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The NAGF pro qualifiers are underway. Really grateful to Devin craze and baduk club for going the extra mile to add some real sparkle to the broadcasting side of thingss!

These guys do a pretty nice job of covering the news of the professional go scene in English for everyone! Iv found its been a cool way to get into the world of professional go and learn more about the players and the rivalries and the stakes being played for. Check them out!

With 50 spots open the NAOL is extending registration to July 19th. This gives players 5 more days to join. The first game will be July 25th and the league will run to August 22nd....

Game I played this morning as White where I lead for most of the game and ended up winning. However both players missed a huge move. A thermonuclear fusion tesuji if you will. Can anyone spot the move that would win black the game from the jaws of defeat?

How am I supposed to start playing it?

A game I played a few years ago against a bot while I was learning the game. Cat decided to come finish the job (I was white and its black to play)

Its so great to see a baduk community on the fediverse. With the recent change of reddits API Iv been pretty passionate about contributing to real, working, free and open source alternatives. I hope we can get some traction going!

Some example pics/vids...

Tsumego Hero is one of my favorite online tsumego sources, along with 101weiqi. I like the large number of problems from different collections and being able to do subsequent related problems for a topic, in contrast to random problems like on blacktoplay....

Besides this being a news for Ichiriki Ryo now had a lead of 3 to 1 against Iyama Yuta (just 1 more win to get the Honinbo title), the scoring of this game also showed a quite rare situation, when they played more than 361 moves (total 364 moves for this game). One side completely filled up during manual scoring, and had to...

I have been playing Go with my friend (who has a Chess background) for a while now. We started on 19x19 boards but he found it really overwhelming and struggled. He wanted to switch to 9x9 and we have now played several 9x9 games....

I've come across "diagram" in translations from Chinese weiqi sources, but I'm not sure what is meant by this. Would the usual term in English be something like game record/kifu, opening patterns/fuseki, patterns generally or an idea that's not got an easy translation?...

This is a game played on June 19 between Ueno Asami (as black) and Fujisawa Rina (as white). At move 159, Asami cut with K14....

One of the main aspects of the subreddit I enjoy is the monthly review/help threads. even though I never actually posted in one for help, reading through the reviews left for other people's games always felt really helpful as someone starting out with the game!...

I’ve been using AI to review my games for a while, but how do you personally use AI to learn?...

Kids are creative, and smart kids will get bored very quickly, even if repeat exercises are necessary practice for them....

I’ve heard of the “carving” about weiqi, but never actually saw it, or even saw a picture of it till I start researching the history....

Portrayal of the Physician Hua Da Scraping the Bone of Guan Yu to Treat an Arrow Wound (Hua Da hone o kezurite Guan Yu ya-kizu o ryoji suru zu), Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1853...

I’m not entirely sure how Go plays into this story, but it’s a wild print that shows Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who had apparently been in the middle of a game of Go, fighting the legendary Yōkai Tsuchigumo (土蜘蛛, i.e. Earth/Dirt Spider), a giant spider demon that lives in the earth....

This is from an exhibit at the Suzhou museum last year. The topic of the exhibit is - "Restoration of Peace, the Four Faces of Han Dynasty Civilization", about archeological finds from Han Dynasty China near Suzhou....

And if you haven’t played yet, what’s stopping you?

Great tutorial for anyone who wants to learn how to play. Gomagic does a great job with all their videos.