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As Tikz beginner, I'd learn skills for GO board drawing to do the following conveniently:

  1. add stones in arbitrary board positions (BOTH for grid points and unit squares) with text tag or other indicators of shape, color, etc.;
  2. label X,Y axis systematically and selectively;
  3. indicate arbitrary rectangles on the board by color or bounds;
  4. add comments outside of the board such that they have multiple line arrows pointing to arbitrary positions of the board, for example, all opposite boundary position pairs have a common property, several inner positions have a common property, etc.
cfr
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Charles Yu
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    See the answers to this question: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1947/is-there-a-way-to-tune-ball-shading-in-tikz – Hood Chatham Sep 30 '17 at 01:59
  • Perhaps not as this community commonly understood. But we can view GO board as a special case of grid. That is why I thought any thing relevant to grid may apply to GO board. (I tried to add certain tags but failed) – Charles Yu Sep 30 '17 at 02:46
  • Thanks for the example. But I still need more help with items 2,3,4. For X,Y axis labeling, suppose X is labelled from 1 to 19, and Y from A to S. How to make a systematical labeling? – Charles Yu Sep 30 '17 at 02:49
  • I've removed grid-typesetting as it is not relevant at all. Please read the tag wiki before adding tags if you aren't sure whether they're appropriate. I've added puzzle which is probably a better fit. There are packages for typesetting games on CTAN. Have you looked at those? What have you tried? logicpuzzle does grids. There are packages for chess and, I'm pretty sure, go. What have you tried? – cfr Sep 30 '17 at 02:58
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    https://ctan.org/topic/games There are at least 3 dedicated go support packages of some kind in that list and some of the others may also offer support, of course. – cfr Sep 30 '17 at 03:01
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    If the link helped with 1, then post the code you've got working and ask a specific question. The site works best when you ask for help with the particular step you're stuck on and don't just post a list of desiderata asking about various different things. Just because it is one project, doesn't mean you haven't asked four questions :-). – cfr Sep 30 '17 at 03:03

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The Metapost package metago appears to work out of the box:

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Perhaps this does what you want? Here is the example from the documentation, wrapped up in luamplib. 

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Pagella}
\usepackage{luamplib}
\mplibtextextlabel{enable}
\begin{document}
However, a service-oriented paradigm is further compounded when taking into account
the evolution of specifications over a given time period.  
\[
\begin{mplibcode}
input metago
beginfig(1);
set_board_size 6;
init_board;
put_b(C4);
put_w(D4);
put_b(D3);
put_w(C3);
put_b(E4);
put_w(B4);
put_b(D5);
display_board;
endfig;
\end{mplibcode}
\]
Is this what you need?

\end{document}

You need to compile my example using lualatex, or adapt it for gmp + pdflatex.

If your objective is to learn TikZ, then metago would at least provide you a benchmark for your efforts.

Thruston
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