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# **Go**

Play Go, the ancient strategy game, online against friends or the bot. Pick 9x9, 13x13 or 19x19.

2 - 2 Players

Bots available

**Open Lobbies**

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## **Leaderboard**

| Rank | Player | Rating | Games | Win Rate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

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## **Pick your board**

Play online against friends or the bot, with time control, take backs and proper counting. One click opens the lobby with the right board size.

**For beginners**

## **Atari-Go**

The first player to capture a stone wins. You learn liberties and capturing without having to worry about territory and counting yet.

**Engine Support**

### **Play against bots**

Challenge strong bots and improve your gameplay. Adjust the bot strength to your level!

- ![Go Bot]()

  **Go Bot****Easy****Medium****Hard**
- ![KataGo]()

  **KataGo****Medium****Hard****Very hard****Impossible**[**Source code **](https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo)

## **Go in 7 steps**

The rules fit on a beer mat. The strategy will keep you busy for a lifetime.

1. **1**### **Place**

   Black starts. After that you take turns placing a stone on an empty intersection, or you pass. Once a stone is down, it doesn't move.
2. **2**### **Liberties**

   The empty neighbouring points of a stone are its liberties. Connected stones share their liberties.
3. **3**### **Capture**

   A move that takes the last liberty of an opponent group captures it and removes it from the board.
4. **4**### **No suicide**

   A stone without liberties may not be placed. The exception: it captures opponent stones in doing so.
5. **5**### **Ko**

   A single stone that just captured a single stone may not be recaptured immediately.
6. **6**### **End**

   When both players pass in a row, you mark the dead stones. Here it's a white stone inside black's area.
7. **7**### **Count**

   Surrounded points are territory. Whoever has more points under the chosen scoring wins.
8. ### **Ready?**

   The 9×9 board is perfect for your first game, against a friend or the bot.

## **Two ways to count**

You pick the scoring in the lobby. It hardly ever changes the result, only how the points are counted.

### **Area (Chinese)**

living stones + territory + komi

Every stone of yours and every surrounded point counts. Prisoners don't matter, so moves inside your own territory cost nothing.

**Black**

**15**

5 stones + 10 territory

**White**

**10**

5 stones + 5 territory

### **Territory (Japanese)**

territory + prisoners + komi

Surrounded points and captured or dead opponent stones count. Unnecessary moves inside your own territory cost a point here.

**Black**

**10**

10 territory + 0 prisoners

**White**

**5**

5 territory + 0 prisoners

Example without komi: the totals differ, black's lead of 5 points is the same. In a game white receives komi to make up for moving second: choose 0, 0.5, 5.5, 6.5 or 7.5.

## **Everything you need for a game**

### **Play the bot**

Easy, medium or hard. The bot passes when there's nothing left to gain and counts correctly.

### **Time control**

From bullet to classical, with a bonus per move or no clock at all.

### **Take back**

Misclicked? Ask your opponent to take back the move.

### **Move list & replay**

Step through the whole game with the arrow keys.

### **Fair counting**

Mark dead stones together and see the result live.

### **SGF export**

Review your game in any Go program.

### **Spectate**

Follow running games live with clocks and move list.

### **Rated games**

Play for your spot on the leaderboard.

## Sitemap

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