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Kombilo
   

Kombilo is a Go database program by Ulrich Goertz.

Its main purpose is to search for games in which a given pattern or position occurs. You can also search for other criteria (like time period, players, events).



Kombilo does not come with game records, but you can import games in SGF format. (The GoGod database by John Fairbairn and T Mark Hall is an excellent choice.)


Kombilo is a very fast search engine for SGF files. It is freeware written in Python.

Search results are:

  • a listing of the 'hits' if any, and
  • in the case of a full-board search, a listing of the next moves and the number of occurrences for each alternative.

You can click on any game in the list and view the basic game info or double click and a viewer will pop up to quickly review the game.

If you use Kombilo with the GoGoD CD, the listing is an instant history of the variation you are studying. This is because the game names in the CD collection are composed of the dates on which the games were played. You can see at a glance when the variation was popular and whether it is still used.


Discussion

BillSpight: Can you use Kombilo to search for shapes, regardless of board coordinates? Except for corners and edges, of course. Does it search over all 16 symmetries? (That's four directions, left hand vs. right hand, and Black vs. White.) E.g., can you look for

[Diagram]
Diag.: Eye-stealing tesuji

anywhere in the center of the board,


and also find, say,


[Diagram]
Diag.: Symmetrical position




Jan de Wit: The program takes both color and position symmetries into account when searching, and you can selectively disable each of them.

UliGo, the other program by Ulrich Goertz, teaches problems (mainly life and death), also rotating and inverting them.

Ulrich Goertz: The program does take symmetries, color swap and translations into account. You can optionally disable color swap and translations.


History:



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