SirLyric: a question sparked by reading through Hikaru no Go - at one point in the story Waya offers to teach Hikaru how to write a kifu and shows him a very complex-looking form with what appears to be much more information than the standard record, including time information. I can't seem to find any information about this kifu style on the web, but the manga says it's used for recording pro games - can anyone elaborate here, or is this fictional?
Blake: It's necessary for the game recorder to keep track of how much time is used for each move. You may not have noticed, but this function is taken care of by the SGF format when you save a game from a go server. An "official" kifu would store all of the information that an SGF file would.