📚 Go

The older board: empty corners, territory, and stones placed by hand — the game that took machines longest.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject go (game) in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Modern chess strategy	Edward Lasker	1950	6
	ヒカルの碁 1	Yumi Hotta	1999	6
	ヒカルの碁 2	Yumi Hotta	1999	6
	Game of Go	Arthur Smith	1999	5
	桃花泉奕譜	范西屛	1765	4
	Zain dansō	Toyoji Andō	1903	4
	Steppingstones to Go	Shigemi Kishikawa	1965	4
	38 basic joseki	Kiyoshi Kosugi	1973	4
	Beginning Go	Peter Shotwell	2008	4
	Go and go-moku	Edward Lasker	1960	3
	The theory and practice of Go	O. Korschelt	1966	3
	In the beginning	Ikuro Ishigure	1973	3
	Invitation to Go	John Fairbairn	1977	3
	Wei qi jin jie	Jingxun Li	1994	3
	Learn to Play Go	Janice Kim	1995	3
	Be A Master At Go	Charles Matthews	2010	3
	Winning Go	Richard Bozulich	2011	3
	Igo jōsekishū	Gengensai	1793	2
	Gokyō seimyō	Genbi Hayashi	1800	2
	Igo shogaku zensho	Kiyū Inoue	1887	2
	The game of go	Smith, Arthur	1908	2
	Ishidate tesuji kappō	Hakusen Kita	1924	2
	The game of wei-chi	Daniele Pecorini	1929	2
	Kagakuteki genri sōtei igo chō supīdo jōtatsuhō	Kyūkō Masui	1930	2
	Igo nyūmon	Kaoru Iwamoto	1949	2
	Shogaku igo kōza	Akira Nogami	1949	2
	Jōyōzumi no shikatsu	Kensaku Segoe	1952	2
	The world of Ki	John D. Goodell	1957	2
	Kakugen ni yoru igo kihon tesuji to sono ōyō	Fujio Suzuki	1966	2
	Go for beginners	Iwamoto Kaoru	1972	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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