BGA tournaments

The BGA has adopted AGA-style rules for use in tournaments, as opposed to Japanese rules as previously used. Please see rules of play for the full details.

Rules Comparisons

For a comparison between the various rules sets see our Rules Comparison page.

General Graph Go

The Rules of General Graph Go are how a mathematician may see Go.

British Championship Rules

The rules of the events of the various British championships are in the British Championship section.

Dutch Lightning Rules

The rules of Lightning Go Tournaments used in the Netherlands.

Repeating Positions

Ko, Eternal Life (Cho-sei), Triple Ko and the Molasses Ko, amongst others, are illustrated on the Repeating Positions page.

Maximum Number of Groups

What's the maximum number of live groups, or sekis, or seki strings you can have on a Go board?