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Welcome to Samarkand, a company devoted to Go and other elegant games which link Eastern and Western thought. We named our company after the ancient silk-road city where for thousands of years the East has met the West. On this web site, you'll find both unique gifts and tools for expanding your own mind through Go, the ancient Asian game of strategy. Go is perhaps more than a game: it is also an art form that requires a creative spark. World chess champion Gary Kasparov may have fallen to Deep Blue, but Go remains a game where a human child can still handily defeat even the world's most sophisticated computers.

For newcomers to the game, we have a special selection of introductory products designed to get you off to an easy and enjoyable start. Please revisit this site, which will be filled with new items that I hope you will like and use as we do.