European Go Database
The EUROPEAN GO DATABASE is out!
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More than 3000 tournaments, more than 16000 players, some 280.OOO results! All the statistics you ever wanted and never dared to ask for!
Welcome to the European Go Database (EGD for short)!
A huge database containing all the results and every player from all the European tournaments, starting from January 1st, 1996 (the '95-'96 London Open)!
Updated monthly! (Soon we will add May and June results)
EGD has been created and is maintained by AGI (Association for Go in Italy].
It is based on the archives of Ales Cieply? who is kindly collaborating with us.
- You don't remember who your opponents were in that beautiful tournament?
- You want to see the wall list of the 2000 Amsterdam tournament, or of the 1997 Christmas tournament in Becov?
- Do you want to see how your GoR is progressing?
- Do you want to know how how many times you've won against your fiercest rival?
- Do you want to upload the sgf of your tournament games, or the picture of you slashing the dragon of your 5D opponent?
Go to the EGD and find many more features and statistics.
Enjoy, it's free!
How it works and what you can get
I won't go into details here, you can go to the EGD and discover by yourself...
Please note: The EGD interface, although 98.7% OK, is still in its beta test form and we are still working hard on it. So you could notice things changing day by day... ;-)
In the main menu you have three options:
- Find Player
- Find Tournament
- Statistics
You can search players or tournaments by name, Country, Club and other parameters. You get tables which are sortable, with a tremendous amount of information.
I list below some of the data you can get.
Player Card
- Name
- Country
- Club
- Rank
- EGF Placement
- GoR (including a graph of it vs. all your tournaments)
- Proposed Rank
- Total tournaments
- Last appearance
- A graph of your results of the latest 15 tournaments
- A table (sortable) with all your tournaments
- A table (sortable) with all your games
- A table (sortable) with all your opponents
- Biography (if available)
If you send us your picture or the sgf of your games we can upload them in your card...
Tournament Card
- Tournament code
- Wall-list
- Reliability
- Description
- Category
- Date
- City
- Country
- Tournament class
- Rounds
- Players
- For each player, her/his opponents, results, possible sgf, whatever.
Statistics
Statistics say it all (a lot of graphs, tables and other complicated things), and we are working on implementing new ones (see below Future developments).
This section could be considered the core of the whole project, its raison d'être. Without it we could hardly convince you that EGD is really important.
Just as an example, you can find for each Country a summary that contains:
- Number of players
- Average rank
- Average GoR
- Number of tournaments
Clicking on a Country, you obtain a graph and a table showing the number of players per class of GoR, plus the number of tournaments organised per year and the averaged number of participants.
Not only that, for each club of that Country you have a summary similar to the one described above.
Clicking on a club, again you obtain a graph and a table showing the number of players per class of GoR, plus, hear hear, you can view all the results of that club vs. other clubs of the same Country or vs. other Countries!
Can you want more??!? Well, if you can, tell us, we will see what we can do... ;-)
Help us make it better
I am sure I am forgetting some features, but, as I said, just go there, and have fun! And please, do not hesitate to send us information, pictures, sgf, corrections, additions and suggestions.
This is THE European Go Database, this is YOUR database!
Reliability
The EGD is based on wall-lists sent to Ales Cieply? by tournament directors.
Any error in the wall-lists goes directly into the EGD, but we trust tournament's directors to double-check their data before submitting them...
Moreover, as you probably know, these wall-lists are text files which are not totally standardised.
The engine devised by Paolo Scattini (see below Kudos) takes care of this, but there are a very few instances where it was impossible to straighten the data. So a very small number of flaws are still there.
If you detect one please let us know!: send e-mails either to Ales Cieply? or to us (me, Aldo Podavini or Paolo Scattini - see below Kudos)
In general we can say that the EGD is 99.10 % reliable.
Future developments
We're currently tackling the following tasks:
- Allow validation and upload of tournaments data
- Improve the player’s card management, allowing the editing of its contents either on the web or by mass importing
- Improve statistical reports
- You name it
Please take this last item literally: if you desire a particular statistic, or information, to appear in the EGD just e-mail us, or add it at the end of this page, and we'll try to implement it.
In fact, we could consider creating a page for the EGDWishList?... ;-)
Kudos
Big Kudos to Aldo Podavini (secretary AT agi DOT go DOT it), who had the idea, worked at the initial definition of data and who keeps the supervision of the whole project.
HUGE Kudos to Paolo Scattini (pscattini AT agi DOT go DOT it), AGI's WebGrandMaster?, who created the engine that fishes raw data from a bunch of non-standardised text files called wall-lists, makes them edible and feeds them to the database.
Not only that, he wholly designed both back-end and front-end interfaces, which are beautiful, practical and easy to use!
Without Paolo all this would still be a dream...
Super Kudos to Ronald van Ueffelen, who behind the scenes is working hard on the statistics, graphs and whataver, to give thick substance to the EGD.
Much grateful Kudos to Ales Cieply? for maintaining the EGF tournament database since 1996, for making data available and for collaborating with great kindness all the way through.
I had no role whatsoever, but the nasty one of saying every other day: "Bravo, you're doing well! Er... Are we finished yet?"
Technology
EGD rely on a technology Apache + MySQL + PHP; at the moment it is hosted on the servers of Aruba, on both Windows and Linux platforms.
In the future, we'll evaluate whether mirroring EGD (if anybody has disposal of reliable servers, and wants to mirror EGD, please let us know).
Our idea is to make the project Free Software, so when we are happy with the stability of EGD (i.e.: when we promote it from beta release to stable release) we’ll make the source code publicly available.
Updates
Moved to European Go Database updates