Go Client
A Go client provides a graphical interface to Go servers or/and Go programs .
Most Go clients are Go Editing Programs, but few are Go playing programs, too.
IGS/NNGS clients
Here are some client softwares in alphabetical order. Some of them are more than just IGS/NNGS-client:
Open source
- ccGo?
http://ccdw.org/~cjj/prog/ccgo/
- Written in C++. Use Gtk2-widgets. For Linux and other Unixes. Open source.
- CGoban1
- Uses X Window System. Open source. (CGoban2/3 are KGS clients, see below)
- Jago
- Java client for playing locally or over Internet servers (IGS/NNGS), with many international versions available. Written in Java, open source. (
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/
http://jagoclient.sourceforge.net/)
- PandaPy
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http://code.google.com/p/pandapy/ is an open-source IGS client for Symbian mobile phones written in Python for S60.
- qGo
- Written in C++. Use Qt-widgets. Member of IGSCP. Works under both Windows and Unixes. Open source. (successor qGo2 is in developement; update: now available at least in debian SID, replaces "old" qgo)
- RubyGo
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http://rubygo.rubyforge.org/ Client written in Ruby. Open source. Member of IGSCP. Works under both Windows and Unixes.
- TanGo
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tangoclient/files/
- Client for Windows. Written in Visual Basic. Open source. Also contains an SGF viewer, GNU Go player and NNGS Server. But the author had lost source code ,stop developing now. Who can find it again? or in you computer have it?
- ViZiGO
- Client for playing on Go servers (IGS/NNGS).
- Xgospel?
http://gailly.net/xgospel/index.html
- X-Window client for Go servers (IGS/NNGS), no GNU Go support (open source)
Freeware/commercial/other
- CompoGo
- can connect to IGS and Dragon Go Server (Freeware)
- ElyGo
- An IGS client for Android (commercial)
- Go Knot
- Play locally against Gnu Go, IGS client (Windows, Shareware)
- Igc2000?
- Another IGS/NNGS client. It doesn't seem, that vilab.com still works on go software. The program may still be found in one or the other software archive. The old link www.vilab.com/igc/home.html is '404 - page not found'.
- Mobile Go
- PalmOS client (commercial, free basic edition)
- PANDA-gGo
- One of the official clients of IGS, member of IGSCP; formerly known as "gGo" and before that "qGo for Java"; written in Java. (early open source version was withdrawn by the author)
- PANDA-glGo
- One of the official clients of IGS; formerly know as glGo; a older open source version is still on sourceforge project ggo.
- SmartGo
- Full-featured Go program that's also an IGS and GTP client. For Windows. (commercial)
- Tetsuki editor
- The official free IGS client for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad).
Goigo : An IGS client for Android based phones
Clients for other servers (KGS etc.)
- CGoban3
- An SGF editor and client for the KGS Go Server, see also obsolete version CGoban2.
- qGo2
- Multiserver client able to play go on IGS, CyberORO, Tygem, eWeiqi etc. Hasn't been updated since 2010. It is available in some linux repositories, including at least Debian and Ubuntu. You can compile it from source with qt4 for Windows and *nix.
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Dragon Go Client
- An iPhone/iPod Touch client to the Dragon Go Server.
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Go Siege
- A multiplayer online go variant
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Shades of Go
- Client for GTP engines, supports Jago
http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/'s peer-to-peer partner protocol. For Windows and the .Net framework.
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Tiny Go
- Client for Java on mobile phones (local play).
Interfaces to Go playing programs
- EidoGo
- Web-based front-end to GNU Go
- Sente Goban
http://gobanapp.com/
- A beautiful OS X editor and client that includes GnuGo. (Freeware; a (simpler) GPL version, called FreeGo is also available)
- GoGui
- In Java. Has many features useful to Go program developers.
- JiGo
http://www.whitemagicsoftware.com/software/java/jigo Java Interface for Go. A professional Go Programming API and Toolkit.
- Peepo?
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http://www.peepo.com: Web-based front-end to Pachi
- Quarry
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http://gitorious.org/quarry/pages/Home : A client for GTP engines (e.g. GNU Go) + SGF viewer and editor. Free software, for UNIX-like systems.
- SDL Go?
http://sdlgo.sourceforge.net/
- Client that communicates with GNU Go through its ascii interface, supports GTP too
- Universal 3D Chess
- SGF Editor in 2D/3D with GTP support. (Windows)
Discussion
- Is there a Go client which displays the remaining time SGF's tags "BL" and "WL"?
Yes, Drago. When a SGF file is read with BL and WL properties, it opens a panel to display the timing properties.
CGoban (KGS) editor does it too. As does Quarry
- Which Go client or SGF editor imports ascii formatted positions via copy and paste? Or which software tool converts it into SGF? Example:
a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 17 . O O O . . . . O . . X X X . . X . . 17 16 . X O X O . O . . , O O X O . X . O . 16 15 . X X X . . . . . . . . X O . . . . . 15 14 . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . 14 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . . . 13 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 10 . . X , . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . 10 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8 . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . O(X). 8 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . X X . . 7 6 . . . O . X . . O . . O . . . . . . . 6 5 . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . . O . . 5 4 . . . O . X . . X , . X O O . O . . . 4 3 . . . O X . . . O . . X O X X X X . . 3 2 . . O X X . . X . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t
- gGo and qGo can import and export ASCII diagrams.
I wrote a Perl script that does that. Seel also http://www.dse.nl/~toni/go/ascii2sgf/index_uk.htm
- Is there a Go client that runs on my Palm Pilot or Pocket PC?
- How about
Pocket GNU Go ?
- I use Jeode (not more distributed?) as a VM for Jago on my Pocket PC. It's pretty fast and you can play or watch games on IGS everywhere!
- Mobile Go is an universal Go client for Palm OS
http://supportmobilego.blogspot.com
- IGoEnchi will work on PocketPC
- Jeode appears to have been relabeled as Esmertec Jbed and is supplied by Handango.
- Blake: Handango seems to be defunct. I have removed the link.
- How about
- Are there programs that let you connect directly to someone else ? The reason, obviously, is to be able to play games with coworkers during lunchbreaks, and avoiding the corporate firewall, which doesn't allow connections to Go servers on the internet.
- Jago can do direct connections to play local games.
Shades of Go can directly connect to Jago.
- And TanGo includes an easy to setup NNGS server, so you can use that too.
- Are there GUIs that can run two Go programs to compete each other via GTP? (useful to compare two versions when developing a Go program or when testing out various options)
- Drago & SmartGo are examples that can do this, probably others too.
- GoGUI includes a module (attachable program) called gogui-twogtp which can be used explicitly for this purpose and allows visualizing through the GoGUI interface. For an example of it's usage, see the following page:
WatchingNumbersGoUp
- GoGUI includes a module (attachable program) called gogui-twogtp which can be used explicitly for this purpose and allows visualizing through the GoGUI interface. For an example of it's usage, see the following page:
MJWhiteaker: Here's an idea I had: MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineWorldForGo