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How to record a Kifu
  Difficulty: Beginner   Keywords: Equipment

Using a Kifu is a good way to record your game if you don't have a sgf-editor at hand. Kifus also have more charm than a computer file and the name sounds really cute.

The Kifu-paper has 19x19 circles (as with the kifu on the Kifu-pge) or 19x19 lines (like a common goban).

Black moves are entered with a black pen and white moves with a red (or use a white pen if you're really hard core). Don't try to draw go-stones, just enter the digit corresponding to the move. The first black stone is a black "1", the first white stone is a red "2" etc.

If a stone is placed on a point previously occupied by another stone (e.g. in a ko) you write the number of this new stone (with it's correct colour) underneath the diagram and the number of the older stone. If black 49 takes a ko on the point where black 37 previously was, you write "49 at 37" or even "49 takes ko at 37".

If you pass a move I guess you just write "Black 183 passes".

What I don't know is how you mark handicap stones.


unkx80: The SL diagrams will look like the kifu, except that you don't make the kifu as neat. As for handicap or setup stones, simply draw a black filled circle for black stones, and an empty circle for white stones.


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