Defining queries

Search goals

Although we certainly would not want to limit you to any of the suggestions below, the areas in which GoBase might proof particularly useful are:

Study joseki

Use a joseki pattern as search key. GoBase will return all encountered variations emerging from this joseki. Variation branches are ordered by frequency, thus showing you the main line of play first. It will also provide you with the games in which each variation of this joseki was applied. This enables you to study in which circumstances professionals apply specific lines of the joseki.
GoBase Search Service provides you with an up to date electronic joseki dictionary with professional games attached to each and every move.

Study fuseki

Use a full (or half) board region as search key. All points which apply to joseki study also apply to fuseki study. So again GoBase provides you with an up to date electronic fuseki dictionary with professional games attached to each and every move.
Studying fuseki with GoBase will give you feeling for the direction of play applied by professionals in the opening stages of the game.
Was your game unique at move 10?

Study chuban

Although the list below in particular is subject to the user's own needs and imagination, use GoBase for example to investigate:

Positions with extensions to discover the weak points in these shapes.
Positions with invasions to discover the fighting patterns evolving from these invasions.
yosumi moves to study when to play them and how to follow them up.

Study games

Enter the game you are analysing (your own game for example) on the GoBase search board. The moments you have questions about a move select a suitable region and hit the search button.

Study instruction books

While studying Go instruction material use GoBase to get more information on the discussed subjects. While books are limited by practical factors (like the size of the book), GoBase enables you to study the subject as profoundly as you like with professional game examples as a bonus.