Collections gather games from the Kifu Master archive around a story, so that we can follow the trail of an era, a journey or an encounter through the moves on the board.

Throughout history, Go has found a place not only in the world of its players but also in the world of courts, monasteries, merchants, soldiers and statesmen. Each collection is a door into one of these worlds: an article grounded in the sources, games chosen for their context, and the chance to study every game from start to finish on Kifu Master.

  • Emperor Minghuang and consort Yang Playing Weiqi

    Chinese Go Game Classics: Yi Mo

    Yi Mo is the name of a book printed four hundred years ago that brings together a hundred game records played among the ancient Go masters who competed in Jiangnan. A hundred games played between the fall of the Ming and the rise of the Qing: the records of Guo Bailing, Zhou Lanyu, Ye Xue and their contemporaries, together with their stories.

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