Famous Go Games

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You can download a collection of about 30 most famous games (in sgf, some of them with commentary) with description why they are famous from [ext] http://www.ta5uki.tk, in section "Famous games". --tasuki

[10] SGFs taken from Vit Brunner's page [ext] http://www.ta5uki.tk/.

John F. I invite Mr Brunner to explain why he has seemingly posted someone else's work without permission and without credit. Taking the game 1934.sgf on his site as an example, this is a precise copy of all the notes from my file GO192X.GO except for one. Strangely the one omitted says, "Commentaries by Honinbo Shusai, Kitani Minoru and Go Seigen, adapted by John Fairbairn." I am not averse to giving limited permissions, but I do expect to be asked first and I do expect credit. I don't allow posting to SL because of the rule that says that anything posted there then becomes copyright-free, and I don't want to give permissions for any Kamakura games in view of a promised book. This file and others of similar type first appeared on the GoGoD floppy of Go Seigen's games, many commented. Some of the work was also done for Go World.

unkx80: Since Mr Fairbairn does not want his notes posted here, I have turned the pages Go Seigen - Iwamoto Kaoru, 1948 and Go Seigen - Takagawa Kaku, 1959 into aliases.

tderz: John, I am sorry that I posted this SGF and also breached copyright by doing that. I was not aware of where it came from at that moment and did not check at all whether there was a copyright notice. I myself obtained the SGFs via het Paard around 1995 I guess (when it was still distributed on disks) and later most probably again 2003 with GoGod on CD.

  • While writing this I realize that I have copied it from his (Vit Brunner's) site.

On my computer, many SGFs are once under "games with comments" , then again under "famous games" , then perhaps doubled again under the respective names. It is difficult to remember where it came from. Again I offer my apologies for having contributed to an infringement of copyright.

John F. Although I didn't look carefully, I didn't see anything on SL to prompt me into asking for removals here. The games themselves are not copyright anyway, only the commentaries. and I can live with a reasonable reference to the texts. I did, however, see enough here that seemed familiar enough to prompt me to look at Vit Brunner's site, and, pending an explanation from him, I found what seemed a rather troubling state of affairs.

In case anyone who has bought GoGoD looks for these commentaries on the CD, they are not there yet - for a good reason.

If it's GoGoD related business we'd be happy to hear from anyone at the contact address on our website: www.gogod.demon.co.uk - I think :)


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