Go game record

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A Go game record is an archival record for a game of Go.

Kifu (棋譜) is the Japanese term for abstract strategy game record. In China, people named this kind of record qipu (simplified Chinese: 棋谱; traditional Chinese: 棋譜; pinyin: qípǔ). In Korea, people named this kind of record Gibo (Chinese: 棋譜).

Go records traditionally recorded games on a grid diagram representing the playing board, marking the plays on the stones by numbers. Stones placed before play begins are unnumbered.