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Encyclopedia of Life and Death
    Keywords: Life & Death, Software

[ext] Encyclopedia of Live and Death CD by Cho Chikun Kisei, Honinbo

From the [ext] Kiseido page. placeholder till folks that have the CD rewrite this.

The largest collection of life-and-death problems ever assembled in any format. Nearly 3,000 problem are contained in this user friendly software. The problems are divided into five categories:

  1. Beginner (200 problems)
  2. Elementary (922 problems)
  3. Intermediate (935 problems)
  4. Advanced (793 problems)
  5. Strange and unusual positions (28 problems)

Diligent study of this software will make your life-and-death problem-solving ability that of a dan-level player.

Note: This product runs only on IBM compatible machines (meaning MS-DOS)

The Elementary level problems include problem 405.

UlrichGoertz: In my opinion this is a great resource for players of almost all levels. The user interface is a bit outdated, though, so people may want to translate the problems into SGF format. Bill Shubert has written a tool which does this: [ext] cho2sgf (this is the source code in C, and should be easy to use on Unix systems). I have translated this into Python: [ext] cho2sgf.py; to use this version, you need to have [ext] Python installed. The problems can then be used with Uligo, for example.

bocephus: I have this and find it a wonderful resource, especially combined with Uligo. The MS-DOS part of the program doesn't work on my XP or Server 2000 boxes. It did work under an old 98 box. Luckily, you don't need a working install to run the script to convert for Uligo usage. Now if I can figure out how to get Uligo working for my Clie, I'll be all set.



This is a copy of the living page "Encyclopedia of Life and Death" at Sensei's Library.
(OC) 2004 the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0.