Equipment

GO Equipment in the DC Metro Area:

Beginner?s sets are available in some toy store chains, usually in malls.

Standard sets are available in the following store:

Ginza, 1721 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Washington DC
(202)332 7000

Chinese sets are available from:

Wen Reese
Yunnan Marketing Associates
(703) 585-7998
joannadong@yahoo.com
www.Yunnan-Arts.com

Cheap Korean sets are available at Grand Mart, in two locations:

          Annandale: 6255 Little River Turnpike, just off 395
          Centreville: 5900 Centreville Crest Lane

          If you mention the NOVA club, they may give you a discount...
          but this depends upon who is selling it to you

GO Equipment/Books on the Internet:

o Kiseido

o Samarkand

o Slate and Shell

o Yellow Mountain Imports

o Shodan Imports

o Yutopian

o Chess 'n' Games

Books:

GO: A Complete Introduction, Cho Chikun, Kiseido
Go for Beginners, Kaoru Iwamoto, Pantheon
Learn to Play GO, Janice Kim, Good Move Press
Tesuji and Life and Death, James Davies, Kiseido
And so many others...!

Please send additions to this list to allango@igc.org so all the new players in the area will be able to get started more easily! Thanks.