Ishi Format
Keywords: Software
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)
- gGo (Java)
- Go++ (Windows)
-
GoGoD95 (Windows), one of the game file viewers on Games of Go on Disk
- Goliath (Mac, Win32)
- GoScorer (Windows, included in !GoGoD95, part of Games of Go on Disk)
- Goscribe (DOS) (defunct)
- GoSimulator (DOS)
-
Hibiscus (Windows, a bit old-fashioned)
- Many Faces of Go
- Nemesis (DOS, Mac) older version claimed it could export to this...
- SmartGo
- Yago (Windows) (
download Yago)
Applications that can save to Ishi (.go, .prb)
- Many Faces of Go (version 10 and 11 ... and 12 ?)
Specific tools
- Steve Baileys's
Procishi
See also
Links
-
http://www.britgo.org/tech/ishispec.html -- Ishi specification by David Fotland