Other Go Clubs in Philadelphia and vicinity...
Philadelphia Baduk Association
An AGA Chapter, open every day, 7 days a week, just outside the Philadelphia city limits! Founded in 2001, our city's strongest players reside here!
Montgomeryville Go Club
Meets Sundays from 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. at Borders Booksellers, 801 Bethlehem Pike, North Wales, PA 19454, 215 412-2655, at Airport Square across from Montgomery Mall. To join their mailing list, please email Neil at nlzod at comcast dot net. Free. Founded in 2007.
Guang Hua Wei Qi School
An AGA Chapter, this is a class of the Guang Hua Chinese School, a nonprofit organization that promotes the understanding of the Chinese Language and Culture by operating a school, sport, and cultural program on the weekends at Montgomery County Community College in Parkhouse Hall, 340 DeKalb Pike, Blue Bell, PA 19422-0758. The Guang Hua school's primary focus is to teach children Chinese, but there are also classes in art, sport, and of course, Wei Qi ("Go" in Chinese)! The class is co-taught by J. Q. Zheng and Michael Dobbins. Meets Sundays from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Beginners are welcome, but pre-registration for the class, which runs in the fall and the spring, is necessary. Please visit their website for further details.
Lancaster Go Club
An AGA Chapter, meets every Monday evening from 6:00 p.m. onwards in Salunga, PA. Meet Chuck & Sam, two of the American Go Association's hardest working members, and also marvel at Chuck's extensive library of Go books! Great for beginners and experts alike. To contact them for directions, please email Chuck at crobbins at ctipc dot com. Free. Founded in 1995.
Delaware Anime Fans (DAF) Go League
Delaware is back on the map with the state's only official AGA Chapter, run by the indomitable Latasha James and crew!
Go vendors...
Slate and Shell
A great site for Go books and equipment, particularly Yilun Yang's "The Fundamental Principles of Go" and Michael Redmond's "ABC's of Attack and Defense".
Samarkand
A great source for Go books and supplies, including Janice Kim's "Learn to Play Go" series (5 volumes and growing).
Kiseido and Kiseido Digital
Go books and supplies, including the excellent 4-volume problem book for beginners, Kano Yoshinori's "Graded Go Problems for Beginners".
Kiseido Digital offers the entire 30-year collection (and growing) of "Go World Magazine" for sale on DVD, or sample and purchase individual issues in pdf format, as well as a host of out-of-print Ishi press Go books, like Kato Masao's "Kato's Attack and Kill" and Takemiya Masaki's "Enclosure Josekis".
Yutopian Enterprises
Go books and supplies. Want to get an inexpensive Ing Set? This is the place to go.
Yellow Mountain Imports
Another Go company based in California, this store specializes in Chinese Yunzi stones and bamboo sets, in addition to the usual Go equipment offerings.
Kuroki Goishi Ten
A classic Go manufacturer based in Japan. Founded in 1917, this company manufactures its own boards, stones, and bowls; available separately or in complete sets. The site also explains the different grades of wood used in bowls and gobans, and the different grades of shell used in creating white Go stones (along with the many defects which may occur). Want to see what a $100,000 Go board looks like? Visit their Gallery of Wonderful Goods.
Go schools...
Feng Yun's Go School
North America's strongest player, Feng Yun, 9p, resides in central NJ and offers Go lessons each fall and spring, ranging from Beginner to Advanced, in various locations throughout the state. Sign up today!
Guo Juan's Go School: One Euro Audio Go Lectures
Go lectures and instruction given by Guo Juan, 5p, a perennial favorite at the U.S. Go Congress. This site offers audio commentaries of professional games, Go theory, and also a step-by-step instuction to the game. The audio is simulcast with a KGS board set-up, where the moves are displayed as she speaks. Check out the free lecture portion of the site where she reviews some pro games and you will see why this site has become so popular! All lectures cost only 1 euro each. Pay 1 euro, watch 1 month! What could be easier? Paypal accepted.
Kuro Neko Go School
Founded by Jonathan Markowitz, a student of Feng Yun's, in the fall of 2007. A local favorite with affordable rates and an inimitable teaching style, Jon's lectures are not to be missed!
Go blogs...
Studying Go in China
Curious about what it would be like to spend a summer studying Go in China? Read a detailed account of the experience from an American 1-dan right here. Summer 2006.
Studying Go in Korea
Curious about what it would be like to spend three months studying Go in Korea? Read a detailed account of the experience from Seattle Go Center Program Director Jon Boley 6-dan, who studied Baduk at Yang's Dojang in the Seollung district of Seoul. Fall 2006.
Sorin Gherman's Go blog
A Romanian-born AGA 8d recounts his experiences as an insei and shares his insights on the modern Go scene! Begun in January 2007.
ChiyoDad Learns Go
A beginning Go player navigates his way through the world of Go. Begun June 2005 and updated regularly.
Places we like to frequent...
American Go Association
Want to find a club near you or start one of your own? Here is where you want to be.
Internet Go Server (I.G.S.)
A free Go client based in Japan
K.G.S. Go Server (K.G.S.)
A popular, free, American-based Go server
Dragon Go Server
A free, turn-based Go server
Korea Times Baduk Page
Free, in English. A superb site for beginners: a professional Go player from Myongji University, Korea, explains basic and advanced Go theory for all stages of the game. The initial 89 lessons have been removed from the Korea Times webpage, but they have been archived at the Myongji University website here and are also available in book form here.
Gobase.org
A site to replay professional games, keep abreast of the latest tournament information, practice life and death problems, and more
go4go.net
Another excellent site to replay professional games
Sensei's Library
A reference guide for all things Go related
The Magic of Go
This began as a long-running weekly Go column written by Rob van Zeijst, 7-dan, in Japan's leading English-language newspaper, the Daily Yomiuri. The newspaper column wrapped up on August 18, 2007, but the columns, both old and new, still live online. The old site may be found here. Free. In English.
The Go Teaching Ladder
A great way to have one's games reviewed for free
Annotated Go Bibliography
The most comprehensive review of Go books to be found online
An Online Joseki Dictionary
A compendium of corner patterns
Goproblems.com
A collection of 2000 problems (and growing)
GoDiscussions.com
Got a question about Go? Check here for a popular, moderated forum.
Any questions? Please email co-organizers Peter Nassar at pnassar@vet.upenn.edu or Matt Bengtson at matt@mattbengtson.com.