Go Client

Go clients are applications that make online playing in Go servers possible without the use of a web browser.

Most Go clients are SGF editors also. A few can be used to play against the computer also.

Table of contents IGS/NNGS clients Open source Freeware/commercial/other Clients for other servers Discussion

IGS/NNGS clients

Open source

ccGo

A GTK 2 X11 client.

CGoban

An X11 client (CGoban 2 and CGoban 3 are KGS clients).

Jago

A client for IGS/NNGS, WING, and LGS and a server (for Jago clients only).

q5Go

A Qt 5 client.

Xgospel

An X11 client.

Freeware/commercial/other

Ancient Go

Play locally against Fuego, OGS client (Windows, Steam, Commercial)

CompoGo

Client for IGS and Dragon Go Server (Freeware)

ElyGo

An IGS client for Android (commercial)

Go.BA.net

Web App with no registration or login. Play against GNU Go online, or share games with SGF viewer. Also available iPad and iPhone apps.

Go Knot

Play locally against Gnu Go, IGS client (Windows, Shareware)

GoPanda

One of the official clients of IGS. (Probably the only official client, at least as of 2022.)

Mobile Go

PalmOS client (commercial, free basic edition)

Panda EGG

One of the official clients of IGS.

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 (early open source version was withdrawn by the author)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 for Windows

Full-featured Go program that is also an IGS client.

Tengen Go

An IGS client for the iPad. (commercial)

Tetsuki editor

The official free IGS client for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad).

The Many Faces of Go

Clients for other servers

CGoban 3

The official KGS client.

Dragon Go Client

An iPhone/iPod Touch client to the Dragon Go Server.

DragonGoApp

An open-source Android client to the Dragon Go Server.

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:

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 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
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gGo and qGo can import and export ASCII diagrams.

MJWhiteaker: Here's an idea I had: MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineWorldForGo