Our goal is to deliver high quality traditional Chinese go equipment. Weiqistore.com is based in the Netherlands, Europe.
Go boards
Go (called wei qi in Chinese) is a very popular board game in south east Asia (Korea, Japan and China).
Go is played on a board with a 19x19 grid. Boards differ in thickness and materials. Those that can be found
on this website are of top quality, and are all manufactured by famous Yunnan Wei Qi factories.
Stones used by Chinese players are slightly different from those used
by Japanese and Korean players. While the latter are convex on both
sides, one side of the former is flat. One of the advantages of this is
that, in the analyses of various board positions, stones that are used
for analysing can be placed up side down. After the analysis, they can easily be
removed. Another reason why Chinese players use such stones may lie in
that, when analyzing game positions, they are allowed to tentatively
place stones on the board with the flat side facing up. As long as
the flat side remains facing up, the stone can be retrieved. To make
their moves final, they then flip the stones so that the flat side
sits on the board, and the stones no longer wobble, signifying their
decision is final (warning: don't try this try this during tournament games:).
