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How Diagrams Work
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[Diagram]
Diag.: A taisha variation

Diagrams make discussing Go much easier. Don't worry, they are quite easy to use. You may want to click on [Edit] to the left in order to see the way diagrams work.
Diagrams are automatically made available as SGF files - clicking on their graphic will start a download for you.

All diagram lines start with two dollar signs "$$ ".

The first line is the title line - use a short descriptive title.

The diagram itself looks just like you are used from newsgroups or email discussions:

  • a dot "." is an empty intersection, an "O" is a white stone, and an "X" is a black stone.
  • a hoshi (star-point) can be inserted by using a comma "," instead of a dot.
  • the edge can be marked with one of "|", "+", or "-"

[Diagram]
Diag.: some simple markup

You can also include markup:

  • to mark with a square:
    • square on white stone: "@"
    • square on black stone: "#"
    • square on empty intersection: "S"
  • to mark with a circle:
    • circle on white stone: "W"
    • circle on black stone: "B"
    • circle on empty intersection: "C"
  • you can use letters on empty intersections by using the lowercase characters a-z.

[Diagram]
Diag.: Diagram starting with '$$B'
  • you can use numbers 1-9 and 0 on stones ('0' is used for '10'). By default "1" is a black stone with the color alternating (i.e. 2 is white, 3 is black, 4 is white ....) You can change that behaviour by using "$$W" in the title line: "1" is then a white stone.

[Diagram]
Diag.: Diagram starting with '$$W'

If you are in edit-mode and scroll down the window you will see that we have put two diagrams there for you to copy & paste. Also, there's a quick help included as well. Any questions left?



HolIgor has made a utility which formats a text diagram such as given by WinMGT to a format suitable for copy-and-pasting into SL.
More details on WinMGTtoSLFconverter.

--MortenPahle



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