OGS External Links

Here are our links to external sites, in no particular order, and an image for if you wish to advertise our site. Please note that we are not responsible for the content of any external sites we link to.

OGS is hosted by the non-profit French organization nainwak.org (mostly in French). They provide help for non-profit web games. You can support them throught the OGS subscription system.

Go Basic Learning Resources

PlayGo interactive - This is an absolute must for a beginner wishing to learn some of the simple Go principles
Sensei's Library - The main internet Wiki and everything Go-related. The following are three of their most useful pages for beginners to learn from:
  - Sensei's "Pages for Beginners"
  - Sensei's "Beginner Study Section"
  - Sensei's "Basic Instinct Section"

OGS Resources

OGS Notifier - This is a Windows program which will sit in your system tray and tell you when it's your turn to move in your games. It is a more functional replacement for the Game Monitor.

Other Go Learning, News and Information Sites

GoBase - The largest international resource of Go games and news on the internet
Go4Go database - An excellent collection of game records with daily updates, including commented games by A.Dinerchtein (1-dan pro), complete with RSS Feeds for regular updates
"Goama", International Go Magazine - Go news, theory, commented pro games, books and equipment reports, interviews and articles about Go
Online Go Lessons - Go lessons by "breakfast", 1-dan professional
Go test - Get your rank for entering Go servers and tournaments!
Go problems - A great collection of Go problems, with varying types (life and death, connection, fuseki etc.) and varying difficulties.

Other Go servers

Dragon Go Server (DGS) - The longest standing turn based Go site on the net
Kiseido Go Server (KGS) - A java based real-time go server, with a web client and a downloadable client (CGoban, see SGF editors)
Internet Go Server (IGS Pandanet) - The original internal Go server, also real time, with a lot of professional game coverage and teaching sessions from professional players
It's Your Turn - A site offering a number of correspondence / turn based games, including Go
Free Internet Correspondence Games Server(FICGS) - Primarily a correspondence chess site, it also offers Go tournaments

Clients / Programs / SGF Editors

CGoban - This is both an SGF editor and a client for KGS
Panda-glGo - This is both an SGF editor and a client for IGS Pandanet, and has a number of nice features, including a 3D board view
Igowin - This a basic free 9x9 go playing program, with a progressive handicap facility to try and make sure that the game stays close. Highly recommended for beginners to get used to the game
Many Faces of Go - Currently on the fairly new version 11.0, and made by the same people as Igowin, this is a superb training partner for players from 25 kyu up to about 5 kyu, and costs 90 USD
SmartGo - Another retail piece of software that acts as IGS Pandanet client, Go opponent, problem library, professional game library (over 38000 games) and position lookup utility. Retails at 89 USD
MultiGo - A popular and versatile SGF editor that supports multiple formats of Go game files, and use it to play the free Go engine Gnu Go

Other useful Go pages

Sensei's Turn-Based Go Server List - This is another list of turn-based Go websites
Turn-Based Go Guild - This is the turn-based Go Guild, Including links and tournament results
Wikipedia Article on ELO & Go - This is an article about how ELO and Go are used together.

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