The Go board, called the goban 碁盤 in Japanese, is the playing surface on which to place the stones.

Also see Irensei for a similar mix of line-building and capturing goals, on the goban.

Mr. Goban, a 62-year-old sales coordinator, is obviously undaunted by reversals.

Her brother, whom we call the Goban Saor, shows remarkable gifts of craftsmanship.

With a proud flourish, the Goban Saor whipped the covering aside.

Throwing off his harness, the Goban Saor caught me as I fell.

The Goban Saor propped me against the platform and rubbed life back into my limbs.

It may have been known as Goban Saer's Castle.

TriGo is a go variant that uses a triangular-grid goban, where each stone has up to six liberties.

Adol is convinced the remaining books are there, but Goban tries to dissuade him from going there.

Traditional Japanese goban usually follow the dimensions:

The Goban Saor's blue eyes met mine.

The Goban Saor came to my tent.

"You're outrunning the women," the Goban Saor told me.

Unable to reach his weapons, he is said to have picked up the goban and used it to fight off his enemies before eventually killing himself.

The Goban Saor dropped his eyes.

The Goban Saor rode into our camp as if trained to the horse, followed by a driver with a wagon covered in leather.

The Goban Saor smiled at my anxiety.

Terynon and the Goban Saor joined in.

The Goban Saor made several ingenious suggestions.

The Goban Saor answered.

The next day, Adol is consumed with guilt over Sarah's fate when Goban appears and tells him to buck up.

The figure the Goban Saor had long ago carved for me as a gift for Menua was not a trophy head.

Saint Gobain or Goban, a 7th-century Irish Benedictine monk.

I pulled my thoughts away from the Two-Faced One and bent over to study the Goban Saor's latest design.