Playing GO on the
Internet
There are several places on the Internet where
you can play or watch games of Go.
The original site, which is still the busiest and most popular,
is the Internet Go Server (IGS), currently located in Seoul, Korea.
You might be able to simply connect to IGS(telnet://igs.joyjoy.net:6969/)
(using telnet if you would like to try it out, but this will give
you only a simple scrolling ascii text interface, which is hard
to use. There are "client programs" available at ftp://www.joy.ne.jp/igs/Go/igs_clients
for almost any computer, and these will give you a much nicer
graphical user interface which will make using IGS easier and
more enjoyable. I would suggest trying winigc if you have
a Windows PC, or GoServant if you have a Macintosh. The
GoServant client for the Macintosh was written by the author of
this page, and the lastest
version of GoServant for 68k Macs and the latest
version of GoServant for PPC Macs may be obtained directly
from its home site, if you wish.
A more recent arrival is the No Name Go Server (NNGS). You can
connect to NNGS using
a simple telnet connection, but almost all of the client
programs will work with NNGS as well as IGS, including the
lastest
version of GoServant for 68k Macs and the latest
version of GoServant for PPC Macs .
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