A go database program
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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Posted by ug on September 3, 2006
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Apologies are due to Aloril and to Marcel Grünauer, both of whom have sent me patches for Kombilo a long time ago. Whereas I had promised to at least put them on the Kombilo website I had not got around to actually doing so... Now they are available, at long last.
Posted by ug on September 1, 2006
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The web site www.goproblems.com also offers their problem collection for download. Thus in principle it is possible to use these problems with uliGo. There are a few problems with this, though:
The format to mark right and wrong answers, respectively, is different. I wrote a Python script which translates the goproblems.com format to the uliGo format: goproblems2uligo.tar.gz,
goproblems2uligo.zip. I tested this script only briefly - if you have any problems, please report them via email.
Juhapekka Tolvanen has written a shell script
(Unix only) which takes the archive from goproblems.com and divides according to problem category
and difficulty.
Posted by ug on September 1, 2006
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