How to play Go "Beginner's Go"

UNBALANCE Corporation

About this game

Ishikura Noboru is a regular lecturer on the Japan Broadcasting Corporation's weekly TV go program. He is noted for his easy-to-understand explanations.
Now his original go course is avilable on Android.

By studying his explanations and the problems he presents, you will quickly learn to play go.

Beginner's Go has five special features.

1. Easy-to-understand explanations
These are Ishikura's original explanations.

2. Easy-to-follow diagrams.
The moves are smoothly played out on attractive graphics.

3. Suited for anyone who wants to learn how to play go
An easy-to-understand course for all beginners

4.Three steps to understanding go
Explanations, practice, and problem-solving will hammer home the basics of the game.

5. An easy-to-understand glossary of go terms.
The convenience of having the most important go terms gathered in one place.


Contents of Beginner's Go

Explanations:
What is go?
The rules
After you've learned the rules -- 9x9-board games
After you've learned the rules -- 19x19-board games

Problems:
Capturing stones
Exploiting defects in your opponent's territory
Linking up stones
Capturing races
Life and death

Ratings and reviews

not only a great app, but the best resource i have found so far for learning go (I don't have a teacher).The criticism of being too short is unwarranted: I find there is a lot of content to go through. Shows how to manage a game from start to finish, and builds your mastery incrementally

I love this app and it helped me understand more than what I knew from just playing. Only thing I have to say is as a go player I know there are more for a 30 kyu to learn before he/she is ready for a game. If the developers of this app can do it I'll love to see fuseki and joseki here too. And maybe learning games we can play from first move to last so that we can learn from to improve.

This is a tutorial, not a game app. This app will teach you how to play go and introduce you to a solid foundation of strategy. Every example is explained quite well and you can step forwards and backwards through every example as needed.

What's new

Fixed some minor issues.