pgf-go — for drawing go games

Release 0.2026.10.23 2026/10/23

Description

pgf-go draws and comments on Go games with PGF/TikZ: boards, stones, moves, marks, arrows and territory. With LuaLaTeX it also reads SGF files (a game on a board, diagrams as in books, animations and problems), removes captured stones and finds the territory.

License

The code may be distributed and/or modified under the terms of the LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3c or later. The manuals may be distributed and/or modified under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or the GNU Free Documentation License.

Requirements

LuaLaTeX is recommended (the compute kernel in Lua); with pdfLaTeX the package works, but it cannot read SGF files, remove captured stones or find the territory by itself. It loads TikZ and xparse; \sgfanimation needs animate.

Installation

pgf-go comes with TeX Live and MiKTeX. Otherwise, copy the files of the folder latex/ to the folder of your document or to your TeX tree.

Usage

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgf-go}

\begin{document}
\begin{goban}
	\stones[b]{C3}
	\stones[w]{E5}
\end{goban}
\end{document}

Documentation

The manuals pgf-go-es.pdf (Spanish) and pgf-go-en.pdf (English), and the examples in doc/examples.

Changes

See CHANGELOG.md.

Author

Jonatán Perren, jonatan (dot) perren (at) gmail (dot) com