Ultimate Go Server

    Keywords: Online Go

Index of sub-pages

Please help us get a clear picture how UGS should look like and contribute to the /Wishlist. This is the most important task right now - details about /Development can be fixed later... If you want to join the project, just add yourself to the /Team. You can also join the [ext] ultimatego-project at sourceforge by sending a mail to "benjamin.teuber at web.de"

General Idea

There are many good internet Go applications right now: SL, KGS, IGS, DGS, GoProblems.com, the GTL and so on. Each one has some very good part, e.g. KGS is right now the optimum for realtime-comments, IGS allows you to play with strong players as it's also spread in Japan.

But all of them are far from being perfect. We want to design a new international non-commercial all-in-one-server that combines all of these in an optimal way to create a perfect tool for play, chat, analysis and study.

Main Features

Cooperation with existing Go-sites

Benjamin: As UGS shall become a combination of the five great web go services SL, GTL, goproblems.com, KGS and gobase.org, it would be great to get their inventors into the project instead of trying to re-invent their things and trying to take over the market - that's not what we want. I don't know how e.g. Arno feels about UGS (maybe he didn't even hear about it yet), but we should try to convince him that we don't want to take away his archievements, but just try a further step after his seperate projects (SL, GTL, goproblems) succeeded that much. I'd really love to cooperate with him, as well as Jan van der Steen (gobase) and wms (KGS), of course, although I don't know how realistic this is. What do the others think about this? Is a cooperation with them:

Name Ideas

Benjamin: As a project name, UGS is fine as it's quite intuitive. But I don't want this to become the server name; it's just a boring continuation of the igs-nngs-kgs-dgs-row without any creativity - so almost the opposite of the server idea itself. So we need a funky name (I like Firefox as browser name e.g.) that should maybe still be connected to go. If you got any idea for that, please post it here:

geno: When I was looking into writing a GNU Go GUI, I considered naming it [ext] Shojo:

A kindly creature from Japanese mythology... They brew a medicinal white wine... If a good person drinks the sake, it will taste delicious. If a wicked person drinks it, the sake will taste like poison and kill him, unless he repents at once.

I thought this was a fascinating echo of the way Go reflects the personality, as well as the way Go punishes over-ambition and rewards those who seek balance and accomodation. It also ties into Japanese culture, which was how I learned about Go.

ilan: For some strange reason the name GWB came to mind.

if you liked firefox, how about inago (jp - grasshopper)? Reuven

ohh and what was the name of the go serv in hng? world go or something? Reuven

Benjamin: Hikaru and sai play with PandaEgg, the japanese IGS-Client


For more information, please see the sub-pages.


This is a copy of the living page "Ultimate Go Server" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.
[Welcome to Sensei's Library!]
StartingPoints
ReferenceSection
About