The GameOfGo Web-Ring: http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=weiqi;list.
The GoTeachingLadder is a mustvisit place for people on the net and have less than 6 months substained playing experience.
SenseisLibrary is THE WIKI on GO / WEIQI / BADUK
Gobase http://gobase.org is a large repository of game records and articles.
There is also an active UseNet newsgroup news:rec.games.go (although it recently has been filled with crank posts).
Many free internet go servers exist, including
- Dragon Go Server: http://www.dragongoserver.net/ (turn based, for those who don't like to spend hours playing a game, yet want to play many games at the same time)
- Internet Go Server: http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/
- KGS: http://www.gokgs.com/
- Legend Go Server: http://www.lgs.hinet.net/eng/
- see also http://senseis.xmp.net/?GoServers
Also there is a freeware go program, a 9x9 version of the ManyFacesOfGo available at http://www.smart-games.com/igowin.html (but remember http://senseis.xmp.net/?IgowinIsBadForYourGame)
The OpenSource GnuGo is now on par with the commercial programs, and it has been ported to many platforms. Downloads available from http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html. That page also has a number of Go related links.
For those people interested in an editor/viewer for go games (which can also let the user play against GnuGo), there is a decent freeware at http://www.ruijiang.com/multigo/
See also GoOnLinux.
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