Go Client

A Go client provides a graphical interface to Go servers or/and Go programs .

Most Go clients are Go editing programs, but a few are also Go playing programs.

Table of contents IGS/NNGS clients Open source Freeware/commercial/other Clients for other servers (KGS etc.) Interfaces to Go playing programs Not Categorized Discussion

IGS/NNGS clients

Here is some client software in alphabetical order. Some of them are more than just IGS/NNGS-clients:

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)

IGoEnchi

An IGS Client for Windows Mobile and PocketPC, .NET 2.0, sourceforge project (open source)

Jago

Java client for playing locally or over Internet servers (IGS/NNGS), with many international versions available. Written in Java, open source (GPL version seems to still be available, see Jago). ( http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/ http://jagoclient.sourceforge.net/)

PandaPy

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)

q5Go

https://github.com/bernds/q5Go/releases is a port of qGo to QT5 framework with enhanced features.

RubyGo

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 do you have it on your computer? I have a copy of the file, but not the source code. How can I make it available to the group? mhlester@ca.rr.com

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

Ancient Go

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

CompoGo

can connect to 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

Full-featured Go program that's also an IGS and GTP client. For Windows. (commercial)

Tengen Go

An IGS client for the iPad. (commercial)

Tetsuki editor

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

Goigo : An IGS client for Android based phones

Bawego

Windows phone 7 client ?? (Since 2010?) See also store (from http://www.sharewareconnection.com/bawego.htm)

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.

Dragon Go Client

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

DragonGoApp

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

Go Siege

A multiplayer online go variant

Shades of Go @ archive.org

Client for GTP engines, supports Jago http://www.rene-grothmann.de/jago/'s peer-to-peer partner protocol. For Windows and the .Net framework.

Tiny Go

Client for Java on mobile phones (local play).

Interfaces to Go playing programs

Drago

Windows SGF editor/replayer interfaced with GTP engines (Freeware)

dango

User friendly shell wrapper for the ASCII interface of GNU Go, primarily for GNU/Linux and *BSD. Supports color boards in terminal and persistent user settings.

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?

http://www.peepo.com: Web-based front-end to Pachi

Quarry

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.

Sabaki

http://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/ Sabaki is a modern, elegant, cross-platform Go/Baduk/Weiqi board and SGF editor. It's free, open source and uses web technology based on Electron. Cross platform support for GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac.

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)

Not Categorized

• MultiGo
• GridMaster https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.tengen.gridmaster : Client & SGF editor for Android
• GnomeGo? http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomego/ : Client for Linux, integrates into the GNOME Desktop environment. Written in python.
• WildCard Go !, http://sites.google.com/site/goboardproject( For Windows XP/Vista) Documentation and review, Play against external Go engine

Discussion

• Is there a client that allows you to play online on mac/pc, android and iOS devices?

• Can Sabaki play online? Nothing is mentioned about IGS or NNGS on the website.

• 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.

• 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 (@archive.org) 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)

SabakiSoftware does this nicely, though the playing level of the engine seems to need to be set in the launcher command line configuration.

Drago & SmartGo are other 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

MJWhiteaker: Here's an idea I had: MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineWorldForGo