Study assistance software
Keywords: 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.
Internet Sites
- InfluenceMap -- Interactive go maps (influence, tension, etc.)
- Html Go -- Interactive Goboard in Html (
http://www.misterx.cistron.nl/htmlgo/index.html)
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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.
- EidoGo -- Web-based joseki tutor and SGF replayer
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GOTV -- Go tutor with voice and "Pause and Try" function. Hundreds of lessons and game reviews. Chinese only. Lessons can be played online, or downloaded and played using offline player.
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Web-based sgf replayer using only java / javascript, no server-side scripting support required.
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)
- Drago -- Drago is a SGF viewer/editor you can use to replay problems and games, and play against GNU Go.
- 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)
- Go Dojo: Sector Fights -- tutoring on strategy
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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).
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GoGoD -- 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)
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gquiz. General-purpose program for asking Go-problems. Tries to avoid problems you already answered right and repeats problems you answered wrong. Very nice to use with CGoban1.
- Go Tools -- THE best known, and possibly best tsumego solver
- Jacoto -- A game collection manager.(GPL).
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Life and death problems for Windows -- Solve go game life and death problems to promote your skill.
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Life and death problems for mobile devices -- Enjoy go game anytime, anywhere. Support the following mobile devices: Pocket PC, Smartphone, Palm, Symbian, Java.
- MadLab -- A program for solving open-space capture problems (tesuji)
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MasterGo -- Go database.
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Perfect Tsumego Play Applet -- 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.
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SmartGo -- Go database, SGF editor and player.
- StoneBase -- Free Go database, SGF editor, player(using GNU Go). Has english and chinese versions.
- uliGo -- A program to practice Go problems.
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.