Where to Play Go/Baduk/Weiqi

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Go servers and matchmaking

• OGS — best place to play online.
• Fox Weiqi — partly translated Windows client; Android app is in Chinese.
• MiniFox — third-party clients for macOS, Windows, and Linux for Fox.
• WeiqiHub — third-party clients for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, and Android for Fox and Tygem.
• Pandanet/IGS — Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android; the original online Go server.
• Tygem — TygemBaduk.
• YikeWQ — English and Chinese.
• GoQuest — Android and iOS.
• The World GO — Android.
• Baduk Pop — web, Android, and iOS.
• Netmarble Baduk.
• ExploreBaduk — an up-and-coming European Go server.
• Libaduk — a Lichess-like Go server.
• Tactile Go — a Go server designed for tactile play.
• Toyo Igo — Tygem on the web.
• SWHub — Simple online server for regular and variant Go.

Play against bots and casual games

• Squishy Go — a beginner-friendly place to play bots.
• Cosumi — play bots from 7×7 to 19×19, roughly 30 kyu to 3 dan.
• CMKGo.
• Weiqi Dungeon.
• Go Tetris.
• Josekle — a daily joseki-guessing game.
• Omoyo — play against AI personalities with real-time KataGo analysis.
• UchiGo — online play with AI analysis, puzzles, and lessons.
• Weiqi Gray — a playable 3D Go board.

Variants and experimental servers

• Torigo — borderless Go.
• QuantumGo.
• Go Variant Server — play rule and board variations.
• Variant Baduk Club.
• Wall Go and another Wall Go.
• Diplomatic Go.
• Toroidal Go.
• ContinuGo — Go without the usual grid of intersections.
• SWHub — also supports Go variants.
• Voronoi Go
• Blue Move.

Find in-person games

• Baduk.Club map — find nearby players and places to play.

Additional servers and boards

• Goban Sandbox — 3D Go.
• Fluid Weiqi.

Also useful for playing

• GoLab — an online board with shared controls; also listed under Tools.
• Companion Baduk — a paid beginner-oriented Go game; also listed under Paid resources.