Go Databases

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Here are some sources of game records, of varying sizes and quality.

Commercial Databases

  • BiGo - more than 1 500 000 games. About 50 000 of them are professional. Subscriptions available for updates. Proprietary format with possibility of export to SGF.
  • Go Assistant - 33,100 pro games. Main web site is in Chinese, but there is a small English language site also.
  • GoGoD - 40,288 pro games as of Summer 2006 and massive (hundreds of browser-ready pages) encyclopedia with player profiles, tournament info, Go history, and many other articles, from John Fairbairn and T. Mark Hall. Additionally ships with Kombilo and other programs.SGF format.
  • MasterGo - 33,000 pro games as of July 2005. Free games updates for six months after original purchase, and by paid subscription thereafter. Proprietary format, and individual games cannot be exported to SGF.
  • Nihon Kiin - Said to sell a CD with 40,000 pro games. Proprietary format.
  • SmartGo - 38,049 professional games as of June 2006. Free updates to both program and database. Proprietary format, but individual games can be exported to SGF.

Online Databases

  • GoBase.org - A searchable collection of 35,000 pro games, along with articles, biographies, and too many other features to list here. One of the definitive online Go resources. Non-commercial, limited downloading, free registration required. SGF format.
  • Go4Go - 12,700 pro games as of October 2006. Commercial, limited downloading, for a small fee new games can be delivered through e-mail and the entire database may be downloaded. Also a yearly subscription for commented games by Alexandre Dinerchtein. SGF format.
  • [ext] Fuseki Info - Online version of BiGo Assistant Profi (48,000 pro games). Free account with database of >2 500 games. Premium account is commercial, yearly subscription.
  • [ext] Go Game World - Over 1,000 commented pro games. Commercial, yearly subscription. Associated with [ext] weiqi.tom.com.

Other Game Collections


Database software

  • [ext] Go Game Assistant : A comprehensive tool for Go games. It contains a total of 56,877 professional games and 4,372 josekies. 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.
  • Kombilo : Database software for studying saved games. Included in GoGoD.
  • [ext] SGF Shell Extension : Extension for MS-Explorer to display and sort SGF game infos
  • sgftocsv.py : Small script that reads out infos from sgf files in a directory recursively and generates a csv table (Comma Separated Values) which can be read by as good as all spreadsheet programs and can be imported into databases.
  • SmartGo : Instant game filter, fuseki and joseki matching, free pattern matching.
  • Soksoo Database : Python program that generates SGF database joseki/trick moves from a game collection.
  • StoneBase : Free chinese program which includes a wealth of chinese language go databases.

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