Go Client

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A Go client provides a graphical interface to Go programs or/and Go servers.

Most Go clients are Go Editing Programs, but few are Go playing programs, too.


Here are some client softwares in alphabetical order. Some of them are more than just IGS/NNGS-client:

[ext] ccGo
Written in C++. Use Gtk2-widgets. For Linux and other Unixes. Open source.
CGoban1
Uses X Window System. Open source.
CGoban2
An SGF editor and client for the Kiseido Go Server.
CGoban3
An SGF editor and client for the KGS Go Server.
Drago
Windows editor/replayer interfaced with GTP engines
[ext] Ergo
Java client for Go servers (open source)
[ext] Gcperl
Perl module client (supersedes Tkgc, open source)
[ext] Goban
A beautiful OS X editor and client that includes GnuGo.
[ext] Go Siege
A multiplayer online go variant
[ext] Igc2000
Another IGS/NNGS client.
[ext] Jago
Written in Java.
[ext] KGO
Client (open source)
KGSueMe
An unofficial and experimental Kiseido Go Server Client and Protocol module with nice graphics. Written in Perl and Gtk2. Use at your own risk.
Mlgo
Objective caml client.
[ext] Mobile Go
PalmOS client
Panda EGG
One of those official clients of IGS
PANDA-gGo
Formerly known as "gGo" and before that "qGo for Java". Written in Java. One of those official clients of IGS. Member of IGSCP.
PANDA-glGo
formerly know as glGo
qGo
Written in C++. Use Qt-widgets. Member of IGSCP. Works under both Windows and Unixes. Open source.
[ext] qigc
Client (using the qt library, open source)
[ext] Quarry
A client for GTP engines (e.g. GNU Go) + SGF viewer and editor. Free software, for UNIX-like systems.
[ext] RubyGo
Client written in Ruby. Open source. Member of IGSCP. Works under both Windows and Unixes.
[ext] SDL Go
Client that communicates with GNU Go through its ascii interface, supports GTP too
[ext] Shades of Go
Client for GTP engines, supports [ext] Jago's peer-to-peer partner protocol. For Windows and the .Net framework.
SmartGo
Full-featured Go program that's also an IGS and GTP client. For Windows.
[ext] TanGo
Client for Windows. Written in Visual Basic. Open source. Also contains an SGF viewer, GNU Go player and NNGS Server.
ViZiGO
Client for playing on servers
[ext] Xgospel
X-Window client for Go servers, no GNU Go support (open source)

Tips wanted

  • Is there a Go client which displays the remaining time SGF's tags "BL" and "WL"?

Yes, Drago. When a SGF file is read with BL and WL properties, it opens a panel to display the timing properties.

  • Which Go client or SGF editor imports ascii formatted positions via copy and paste? Or which software tool converts it into SGF? Example:
     a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t
  19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
  18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
  17 . O O O . . . . O . . X X X . . X . . 17
  16 . X O X O . O . . , O O X O . X . O . 16
  15 . X X X . . . . . . . . X O . . . . . 15
  14 . . . X . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . 14
  13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . . . . . 13
  12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
  11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
  10 . . X , . . . . . , . . . . . O . . . 10
   9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
   8 . . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . O(X). 8
   7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . O . X X . . 7
   6 . . . O . X . . O . . O . . . . . . . 6
   5 . . . . . . . . . . . X . . . . O . . 5
   4 . . . O . X . . X , . X O O . O . . . 4
   3 . . . O X . . . O . . X O X X X X . . 3
   2 . . O X X . . X . . . . . . . . . . . 2
   1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
     a b c d e f g h j k l m n o p q r s t
gGo and qGo can import and export ASCII diagrams.

I wrote a Perl script that does that. Seel also [ext] http://www.dse.nl/~toni/go/ascii2sgf/index_uk.htm

  • Are there programs that let you connect directly to someone else ? The reason, obviously, is to be able to play games with coworkers during lunchbreaks, and avoiding the corporate firewall, which doesn't allow connections to Go servers on the internet.
Jago can do direct connections to play local games.
[ext] Shades of Go can directly connect to Jago.
And TanGo includes an easy to setup NNGS server, so you can use that too.

Lawrie Hodges: Jeode appears to have been relabeled as Esmertec Jbed and is supplied by [ext] Handango


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