Study Assistance Software / Archive

This archive page holds links to software that is no longer available, very old, or no longer maintained.

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

Internet Sites

• BruGo -- online joseki dictionary

Programs (that run on your local computer)

• baduK pattern software -- baduK, searching for patterns within game collections. (Open Source) many clones exist on GitHub
• Dariush http://ricoh51.free.fr/indexeng.htm Pattern software
• 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
• 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).
• 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.
• 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
• 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

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