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Go is the oldest board game in the world. Believed to be over 4000 years old is second only to Oware for age. It is regarded as the most complex of games with the 361 intial opening moves still making the game well beyond the currnet computer programs. The game has a great deal of etiquette and history. The ultimate combination of shape and concentration. It can still have the emotiuons run high. One top level match is recorded as 'black lost by an illegal move' but this was a polite way of saying black threw the board on the floor! The grades can be a little confusing as you start off trying to derease your kyu to 0 before trying to up your dan (as in martial arts). There are two dan ratings professional and standard so you can be mislead.

Rules

You can find out about opportunities to play Go live at the timetable. Please report any external links that have broken or have changed to contain inappropriate material. More information about how tournament play works can be found in clocks and in MSO rules.

MSO Go Champions

YearNameCountryFlagTitle
2012 Felix Wang England Olympiad Champion
2011 Matthew Cooke England Olympiad Champion
2010 Bulent Tuncel Turkey Olympiad Champion
2009 Mathew Cocke England Olympiad Champion
2009 Tony Atkins England Olympiad Champion
2008 Felix Wang China Olympiad Champion
2007 Kyung Nang Kang South Korea Olympiad Champion
2006 Alistair Wall England Olympiad Champion
2005 Alistair Wall England Olympiad Champion
2004 Carl Ragnarsson Sweden Olympiad Champion
2003 Haiou Li China Olympiad Champion
2002 Matthew Macfadyen England Olympiad Champion
2001 Matthew Macfadyen England Olympiad Champion
2000 Guo Juan Netherlands Olympiad Champion
1999 Shutai Zhang China Olympiad Champion
1998 Shutai Zhang China Olympiad Champion
1997 Z. Guo Netherlands Olympiad Champion

Full results and other winners can be found in Results.

MSO Go Ranked Players:

GRANDMASTERS:

  Alistair Wall, Haiou Li, Matthew Macfadyen, Piers Shepperson, Seong June Kim, Shutai Zhang, Tony Atkins, Z. Guo

INTERNATIONAL MASTERS:

  Alex Selby, Bei Ge, Carl Ragnarsson, Paco Garcia De La Banda, Paul Smith, Shoichi Sakagi, Tim Hunt, Young Jang

CANDIDATE MASTERS:

  Francis Roads, Juan Guo, Masashi Sugiyama, Vladimir Danek, Xinyi Lu


MSO Go - 13 x 13 Ranked Players:

GRANDMASTERS:

  Shutai Zhang

INTERNATIONAL MASTERS:

  Tim Hunt, Vladimir Danek

CANDIDATE MASTERS:

 


MSO Go - Pairs Ranked Players:

GRANDMASTERS:

 

INTERNATIONAL MASTERS:

  Natasha Regan, Sylvia Kalisch

CANDIDATE MASTERS:

 


External Links

http://www.gokgs.com/
http://www.361points.com/computergo/#gnugo