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 - 54,623 pro games as of Winter 2008 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 - 47,670 pro games as of January 2009. Free games updates. Proprietary format, and individual games cannot be exported to SGF.
- MoyoGo Studio - 57,000 pro games (about 2000 games from 2008)
- Nihon Kiin - Said to sell a CD with 40,000 pro games. Proprietary format. --> tapir: "said to sell"
- SmartGo - >45,000 professional games as of January 2009. 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, paid 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.
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Fuseki Info - Online version of BiGo Assistant Profi (65,000 pro games). Free account with database of >2 500 games. Premium account is commercial, yearly subscription.
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Fuseki Info for KGS Go Server - Online database of KGS Go Server games (77,000 strong ama games). Free.
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Go Game World - Over 1,000 commented pro games. Commercial, yearly subscription. Associated with
weiqi.tom.com.
Other Game Collections
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Andries Brower's collection - 1,111 pro games from other sources in SGF format. Not maintained. Public domain.
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Ang-Yue's pro games and problems collection: - Li Ang (3p) and Li Yue (9d) offer nearly 4,000 pro games and over 4,000 go problems for download on their website.
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Byheart - Around 1,500 pro games in SGF format. Complete games of Go Seigen, among others.
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Flygo - In Chinese.
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Friday Night Files - Jan van Rongen's collections, 2,000+ pro games, mostly involving Cho Chikun or Yamashita Keigo.
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Michael's SGF Repository - Collection of top European amateur games (and possibly others, contributions welcome). SGF Format.
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Scryer's Yi Se-tol Site - Aims to collect the complete games of Yi Se-tol, with 368 games currently available. Part of Go4Go.
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Ulrich Goertz's SGF Game Records - High dan level amateur games from KGS, used with permission.
- Use this link to search the Google RGG archives for posted (sometimes commented) games :
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=GM%5B1%5D+group:rec.games.go
Database software
- Drago : Windows freeware. Client to libkombilo library which provides all database features from Kombilo.
- Deepthinkgohelper
http://www.deepthinkgohelper.com Chinese program with 22000 professional games.
- Go Game Assistant
http://www.go-assistant.com/english/index.htm : A comprehensive tool for Go games. It contains a total of 56,877 professional games and 4,372 joseki. 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. Integrated in GoGoD, Drago.
- MasterGo : Search engine designed for joseki / fuseki study complete with a proprietary game database.
- SGF Shell Extension?
http://www.gomasch.de/sgfshellex : 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.
- StoneBase : Free chinese program which includes a wealth of chinese language go databases.---
See also
- Kombilo vs Master Go
- Jacoto
- Link Collection under "Saved (and commented) games on the internet"