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A question on tex.stackexchange got me to play around with TikZ a little bit, which resulted in the following picture:

On the way, I produced some commands for quickly drawing similar pictures (note that there is already a LaTeX package for drawing black-and-white diagrams):

\usepackage{tikz,amsfonts}
\usetikzlibrary{calc,shadows}

% The basic environment that draws the board
\newenvironment{partialgoboard}[2]{%
 \begin{tikzpicture}[
 scale=0.5,
 stone/.style={drop shadow={shadow xshift=0.03, shadow yshift=-0.05}},
 black-stone/.style={black!80},
 black-highlight/.style={outer color=black!80, inner color=black!30},
 black-number/.style={white},
 white-stone/.style={white!70!black},
 white-highlight/.style={outer color=white!70!black, inner color=white},
 white-number/.style={black},
 gomark/.style={black,fill=brown!80}]
 \clip (#1) rectangle (#2);
 \fill[brown!80] (0,0) rectangle (20,20);
 \draw[black] (1,1) grid (19,19);
 \draw[thick,black] (1,1) rectangle (19,19);
 \fill (4,4) circle (0.1);
 \fill (4,10) circle (0.1);
 \fill (4,16) circle (0.1);
 \fill (10,4) circle (0.1);
 \fill (10,10) circle (0.1);
 \fill (10,16) circle (0.1);
 \fill (16,4) circle (0.1);
 \fill (16,10) circle (0.1);
 \fill (16,16) circle (0.1);
 }{%
 \end{tikzpicture}
 }

% A shortcut for drawing a full board
\newenvironment{goboard}{\begin{partialgoboard}{0,0}{20,20}}{\end{partialgoboard}}

% A stone
\newcommand\gostone[4][]{%
 \begin{scope}
 \fill[stone,#2-stone] (#3,#4) circle (0.45);
 \clip (#3,#4) circle (0.45);
 \shade[#2-highlight] (-0.15+#3,0.5+#4) circle (0.7);
 \end{scope}
 \node[#2-number] at (#3,#4) {\sffamily\bfseries{#1}};
}

% Some markers
\newcommand\gotrig{\(\mathbf\triangle\)}
\newcommand\gobox{\(\mathbf\Box\)}
\newcommand\godia{\(\mathbf\Diamond\)}

% Marking a position on the board
\newcommand\gomark[3]{%
 \node[gomark] at (#2,#3) {\sffamily\bfseries{#1}};
}

The above example is then produced with:

\begin{partialgoboard}{0,0}{10.5,10.5}
 \gostone{white}{4}{9}
 \gostone{white}{3}{4}
 \gostone[\gotrig]{white}{5}{3}
 \gostone{white}{10}{4}
 \gostone[1]{white}{2}{6}
 \gostone[3]{white}{3}{3}
 \gostone[5]{white}{4}{5}
 \gostone[7]{white}{2}{3}
 \gostone{black}{2}{4}
 \gostone{black}{3}{5}
 \gostone[2]{black}{4}{4}
 \gostone[4]{black}{4}{3}
 \gostone[6]{black}{3}{2}
 \gostone[8]{black}{5}{4}
 \gomark{A}{5}{5}
 \gomark{B}{2}{2}
\end{partialgoboard}

Ich bin durch Ulysses durch. Und das größtenteils auf Englisch!