Using problems from goproblems.com with uliGo, update

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.)

disort.sh

Posted by ug on September 7, 2006

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uliGo status

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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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.

Posted by ug on September 1, 2006

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30 problems from Jan van der Steen's site

Here are 30 more problems that you can use with uliGo; just copy the file to the sgf subdirectory. These problems have been made available by Jan van der Steen (here). They come from an advertisement in the Kido magazine, and to the best of my knowledge are freely distributable. They were put into SGF format by Dan Stromberg. Download: kido.sgf (3KB).

Posted by ug on September 1, 2006

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Cho's encyclopedia of life and death

If you own Cho's Encyclopedia of Life and Death on disk, you can use the cho2sgf.py program to translate it into SGF format.

Posted by ug on September 1, 2006

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