Promoting Go in the UK and beyond
Self Study
The British Go Association and its members provide various resources for use when studying Go.
In order to get better at Go, as well as playing lots of games against different people, it is
useful to study. This can be using the many books the BGA sells, by
attending one of the teaching
events the BGA organises or using various materials both on this website and off.
Members can sign up to the Shodan Challenge and be assigned a stronger player as a mentor, in order to focus their studies.
The BGA Analyst will arrange to get members' game records reviewed by stronger players.
We have a page of Go Problems which are a good way to study.
Game records
Various collections of electronic records are available on line or on disc. The GoGoD collection has been created on disc by two of our members, T Mark Hall and John Fairbairn.
The American Go Association
allows BGA members to receive the full members’ version of its weekly American Go
E-Journal, which includes excellent teaching material, in addition to Go news
from around the world. Members who wish to receive this should use the
sign-up form.
There is also software for various platforms to allow you to record games and produce game diagrams.
Other Web Sites
There are many other web sites that are available in English and that provide Go resources. Most interesting of these are gobase.org (for news of pro events), goproblems.com (for collections of Go problems), godiscussions.com (for online debate) and Sensei's Library (wiki Go encyclopedia).
As an alternative to Sensei's Library, we have our own glossary and repository of explanatory information called "In the Dark?"