Go Editing Programs

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There are a number of software packages that you can use to record games, 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). --MtnViewMark

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Go Editing/Recording Programs

  • Drago
    • Versatile freeware. Currently up to version 1.44.
    • New in version 1.42: export figures to PNG.
    • easy browsing through different variations with good visual feedback (for example in joseki sgf files)
  • GoCE (Pocket PC)
  • [ext] Go Game Assistant
    • Go Game Assistant is a comprehensive tool for Go games. It contains a total of 33,103 professional games and 4,372 josekies. It can help you play, study Go games, comment a game with reference inserts, play online, record, print, manage Go files, convert different formats, and it even includes coaching courses. In addition, it help you study Go game and manage your Go game records collections very expediently. By now ,it is the best editor which supports SGF files, and is the best program which reads Go game records. I am confident that this software provides Go fans with a friendly, convenient, and efficient environment to study the Go. Come on and try it right now! No matter you are a professional player or an amateur, Go Game Assistant is surely your best assistant to improve your skills.. Shareware.
  • [ext] GoGoD95
    • 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.
  • [ext] Go-Heaven
    • Still looks like it is in its initial phases. It crashes every once and a while, but I like the game tree.
  • [ext] GoWrite
    • 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.
    • LauriPaatero (GOWrite author): GOWrite 2 is FF4 compatible java version.
  • [ext] Hibiscus
    • A general purpose recorder/editor program. There is a fair amount of diagram and printing control.
  • [ext] Igowalker
    • An environment for publishing and viewing narrative-centric go content, including game commentaries and teaching materials.
  • MultiGo (Windows 98,ME,2000,XP etc.)
    • Full featured SGF editor/viewer with GNUGo playing capabilities.
    • Freeware, closed source.
  • qGo. Written in C++. Use Qt-widgets. Works under both Windows and Unixes. Open source.
  • [ext] RubyGo. Written in Ruby. Runs under Window and Unix. Open Source.
  • [ext] SGF Summarizer
    • Not a SGF editor, but a command-line tool to export SGF game header infos (like players' name and ranks, results, file names, etc.) to a text file. Open source, written in Python.
  • PocketGoban Japanese game recording/viewing program for some older handheld devices

Drawing Programs

Game analysis programs

See also


This is a copy of the living page "Go Editing Programs" at Sensei's Library.
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