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GoGoD CD
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The [ext] Games of Go on Disk collection was put together by T. Mark Hall and John Fairbairn. Originally it was sold as collections of games on floppy disk. In 2001 they collected them all on a single CD for the first time. This is a commercial collection (GBP 35 or USD 55). I bought a copy over New Years (2002 :-) and have been fascinated. I definitely recommend it for anyone serious about studying professional games.

As interesting as the CD is however, it took a quantum leap forward when I downloaded Kombilo to use with it. This combination may well change the way amateurs study fuseki.

--DaveSigaty

The current version, issued end November 2002, has over 20,300 pro games with full data. The CD includes so many other goodies, such as my monster Names Dictionary, that we are now referring to it as the GoGoD Encyclopaedia. It also includes Kombilo, by kind permission of Ulrich Goertz. We provide updates several times a year. The latest update has a new Go Seigen game.(John Fairbairn)

Latest version is dated Summer 2003 and has 25,000 games, also with vastly expanded encyclopaedia side. JF

AshleyF: Just received the November 2003 version. It's up to 26,200 games and has a beta version of a new program, PBase.exe, to present classical go problems. The small but growing collection of problems can be used with other problem viewers as well such as uliGo and Go Album.

mgoetze: So, I'm wondering whether I should buy this CD and I have some questions... does it have any commented Kitani games which are not against Go Seigen? Ideally, from before 1935 or so? What percentage approximately is commented? Also, how many of those 22,150+ games are also available on GoBase? Thanks in advance to any answerers...

Floris: I also have a question. I bought GoGoD at Het Paard in the Netherlands. They charged 75 Euro instead of the 55 mentioned on the GoGoD site, besides that, they also gave me standard CD-R with the TDK label still present. I hope this is the actual distribution and not a copy, I don't like paying 20 euro's more for an illegal copy. Also I think that *if* GoGoD really is a copied CD, that u guys should at least take the effort to give the CD a cover and back. These are some pre-use frustrations, the contents of the CD is all fine and so far GoGoD has been a tool worthwhile.

John F. Het Paard is our official distributor in Europe and operates from a master disk we supply. So they are not making illegal copies, though I'm disappointed to hear that they may not be making much of an effort at presentation (the UK supplied copies are now properly printed CDs). It seems that the European version suffers two other handicaps. One is that it is somewhat out of date (I think January 2003 and there have been big additions in two updates since then). The other, as Floris notes, is price. This is because het Paard have to add European taxes and other costs and we don't. It has been a bit similar in North America where Yutopian are the official distributors. I believe, however, that they have always produced their own packaging, and from now on (Mark Hall having talked to Sid Yuan in Houston) they will provide timely updates. The ideal, I suppose, is to come to us direct, though we have always been chary of being inundated with administrative work - remember this is hobby-time stuff for us. If anyone already has an out-of-date or expensive version from a distributor and wants to subscribe direct, we will happily offer a discount on a new subscription. Contact Mark Hall for that. (Contact information available at [ext] Go Games on Disk collection)

Using GoGoD on a Macintosh

Richard Hunter: The software such as Josekibase does not work of course, but all the games in the database are simple sgf text files, so you can view these in your favourite go program. The file names hard to identify but there is a text file listing all the games. This enables you to find the game you want. The game files are in separate folders for years or decades. On Mac OS9, Smart Go Board can open a folder and present all the games as a collection. I allocated a large amount of memory, but otherwise no problem. Then you can see the players' names etc. Goban on OSX can open a collection, but seems unable to create one!



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