The BOARD and the STONES How can we CAPTURE something? No SUICIDES please No ENDLESS REPETITION either END of the game and COUNTING Bonus quiz FAQ

This section is meant for players with little to none experience with the game.

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Alive (IMMORTAL) groups CUTS DOUBLE atari! LADDERS NETS SNAPBACK SEKI (barely alive) Playing UNDER the stones Bonus quiz

For players who already played some 9x9 games and are interested in some local fighting techniques.

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What to do in the OPENING Is ENDGAME important? Make some SHAPE Most common beginner MISTAKES Understand a PROFESSIONAL game

For players familiar with 9x9 who want to switch to the 19x19 board.

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Where can you PLAY? Where can you LEARN more? Where can you ASK QUESTIONS? DICTIONARY of Go terms?

This site was made for the love of the game and our community. If you found a mistake contact me (AdamR) on the OGS, I will try to fix it as soon as possible. My sincerest thanks to all the members of the OGS community who were very supportive in my efforts and kept trying to make it as good as possible. Most notably:

Lucas Westermann
Who managed the whole technical side of the project and patiently kept explaining what I need to press to make it all work.

Kosh (Faith manages), Joshua Batson
Who both wrote a portion of the texts, spent their evenings crawling through heaps of my horrible grammar and overall lifted the quality of the site monumentally.

This website uses (jGoBoard), and (very slightly modified) (WGo) javascript libraries.

This website (and costs of running it) are small, and for now I am lucky enough to be able to afford the costs of running it without trouble. However, if you REALLY like what we did, have nothing better to spend on, and would like to make sure it stays online for other beginners as well, consider sending a dollar my way. Thank you for even considering.

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