American Go E-Journal
March 16, 2021
Color Go Server, a brand new Go server geared towards beginners, promises to inject a little fun and a lot of learning into beginner play. The programming includes basic Go server features, allowing players to play, watch and review…
February 26, 2021
Bob Bacon reports that earlier this month, several Chinese news organizations such as Xinhua Net and SINA English reported that the People's Publishing House and the Chinese Weiqi Association have jointly published the Chinese-English…
February 22, 2021
The Spanish translation of the Multilingual Go Book Project's book joins the already existing English, French and Greek translations and is now available. This is yet another step in the project's goal of making Go content more…
December 24, 2020
BOARD N'STONES, the English-language branch of primarily German-language Go books publisher Brett und Stein Verlag, has published a translation of Yamada Shinji 6p’s book on AI techniques, which became available in Japan in December…
June 6, 2020
Visualization of ownership predictions by KataGo "There’s something magical about the game of go," writes Branton DeMoss in a recent blog post. "For thousands of years, it has captured the imagination of those who want to learn what it…
June 6, 2020
The AGA believes that the health and safety of its members, and their communities, is a greater priority than in-person play. For this reason, the AGA is continuing to suspend all AGA-sponsored in-person events. The AGA recognizes the…
May 25, 2020
After being alerted to payment issues within the AGA Membership Manager the tech team consulted and patched the issue. The payments are now working again. If you have had an issue in the last month with using the membership manager to…
May 23, 2020
The KGS Go Server just got easier to join and use. The Java client for KGS has been an ongoing problem for some computers and blocked by many schools. The KGS Home Page features a new link to sign up for a free account . Using ShinKGS ,…
May 22, 2020
BadukPop has added several improvements in its latest update, including the ability to play against artificial intelligence. The popular go problem app, developed by Hajin Lee 4P and Dan Maas, works on both Android and iOS. The…
April 8, 2020
The coronavirus lockdown has inspired creativity in developers, and Shawn Ray has released a Go club simulator that is designed to give online players more of an in-person Go club feel. After being inspired by Haskell Small's pioneering…
March 25, 2020
NYIG_Go , the YouTube channel of the New York Institute of Go and the New York Go Association, launched a brand-new series, ‘Epic Battle,’ earlier this week on March 22. This series, produced, directed, and edited by Allen Moy,…
March 8, 2020
Four years ago today, the whole world watched as a computer program took on one of the top go players in the world. And won. From the historic AlphaGo-Lee Sedol showdown in Seoul in March 2016 to the release of AlphaGo Zero in November…
March 1, 2020
BadukPop is a new mobile app that provides Go problems with fun visuals and game mechanics featuring a 3D-animated Go board, a curated library of Go problems for all levels, and a global leaderboard. Players start at Level 1, low…
February 24, 2020
The five volumes of Janice Kim's popular Learn to Play Go series are now available as ePubs from SmartGo Books, which opens them up to readers on Android and Windows. "Janice Kim’s award-winning series takes the complete beginner…
February 10, 2020
Need some fresh life-and-death Go problems for inspiration? Check out Spindrift: Leon Chen 4p's Original Tsumego, featuring 136 original tsumego puzzles of various levels written in both traditional Chinese and English. It is available…
January 23, 2020
Beginning just after the 2019 US Go Congress in Madison, a group of AGA developers have been meeting to discuss software after the historical slow development of the tech used within the AGA. These developers have begun a renewed effort…
December 15, 2019
Columbus discovers Go: "Devin Fraze can teach you how to play Go in about two minutes." That's the lead in the "It’s always Go time for enthusiast of ancient game" report last month in ThisWeek Community News, about the Columbus Go Club…
December 10, 2019
Playing go on a traditional goban is one of the joys of the game. But aging knees pose a painful obstacle. Former AGA president Phil Straus elegantly solved the problem with help from fine woodworker Sylas Navar. The table he designed…
December 7, 2019
Board N’Stones have just released the sixth and final volume of the Black to Play! series by Gunnar Dickfield, available in books stores as a paperback or as an ebook from gobooks.com . The Black to Play! series begins in the first book…
December 4, 2019
-Paul Barchilon, AGF Vice President and KGS Liaison The AGF is instituting a series of changes to the KGS Go Server to make it more available and more useful as a tool for promoting go. As a first step, KGS+ events will now be free with…
October 6, 2019
In a September 7th article titled "Battle algorithm," The Economist writes of a "paradox" that may be familiar to readers who analyze their games using Leela Zero and other AIs. "AI might at once penetrate and thicken the fog of war,…
August 28, 2019
Plenty of go players have tested their hand against Leela, but what about Bender, or Fry? Ever wanted to play a go game against Dr. Farnsworth? Andreas Hauenstein has modified Leela Zero - an open source superhuman-strength go program -…
August 27, 2019
Would you like to have a t-shirt that shows a Go board with a Go stone getting captured? How about a tank top that depicts a ko fight? Tenuki Normal is a new clothing brand offering apparel with Go-themed imagery. T-shirts are available…
August 25, 2019
by Brian Olive Regular readers of the American Go Association E-Journal will be well-acquainted with the contributions of William S. Cobb, both as author of The Empty Board , a column published regularly in this journal for many years,…
August 22, 2019
Earlier this year, the E-Journal reported on Haris Kapolos’s Multilingual Go Book project , the goal of which is to create a book “that could circulate in libraries, schools, universities and game shops… in more languages [than just…
August 21, 2019
The American Go Foundation has purchased 12 new go sets designed for the visually impaired. Both black and white stones are slotted on the back, and click into a 19x19 grid, with a 9x9 grid on the backside. Black stones also have a…
August 17, 2019
ArenaGo is a new Android app that contains over 50,000 professional matches searchable by player, country or date. Nice stone graphics, flags to represent nationality, and the ability to select favorite players might interest go…
June 25, 2019
Robert Jasiek has released two new endgame Go books, his 15th and 16th. " Endgame 3 - Accurate Local Evaluation " distinguishes local gote from sente endgames objectively and evaluates local endgames accurately. "Even for long local…
March 15, 2019
Reading interactive go books used to be limited to iPad, iPhone, and Mac. "Not any more," says SmartGo publisher Anders Kierulf. "Most of the 134 books at gobooks.com are now available as ePub, so you can also read them on Android and…
March 14, 2019
Deep Learning and the Game of Go by Max Pumperla and Kevin Ferguson, teaches all the aspects of deep learning that went into Alpha Go. It is complete with code in Python3, with all code based upon building a go-playing program starting…