Give it a Go

Give it a Go is the best place to learn how to play Go, on your phone. PLAY A BOT, WITH OR WITHOUT A NETWORK Ten bots, from Socrates (~100 Elo) to Confucius (~2,000 Elo, about 1 dan), play on your phone itself: on the train, on a plane, anywhere. Choose 9×9, 13×13 or 19×19, or Capture Go, where the first to capture a set number of stones wins. Bot games are never rated. When you are back online, the games you finished go to your account. PLAY PEOPLE Automatch finds you a live game against a person. Challenge a friend, play a slow game over days, and get a notice when it is your move. Your Elo is your everyday rank, on a scale a chess player reads at a glance. LEARN FROM THE FIRST MOVE Oggo, the president of the Go club, teaches the rules a step at a time on small boards, and every step changes the board in front of you. Then play a tutor game: Oggo checks each of your moves and explains a bad one. PUZZLES Timed problems: life-and-death positions against the clock, with a board of the week's best scores. Puzzle collections: classic problem collections and beginner exercises, every answer checked against a strong Go program's reading. REVIEW YOUR GAMES The coach goes through a finished game on your phone and finds the moments that decided it, explained at your level, in points. TOURNAMENTS Join elimination and Swiss tournaments and earn a kyu or dan tournament rank. THE CLUB Playing is free. Club members get as many tutor games, game reviews and puzzle runs as they like, more correspondence games at once, and a gold Member tag. The club is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 7-day free trial; it renews until cancelled in your App Store settings. Everything on the board says what it means in shape and text as well as color, and the app follows your phone's dark mode and Reduce Motion settings. Terms of Use: https://giveitago.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://giveitago.io/privacy