A go database program
| I made some slides which I want to use to introduce go in a short course I will give in an Esperanto meeting in the summer. The course will probably be just about an hour long, so I will really only be able to cover very basic stuff. Still, I think it will be good to use a projector with these slides (and probably, at times, to switch to an SGF editor and "play" a few stones), and to distribute handouts of this so that people can make notes. The goal should be that at the end of this hour (and maybe even during the coures), people can start playing. | Mi verkis tre koncizan enkondukon al go-ludo kiun mi intencas uzi kiel projekciajxojn en mallonga kurso kiun mi okazigos en somera renkontigxo. La kurso antauxvideble dauxros nur unu horon, do mi vere povos paroli nur pri la plej bazaj aspektoj. Tamen mi esperas ke estos helpo montri pere de projekciilo cxi tiujn notojn, kaj eble foje sxangxi al SGF-prilabora programo por povi "meti" kelkajn sxtonojn sur la tabulon, kaj ankaux distribui printitajn kopiojn, por ke homoj povu mem aldoni notojn kaj poste rerigardi ilin. La celo estos ke post tiu horo (aux eble ecx dum gxi), la partoprenantoj povos ekludi. |
Posted by ug on June 16, 2007
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 | About two weeks ago, Gilles Arcas published the new version of Drago, an SGF editor with lots of features (exercise go problems, print diagrams ...). The new version includes the libkombilo library and can do pattern searches and searches for game information (players, etc.). In my opinion, Gilles succeeded in creating a very intuitive user interface for the pattern search. Drago is freeware for Windows. |
Posted by ug on June 16, 2007
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Posted by ug on June 15, 2007
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Kombilo includes a list of references to commentaries in the English go literature (most notably to commented games in Go World). I have now updated this list to include all Go World issues up to volume 109. Altogether there are now more than 1500 references to game commentaries.
Posted by ug on March 6, 2007
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Currently I am working on a hashing algorithm for center patterns for libkombilo. See also this related discussion on Sensei's about this topic. Here I just want to share some observations (there are similar observations on the Sensei's page, but based on smaller database). The numbers given below are based on a database of around 50.000 high-dan games from KGS.
Posted by ug on February 27, 2007
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Posted by ug on October 22, 2006
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With the consent of Bill Shubert, I have updated the archives of games of high-rank players, played on KGS. They now comprise the games played from the end of 2000 (when KGS started) to September 2006.
Currently about 47,000 games are available for download.
What I like most about this is that I now have a script which will do an automatic monthly update from now on.
Posted by ug on October 12, 2006
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Posted by ug on October 6, 2006
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I just imported the first version of the new Kombilo pattern search engine into the source code repository. There are also some notes what this could be used for right now (and what does not yet work). All of this will eventually be integrated into a new Kombilo version, but for now is directed at programmers who want to use the pattern search engine in their own scripts or programs.
Posted by ug on September 13, 2006
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Here is another unfinished project which nevertheless might be useful for somebody. Using Python and the Reportlab toolkit, the script goboard.py produces a pdf file showing a given position on the go board. The position has to be given in wiki format (as used by Sensei's Library), and as in SL diagrams, stones can be labelled with 1-10, and other labels can be put at empty points.
One thing you can do with a pdf is to produce an image file from it - the example here was produced in this way, and so were the pictures of go problems used to prevent comments from spam bots.
Posted by ug on September 10, 2006
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Like a number of other people I had a go at rendering a go board with POVRay. The picture shown here was produced in this way.
Posted by ug on September 7, 2006
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I redesigned the site, and updated a number of things on the way. Future updates will be more frequent and regular than during the previous months, I hope.
Posted by ug on September 7, 2006
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Here is another small script which facilitates using problems from goproblems.com with uliGo or similar programs. It sorts SGF files into subdirectories according to the DI[] tag which indicates the difficulty of the problem in the file. Thanks to Oliver Richman for writing and sending the script. (What you find below is a slightly modified version.)
Posted by ug on September 7, 2006
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uliGo is a program to practice solving go problems. As far as I know it was the first program "on the market" with this specific aim, and with the feature of randomly rotating/mirroring the problem (and possibly switching the colors), to improve the training effect.
While it is still quite popular, judging from the access statistics of the uliGo pages, it has not been updated for a while, and I must admit that it does not have a very high priority for me right now (this is one of the reasons I have not moved the bug tracker to the new site). If there is somebody out there willing to become the new maintainer of uliGo, I would be glad to pass on this project.
For now, let me point you to two of the alternatives that have come up in the meantime: Drago (Windows only), and gogrinder (Java, hence cross platform). Of course, there also is goproblems.com where you can do go problems online.
Posted by ug on September 5, 2006
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I have been working intensely on the next Kombilo version, and although it is not yet done, I think I am pretty close to presenting something useful. The first priority now is to get the new pattern search engine finished. It will have the form of a "library", accessible from Python scripts, and later also from other programming languages.
It will take me some more time to adapt the graphical user interface and to create a Windows installer for the new version, but eventually this will of course come as well.
Posted by ug on September 4, 2006
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