Promoting Go in the UK and beyond

The BGA web site hosts various technical documents. They are generally quite boring, unless you are actually looking for technical information on that subject. They, and some other technical pages, are indexed here.

Ratings and Gradings

• BGA promotion guidelines for promotion of UK players to dan grades.
• Ratings FAQ
• Former BGA promotion system

Rules

• See the Rules section.

Guidelines

• BGA Website Styleguide
• British Go Journal submission guidelines
• Organisers' Handbook

Computer Software

• Specification of the Go Modem Protocol used for communicating between Go-playing programs.
• Specification of the Ishi Format (.go) for records of Go games.
• Specification of the Smart Go Format (SGF) for records of Go games.
• Computer Go Resources.
• Advice for Programmers.