Ishi Format

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During the early 1990s, Ishi was a file format to store Go games. It is now the only game file format, which allowes to print it out to replay a game by the coordinates.

File example

 EVENT old Chinese game
 BLACK Shi Xiang-Xia
 WHITE Fan Xi-Ping
 DATE 1739
 BOARDSIZE 19
 RESULT W+15
 KOMI -2
 SETUP W D16 Q4
 SETUP B D4 Q16
 W 1 R14
 B 2 R9
 W 3 F3
 B 4 L3
 W 5 R7
 B 6 O3
 ( ... )
 B 58 D11
 PRISONER  D12 D13
 COM
 B's situation is now worse.
 ENDCOM

Nota bene: the Ishi format doesn't use the "i" in the coordinates

Applications that can handle Ishi (.go, .prb)

Applications that can save to Ishi (.go, .prb)

Specific tools

See also

Links


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