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SGF File
   

SGF is abbreviation for Smart Game Format, which has become probably the most widely used file format on the Internet Go scene today.

The file format is designed to store game records of board games for two players. It's a text only, tree based format. Therefore games stored in this format can easily be emailed, posted or processed with text-based tools. The main purposes of SGF are to store records of played games and to provide features for storing annotated and analyzed games (e.g. board markup, variations).

Most Go servers will be able to send you an SGF file of a game you played. SGF files are used by many Go editing programs and are even used on rec.games.go.

Of course, Sensei's Library also uses SGF files - all the diagrams on SL can be downloaded as SGF simply by clicking on them (see How Diagrams Work).

More information via Arno Hollosi's [ext] SGF user guide including lists on SGF's [ext] Go [ext] properties ([ext] by type).


There's also some discussion about SGF files on SL.


Do you know how to make tsumego on sgf?



This is a copy of the living page "SGF File" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2003 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.