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From: Jan van der Steen <Jan.van.der.Steen@cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Mar 1995 12:06:34 -0800



What's Go?
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Go is a thinking game with an oriental origin estimated to be
around 4000 years old. Nowadays, the game is played by millions
of people in (most notably) China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In
the Western world the game is practised by a yearly increasing
number of players. On the Internet these Go players meet, play
and talk 24 hours/day on the Internet Go Server (IGS). Connect
with:

<URL:telnet://igs.nuri.net:6969/>

or exchange information on the newsgroup

<URL:news:rec.games.go>


Information on Go
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To get started you should try:

<URL:http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html>

a page which interfaces to lots of information on the game,
including a five minute explanation of the rules of the game
illustrated with lots of diagrams. Please try it, you won't
be disappointed.


Go Events
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Recent events in the professional, amateur and cyberspace Go
scene are closely followed and being reported on:

<URL:http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html#proevents>
<URL:http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html#amaevents>
<URL:http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/go.html#cyberspace>


WWW Go Game Database
--------------------
People who would like to get acquainted with the professional Go
scene or would want to study the game of Go more seriously, can
now access the WWW online professional Go Game collection:

<URL:http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/go/games/games.html>

These pages contain games of the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and
Taiwanese Go Scene, as well as biographies of the featuring
players. The game collection is categorised by country, and
accessible by event (tournament), free text search and player
game collection overviews.


Jan van der Steen

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Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl
Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
The World Wide Web "http://www.cwi.nl/~jansteen/"



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