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Go Editing Programs
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There are a number of software packages that you can use to review and edit game records, produce images and teach yourself go. This page is for the discussion of software for these purposes.

Most go software is multi-functional. Some programs are go clients, some are go editing programs, and some are both. These packages should be reviewed from different angles.

For example, my own situation, that I'm sure many share, is this: After I play my games (live or on-line), I then take the electronic game record (I use PilotGOne to record live ones on my hand-held computer) and review it, adding comments. Later, I need to take some of these games and print them out so I can go over them with my teacher (in person, over a real board).

Please add to the list of software, and help fill out the features of each. I've just put in a bit now, I'll add more later as well. --MtnViewMark


Go Editing/Recording Programs

A general purpose recorder/editor program. There is a fair amount of diagram and printing control.

TakeNGive: Inexpensive Windows shareware (and free if you use it less than once a week, I think), mostly intended to make diagrams for printing on paper via a word processor -- excellent for this purpose. I'm not sure how well it handles variations, and it doesn't seem to understand some SGF4 attribute tags.

This program comes as part of the Games of Go on Disk encyclopaedia. Designed principally for adding games to the GoGoD database, it therefore does not handle variations but contains a converter for lunar dates and various other features that ensure ease of input and accuracy of game data. An older version is available free on the MSO site, but the commercial CD version also combines with GoScorer? and John Fairbairn's Names Dictionary and tournament encyclopaedia.

IGV is an environment for publishing and viewing narrative-centric go content, including game commentaries and teaching materials. In that sense, it's not really a go editor like the other programs on this page. Authoring is done in HTML, augmented by simple markup which links sentences to move sequences in an SGF file. The end-user can "walk through" the text, with a dynamic go board showing the moves being discussed in the commentary. Viewing requires nothing more than a web browser, although for the time being support is limited to IE6. The site given above has a moderate amount of content, and IGV is also available under license for personal publishing of go materials.


More URLs via Gobase's [ext] SGF editors link collection.



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