Welcome to the simplest way to play Go (Baduk/Weiqi) online. Whether you're a curious beginner looking to learn the ropes or a seasoned player wanting a quick match, you can start playing right here in your browser—no accounts, no installs, just pure strategy.
Go is played on a grid of lines. The rules are simple, but the possibilities are endless. Let's walk through the basics with interactive examples.
Go is played on the intersections. Once placed, a stone does not move.
Try it: Click anywhere on the board to place a black stone.
Stones need air. The empty lines coming out from a stone are its Liberties.
(Diagram: A single stone with its 4 liberties marked)
Your Turn: Now you try. Click the 4 empty points around the black stone.
Stones that touch share their fate. They act as a single unit and share liberties.
Your Turn: Mark all 7 liberties of this triangle group.
Groups can stretch across the board. Larger groups act as walls.
Your Turn: Find the 8 liberties of this vertical chain.
Enemy stones block your liberties. When a group is surrounded, it has fewer ways to breathe.
Your Turn: Place a stone to escape!
The edge of the board cuts off your air. A stone in the corner is very weak.
Your Turn: How many liberties does this corner stone have?
When a stone has 0 liberties, it is removed.
Your Turn: Take the last liberty to capture the white stone!
You cannot play a move that leaves your stone with 0 liberties (unless it captures enemy stones).
(Diagram: Adding a stone here would have no breathing room.)
Your Turn: Try to play inside the eye (surrounded spot).
Reads like the first 'co' in 'coconut'
Your Turn: Capture white's stone.