Using problems from goproblems.com with uliGo

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.

Unfortunately, uliGo does not display any of the labels in SGF files. Since many of the goproblems.com problems use labels, this can cause some confusion. The next uliGo version will display labels correctly, and will be able to read the goproblems.com format directly.

Finally, since sometimes the comments in these problems refer to "black" and "white", it may be a good idea to disable the color swap.

Posted by ug on September 1, 2006

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Ken wrote on December 31, 2006:
nice

Kenneth wrote on December 31, 2006:
Haven't tested the umm... converter but will soon.

Daniel wrote on December 31, 2006:
Wow... Gonna test this out!

Daniel wrote on December 31, 2006:
And... A Happy New Year!

Daniel wrote on December 31, 2006:
And umm... a late merry Christmas.

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