Table of Contents
Learning Go from scratch
Playing on OGS
- You must create an account to play.
- Go to Play screen, use Quick Match finder. Turn 9x9 on and 19x19 off, and click Normal (5 minutes maintime, then overtime of 30 seconds per move).
- Challenging a friend:
- Top left menu
- Search (top menu item – it’s hard to see!)
- Type first part of their name
- Click their name
- Challenge
Black to Play problems
Reviewing with AI
- KaTrain GUI (comes with KataGo engine) to review games with AI
101Weiqi Progressive problems
- This site does have total beginner problems, but since the site is in Chinese it’s probably only worth the trouble when you get to ~15kyu or stronger. But it’s the best curated collection of problems out there:
- 101weiqi
- howto guide
- timed problems (45s)
- untimed problems - automatically adjusts to your level
If you have other suggested resources please let me know. Especially if you’re a beginner that recently started learning, let me know your opinion of the various resources you used.
Rough equivalence of Go ranks to Chess ranks
- Traditional amatuer ranks start at 30-kyu and work up to 1-kyu. Then dan (black belt) ranks start from 1-dan and go up.
- Professional players have a separate rank system 1-dan (1p) to 9-dan (9p).
- Every server/organisation has very different difficulties for ranks
- These assume OGS ratings. Asian servers (Fox etc) and AGA is easier, EGF harder
- 30k-20k = Beginner
- 19k-10k = Casual player
- 9k-1k = Club player
- 1d-3d = Expert
- 4d-6d = NM
- 7d+ = IM
- 1p-9p = GM
Playing IRL
Go Board
Go stones