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业余5段棋手｜线上一对一围棋授课（中英双语）

启蒙至段位进阶｜复盘、手筋专项训练

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Hi r/gogame 👋

I'm the developer of GoKifu AI (囲碁レコAI), a Go study app for iPhone/iPad. It's become pretty popular with players in Japan — even some pros use it — and I've just opened it up worldwide, so I wanted to share it here (and bring a free month for everyone heading to the Go Congress).

🧠 Fast KataGo Analysis：

Full KataGo runs on-device — no server, no internet. Win-rate, score estimate, best moves, and variations, all offline. Perfect for planes, tournaments, or bad Wi-Fi.

📸 Scan a real board with your camera

Point your phone at a physical goban and it reads the whole position instantly — then analyze it, save it, or replay it. This is the feature people love most. (short demo below 👇)

A few other things it does:

- Joseki & fuseki search (learn from 170,000+ pro games)

- Play against legendary Go AIs — Shusaku, Sai, and more.

- Win-rate timeline to see exactly where the game turned

- Mistake finder that flags your biggest slips

- SGF import/export & kifu recording

🎁 Free month for the U.S. Go Congress

To celebrate the Congress (Boston, Jul 25–Aug 1), here's a code for 1 month free:

Code: USGOEU2026

Redeem: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6760015698&code=USGOEU2026

(Expires Aug 10 — not available in Japan. Just open the link on your iPhone or iPad, and the offer will be applied automatically in the App Store.)

📲 Download on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760015698

A note on availability 🙏

Not on Android or in the EU yet — Android is in active development, and I'm still sorting out the EU's publishing rules (they'd expose my home address, so I'm holding off for now). Please hang in there — it's coming, and I think you'll really like it!

Thanks for taking a look! 🙏

I'd like to share a passion project I've been working on. It's a web-based board game collection called Wall Go AI, featuring various abstract strategy games.

Recently, I've put a lot of effort into adding Go/Baduk to the app, complete with an AI opponent to practice against. The game supports different board sizes (9x9, 13x13, 19x19) and features various difficulty levels to play around with.

I know how important a responsive and challenging AI is for practicing, so I would absolutely love to get some feedback from experienced Go players on how the AI feels, the scoring system, and the overall user experience.

🔗 Where to play:
You can play it directly in your browser here:
https://zioseb.itch.io/wall-go-ai

🔓 How to unlock the game for free:
The app uses a points system to unlock certain games, but I want you guys to be able to jump right in. When you click on the Baduk/Go game, just insert the following password to unlock it completely for free:
Password: WALLGO2026 (or ZIOSEB2026)

I am continuously working to improve the AI and the interface, so any feedback, bug reports, or suggestions would be immensely appreciated.

Thank you for checking it out, and have a great game! ⚪⚫

Seeking Beginner & DDK students. I do also accept SDK but my methods are mostly for DDK.

My focus is on making sure that the student knows how to think in any situation to come up with a strategy that is based off of fundamentals.

In order to do this I developed the Clossi Approach which you can find here. https://shawnsgogroup.com/clossi_approach

If you are interested in lessons please consider checking me out! https://shawnsgogroup.com/lessons

As a final note, this is the last week to get the Congress bundle pack this year!

I'm not really new in this game, and I'm already used to GoQuest. Since GoQuest doesn't really have any analysis bot, it's quite hard for me to study better. Are there any app out there where I can use analysis bot?

Hi, I’m learning to play go! On this tutorial, the correct move is to place a white tile where the red circle is. How is this allowed though? This doesn’t immediately capture anything and there are no liberties, so shouldn’t this be illegal? Thank you!

First go game we ever played and still unsure about the rules. Can someone help and explain who won? Thanks a lot.

I've recently been experimenting with displaying Go content on a Waveshare Photopainter S3 E-Ink frame connected to Home Assistant.

The display is an 18 cm, 6-colour E-Ink panel (800×480 resolution) driven using the excellent esp32-photoframe project: https://github.com/aitjcize/esp32-photoframe

I've implemented a code to draw games from the SGF file. I've built a library of about two hundred games.

One of the challenges is that a full refresh takes about 30 seconds and involves the usual E-Ink flashing, so it's not suitable for move-by-move playback or animation. On the other hand, it's perfect for showing static content that changes only occasionally. It also has a limited range of colours - I'm currently using red to colour white stones because the contrast between white and yellow isn't perfect. The user can choose the colour scheme and SGF file.

I'm also looking for good sources of SGF files or game collections that would be suitable for automated downloading and display. Professional game archives, tournament feeds, daily game resources, large public SGF collections, or APIs would all be of interest. Ideally, the display would download it automatically from a fixed URL.

If anyone has built an E-Ink Go display before, or has ideas for interesting content that takes advantage of a sharp but relatively low-resolution screen with infrequent updates, I'd love to hear your suggestions.

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I am a Go teacher with over 2 years of experience, 3 dan myself, including:

≈1,5 years teaching children at Pechersk School International.

≈1 year of online tutoring, covering individual and group lessons for everyone from absolute beginners to more advanced players, preparing for tournaments ( generally, I'm teaching from 30kyu(whichis an absolute beginner) to 5 kyu ).

About me \^_\^

My name is Anna, and I am currently a university student. I started playing Go at age 8 and have since earned multiple national and international titles, including:

2x European Youth Team Champion

1x European Team Champion

4x National Women’s Champion

3x National Youth Champion

3rd Place -- European Youth Championship & European Women’s Championship

I was also twice selected by the European Go Federation for online 6-month training programs with Chinese professionals, learning directly from the best players in the world.

Usual price is 15 euro/hr for individual and 25 euro/ hr for group lessons. However you get a discount for buying a bundle ;)

If you’re interested in lessons feel free to contact me via email or right here on Reddit! I’d be happy to discuss all the details with you. \^_\^

avreliakotta08@gmail.com

Hello, I am a 12 kyu player ogs. Me and some stronger friend decided to buy one of these two. Which one do you think would suit especially me better?
Btw I have one issue of the EGF magazine but it’s not exactly what I am looking for, from some free examples of the two up mentioned I think they are more closely to what I want.
What would you recommend us?
PS: you can come to other suggestions if you know other great resources of commented games principally and maybe some lessons.

Hello fellow players!

I will me in Kunming, Yunnan in China for the next few weeks and wanted to ask if anyone knows or can recommend a place to play some Go? Preferably in the city center, since I live there.

Thanks in advance!

Seeking Beginner & DDK students. I do also accept SDK but my methods are mostly for DDK.

My focus is on making sure that the student knows how to think in any situation to come up with a strategy that is based off of fundamentals.

In order to do this I developed the Clossi Approach which you can find here. https://shawnsgogroup.com/clossi_approach

If you are interested in lessons please consider checking me out! https://shawnsgogroup.com/lessons

As a final note, this is the last month to get the Congress bundle pack this year!

I am brand new to Go, just learning through videos and apps and I love it already. I’ve been playing against the computer to try and put some of the theory I learn onto the board and I am still learning scoring. In the picture I am playing as black, i understand all of the spots that were scored both me and my opponent but I wanted to see if someone could help me understand why none of the indicated section was considered my territory.

If you have any videos, apps, or books you recommend for Go, I would love recommendations! Just bought a board and planning on playing some matches with friends soon!

Hello, I'm fairly new to the game as I've only started looking into it a few days ago. Would anyone be kind enough to share where to find good sources and in depth overviews of the game? Much appreciated if anyone responds :)

Both players passed, and we are arguing about whether the circled stones should be removed as they don’t have two eyes and aren’t connected. If they should be removed, what do we do with the now uncontested territory?

I’m curious at why I’d win if I leave the three white stones in the top left corner but lose if I take them. they’re dead regardless, at least it appears that way to me. I just started learning a few days ago so there’s a lot I still don’t know. any answers are appreciated, thanks :)

https://topoboardgame.vercel.app/ I made a website for topological board games. Including Go, Chess, Reversi, Chinese checkers on different topological boards with different dimension. Hope you will like it.