Printable Go Board
A square goban with the star points marked, in the full 19 lines or the 13 and 9 line boards beginners learn on.
A square goban with the star points marked, in the full 19 lines or the 13 and 9 line boards beginners learn on.
Choose Go Board from the list. It opens with the usual size already set.
Pick the paper size, the grid and the orientation. Customize holds colours, margins and more.
Download the ready PDF, or print straight from the page at 100% scale.
Go is played on the intersections, not the squares, so a 19×19 board has 361 playing points. The full board is the game proper. 13×13 is a genuinely good game in a fraction of the time, and 9×9 is where almost everyone starts — small enough that a whole game is one idea, and the tactics are visible.
The star points, or hoshi, are the marked intersections. On a full board they sit on the fourth line from each edge and at the centre; on the smaller boards they move in to the third line. They mark the handicap placements and give the eye something to measure position against.
Print it square and it stays square, whatever size paper you give it.
Every sheet here is free, adjustable and prints at exact scale.
The size settled by tradition, and it has proved to be the point where the board is big enough for several fights to run at once without any one of them deciding the game. Earlier boards were 17×17.
On a 19×19 board, the fourth line in from each edge plus the centre — nine in all. On 13×13 and 9×9 they move to the third line, with five points marked.
Because I and J are easy to confuse in handwriting and in print. Go notation has left I out for a long time, so a 19-line board runs A to T.
