Study assistance software

This is a list of computer programs or internet sites that can help you study. Some offer interactive study problems, some solve problems you setup. They are not fully functional go playing programs. For other programs see Go Programs.

Table of contents Internet Sites Programs (that run on your local computer) Scripts See also

Internet Sites

• Waltheri - free go pattern search engine.
• BruGo -- online joseki dictionary
• EidoGo -- Web-based joseki tutor and SGF replayer
• fuseki info : Online version of the BiGo Assistant Profi - professional Go games database (more than 48,000 games). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees.
• GhostGo: a website that allows you to practice Tsumego
• Go Game Assistant : Online version of the Go Game Assistant - A comprehensive tool for Go games. It can help you play, study , comment a game with reference inserts, play online, record, print, manage Go files, convert different formats, and it even includes coaching courses. CD include (more than 35,000 games).
• Go Guess a guess the next move program from the same author as Go Tools
• Guo Juan's Internet Go School -- Online Go teaching school, recorded audio Go lectures.
• Kiseido Digital Books -- online commentaries of master games, using animated go boards
• Zbaduk - Offers review tools with AI capabilities. Uses LeeLa Zero.

Programs (that run on your local computer)

• BiGo - more than 1 500 000 games. About 50 000 of them are professional. Full board, half board and 3/4 board Fuseki, Joseki (12x12 and 9x9 corners) bases with billions variations built from all games.
• baduK pattern software -- baduK, searching for patterns within game collections. (Open Source) many clones exist on GitHub
• Complete Gu-Go? http://www.magnolia.co.jp/ (Page is in Japanese) Monte Carlo based software. 12.800 yen
• Dariush http://ricoh51.free.fr/indexeng.htm Pattern software
• Drago -- Drago is a SGF viewer/editor you can use to replay problems and games, and play against GNU Go.
• Encyclopedia Of Life And Death
• Fuseki Made Easy
• Go Album -- Organizes a collection of Go problems with which to practice your reading skills.
• Go Dojo: Contact Fights -- tutoring on close combat technique (not tesuji or life and death) and Sector Fights -- tutoring on strategy
• Go Elementary Training and Dan Level Testing
• gogameonline Life and death problems for Windows http://www.gogameonline.com -- Solve go game life and death problems to promote your skill. Also available for mobile
• GoGoD http://www.gogod.co.uk -- Go database plus many features suitable for go study, and many pro commentaries.
• GoGrinder -- A Java program for practicing Go problems.
• GoKnot Plays locally (using the included GNU Go), Analyzes: score, territory, best moves, dragons. Plays and observes (multiple games) at IGS, creates bitmaps of boards, and more. (Windows only)
• goproblemscom2gquiz.sh
• GoReviewPartner Open source project which presents computer analysis from various AI of a game.
• Gotaro's 5800 Go Problems - English Trial Version? http://gotaro.homeip.net/ : downloadable, free of charge for testing, from the Gotaro website for Windows 2000/Me/XP/Vista. Covers 2000 tsumego problems, 1800 tesuji problems and 2000 fuseki problems for 9 kyu up to dan level players. Computer plays moves responsive to any good or bad moves you play. The trial version changes into a formal full version by entering a license key number (US$65.00).
• Go Tools -- THE best known, and possibly buggiest tsumego solver
• Jacoto -- A game collection manager.(GPL).
• Jseki -- A tsumego teaching tool
• Kombilo -- Database software for studying saved games. Included in GoGoD
• MadLab -- A program for solving open-space capture problems (tesuji)
• MasterGo -- Go database and search engine (well suited for joseki and fuseki-study)
• MoyoGo Studio
• Perfect Tsumego Play Applet? http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/go/shape/ShapeApplet.html -- This applet uses a shape database to play for all positions that are directly contained in the shape database; which are roughly all simple eye shapes of size 7 or less, located anywhere on the board, and all positions that are successors in normal play of those positions.
• SmartGo -- Go database, SGF editor and player (current version uses Go Tools as tsumego solver).
• SmartGo Books -- Go bookstore & reader for iOS.
• StoneBase http://www.stonebase.cn/stonebase/eng/index.html -- Free Go database, SGF editor, player(using GNU Go). (Windows) Has english and chinese versions.
• Tesuji Made Easy
• uliGo -- A program to practice Go problems.
• WildCardGo, http://sites.google.com/site/goboardproject( For Windows XP/Vista) Documentation and review, Play against external Go engine, Life and Dead/Best move study

Scripts

• disort.sh - sorts the problems from www.goproblems.com in order of the rank - for linux users.
• sortProblemsByRank.bat - accomplishes the same as disort.sh but for windows xp users.

See also

• Go Programs
• Problems and exercises