Go Databases
Here are some sources of game records, of varying sizes and quality.
- Nihon Kiin Said to sell a CD with 40,000 pro games. Proprietary format. Commercial.
- GoGoD 30,000+ pro games as of 2004-12. Also big database of tournament data and many programs and html articles. Ships with Kombilo. Commercial. SGF Format.
- MasterGo 23,000 pro games. Proprietary format. Commercial.
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BiGo Assistant : Currently one of the biggest fully-featured Go Games/Fuseki/Joseki Database. Claims more than 42,000 professional and more than 1M strong amateur games in the Full version, or more than 25 000 games (including 3000 pro) in the Tiny version (free trial available). Windows 98/ME/2000/XP. Commercial.
- GoBase.org : A collection of 35,000 pro games, a useful engine for pattern searches of joseki and fuseki in pro games, plus articles, biographies, etc. Too many other features to list here, one of the definitive online Go resources. Web interface, noncommercial, limited downloading. SGF Format.
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Go4Go ~5100 pro games (as of October 2004). Web interface. Limited downloading. For a small fee, you can subscribe to some or all of the new games they add (supposedly over 1500 a year) and/or download their entire current collection. SGF Format.
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Friday Night Files Jan van Rongen's collections, 2000+ pro games, mostly involving Cho Chikun or Yamashita Keigo. Noncommercial.
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http://sgf.mgoetze.net - collection of top European games (and possibly others, contributions welcome). In SGF Format of course. ;)
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Joot 3000+ professional games collected by Dave Jarvis
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Go Game World Many commented pro games. Commercial, by subscription. Associated with weiqi.tom.com.
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Fuseki Info : Online version of the BiGo Assistant Profi - professional Go games database (more than 35,000 games). Contains game records, game lists, fuseki and joseki trees.
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Go Game Assistant : Online version of the Go Game Assistant - A comprehensive tool for Go games. It can help you play, study Go games, comment a game with reference inserts, play online, record, print, manage Go files, convert different formats, and it even includes coaching courses. In addition, it help you study Go game and manage your Go game records collections very expediently. CD include (more than 35,000 games). Website in Chinese, but there's an English description of the related Windows shareware.
Database software
- Kombilo : Database software for studying saved games. Included in GoGoD
See also