FTS-100 The Game of Go, Fall 2005
- Helpful information
- Instructor: David Wolfe
(click here for office hour information)
- Course schedule (all assignments are here)
- Handouts:
- Course syllabus
- Overview of The Go Masters
- 9x9 Go boards in postscript format:
one 9x9,
six 9x9's,
four larger 9x9's.
- 19x19 boards in postscript format:
one 19x19,
four 19x19's
- 4-4 point joseki in sgf format.
Save the file to your home account, then open using cgoban.
- Writing assignments and oral presentation:
I recommend you use the services of the campus Writing Center.
- Why I signed up for a course
about Go
- How to play Go
- Movie review
- East Meets
West presentation
- East meets West and
related peer-review assignment
- Go as a Metaphor
- Go boards, stones and supplies:
- Samarkind (Good Move Press)
- Kiseido
- Yutopian Enterprises
- Learning to play Go on-line
- The Interactive Way To Go
(mirror of
http://playgo.to/interactive/)
- Kiseido Go Server (KGS)
- Go at Yahoo Games (not as
good as KGS)
- Go problem web site
- Rob van
Zeijst's column, The Magic of Go in The Daily Yomiuri.
- General academic links
- Library
resources for this course (created by Michelle Twait)
- Strudy strategies (from the U of M, Deluth)
- LASSI scales
- Top Go sites (according to Philip Waldron)
- gobase.org: For many people this is the first -- and the last -- go resource on the web. Containing the latest go news, game records and general interest articles, GoBase always has something for everyone:
http://gobase.org/
- Sensei 's Library: A collaborative resource written by contributors, Sensei's Library may be the most extensive go resour ce on the web. Articles cover a variety of topics, including possibly the best discussion of endgame theory published anywhere:
http://senseis.xmp.net/
- GoProblems.com: Containing over 7000 go problems, this is a great source of problems about all aspects of the game:
http://goproblems.com/
- The Go Teaching Ladder: A great site containing nearly 5000 commented go games. Users may search the database for games of interest and can submit their own games for analysis:
http://gtl.xmp.net/
- David Carlton's Go Bibliography: Run by American go player David Carlton, this web site contains reviews of most English-language go books and many other books from Korean and Japan:
http://gobooks.info/
- The go publishers and distributors: Kiseido, Yutopian, Slate & Shell, Samarkand and (in Europe) Het Paard. The web sites of the major English-language go publishers and distributors. See what's available and what's coming soon:
http://www.kiseido.com/;
http://www.yutopian.com/go/;
http://www.slateandshell.com/;
http://www.samarkand.net/;
http://www.schaakengo.nl/
- go4go.net: A great site with the latest game records and the news about the professional go scene. For a subscription fee, the site offers email delivery of commented professional games:
http://www.go4go.net/v2/
- Hikori Mori's "The Interactive Way to Play Go": A great page for teaching the game to beginners. This page presents the game of go to beginners in 35 steps with interactive tutorials:
http://playgo.to/interactive/
- MSO World: The go page of the Mind Sports Olympiad, this page has not been updated since 2001. It nevertheless includes many fascinating articles by John Fairbairn about go history and personalities:
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/go.html
- The American Go Association and the European Go Association: The best sources for news about go events closer to home:
http://www.usgo.org/;
http://www.european-go.org/
- Fall 2005 presentations:
- Baseball in Japan and US
- Music in Ireland and Thailand
- Weddings in Indonesia and US
- Industrialization in China and England
- Dances in Ireland and Korea
- Transportation in Japan and US
- Etiquette in Japan and England
- Danielle
- Baseball in Japan and US
- Family in Taiwan and US
- Hinduism versus Christianity
- Food in Philipines and US
- Government in USSR and China
- Gambling in China and US
- Family in Japan and US
- Soccer in Korea and US