General News

At Go Game Guru, we like to keep the Go news separate from other news. Here you'll find the latest news about what's been happening on our website, as well as articles that don't quite fit anywhere else.

6 new Go books (and a few others too!)

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Today we added six new Go books from Hinoki Press to the Go Game Shop and also updated a couple of older books. The highlights of the current and upcoming titles are the four new books from Valery Shikshin’s Theory and Practice of Go series and two books from the Best of Kido series…

Congratulations Younggil and Jisun!

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Congratulations Younggil and Jisun! Married on Saturday March 23, 2013.

A year of Go in photos 2012-13

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Throughout the year, we see a lot of Go photos. And sometimes, when we see something funny, clever or interesting, we save a copy to share with you! Here are some of our favorite photos from the last year or so. We hope you’ll enjoy them…

Get free worldwide shipping on Go boards, stones and bowls

Get free worldwide shipping on Go boards, Go stones and Go bowls at Go Game Guru.

Have you ever wished you could get free worldwide shipping on Go equipment? We did. But since nobody was offering it, we decided to do it ourselves! Starting today, you can buy Go boards, Go stones and Go bowls from our Go Game Shop and get free shipping to anywhere that mail goes to. It doesn’t matter whether it gets there by truck, by plane or by camel…

Get Baduk TV English for just $20 (or try the new day pass)

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We’re really excited to announce that we now have enough customers to reduce the price of Baduk TV English to just $20/month (and we’ve already done so). Baduk TV is a 24/7 Go TV channel in Korea. Earlier this year we announced a partnership between Baduk TV and Go Game Guru to bring Baduk TV to Go players worldwide…

How to watch Baduk TV in English

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Baduk TV is a television station that broadcasts programs exclusively about Go. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Until very recently Baduk TV was never easily accessible to people outside of Korea… Starting now though, you can watch Baduk TV with English subtitles at Go Game Guru.

Commented Games by Lee Sedol: Now available in English – Worldwide

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Thanks to the excellent work of Daniela Trinks from Baduktopia, Volume One of Commented Games by Lee Sedol is available in English for the first time. The book contains over 300 pages of some of the most detailed and insightful Go commentary ever seen in English, as well as plenty of background material on Lee’s life and career, and his thoughts about many aspects of Go…

Go Game Guru turns 2 today

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3,105 comments, 376 game records, 255 articles and 3 Go cakes later, Go Game Guru is 2 years old today…

9 new Go books for beginners now available

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I’m happy to announce that we’ve recently expanded the range of Go books for beginners available in the Go Game Shop. You can now get all five volumes of Janice Kim’s award winning Learn to Play Go Series with fast local shipping in the USA, Europe and Australia, and affordable international shipping everywhere else…

Go Game Guru going offline at Toy and Game Expo – Sydney Australia

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No, the website’s not going offline, but we are, at Toy and Game Expo in Sydney. Younggil and David will be there on Sunday 10 and Monday 11 June, 2012, teaching Go to beginners and giving free lessons to whoever stops by…