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uliGo 0.3 is a program to practice Go problems.

Version 0.3 is now available. There have not been many changes. I somewhat improved (I hope) the look and feel; Patrice Fontaine contributed a nicer board and stones. In addition to solving problems, you can now also use uliGo to replay games, guessing the next move.
Furthermore, there is now a Windows installer, so you do not have to have Python installed on your computer in order to use uliGo.
uliGo is published under the GNU General Public License.
Some screenshots and the manual are available.
Please send me your comments! Any feedback is appreciated; bug reports are especially welcome. You can reach me at uligo@g0ertz.de.
Installation:
Windows On Windows machines, it is probably easiest to use the installer, which has Python bundled into it. For more information, see the new uliGo download page. Download installer (2.3MB).
Linux/Other platforms To run uliGo, you need to have the Python programming language installed on your computer (version 2.1 or better). You can get it at the Python website. A few more hints are available.
Once you have Python installed, all you need to do is to download the .tar.gz file(Linux) resp. one of the .zip files (Windows, Macintosh) below and unpack it. A directory named uligo03 will be created. This directory will contain the documentation (uligo.doc) and all the files you need to run the program. Start it with "python uligo.py". On a Windows machine, you should be able to start it by double-clicking the 'uligo.pyw' file, or by using a command like "c:\python21\python uligo.pyw". More information is available here.
Download:
uligo03.tar.gz (340KB)
uligo03.zip (for Windows) (340KB)
uligo03.zip (340KB)
(The only difference between the two zip files is that in the first one the main file is called "uligo.pyw", so that, under Windows, double-clicking this file will open the program without opening a console window.)

30 problems from Jan van der Steen's site

Here are 30 more problems that you can use with uliGo; just copy the file to the sgf subdirectory. They have been made available by Jan van der Steen (here). They come from an advertisement in the Kido magazine, and to the best of my knowledge are freely distributable. They were put into SGF format by Dan Stromberg.

Download: kido.sgf (3KB).

Classical Go Problems

Here you can find more problems from classical collections. I am grateful to the Flygo website for making these problems available for download and for allowing me to distribute the problems here.

cho2sgf.py

If you own Cho's Encyclopedia of Life and Death on disk, you can use the program below to translate it into SGF format. Again, you will need Python. A similar program, cho2sgf.c, was written by Bill Shubert (in C), and cho2sgf.py is mostly just a translation of Bill's program. It is published under the GNU General Public License, and it comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

It uses David Goodgers sgflib.py library.

cho2sgf.py takes the main database ("abc") of the Encyclopedia and writes its problems into four SGF files: abc-el.sgf, abc-im.sgf, abc-adv.sgf, abc-oth.sgf. These contain the elementary, intermediate, advanced, and non-classified problems, respectively. It also writes information about which variations are correct and which are wrong to the files, in the format that is used by uliGo. So you can just copy the SGF files into uliGo's sgf directory, and use them.

Of course, the Encyclopedia of Life and Death itself is copyrighted and is not freely distributable. It is available from Kiseido and Het Paard. It contains nearly 3000 problems, from the very easy to most difficult problems. I definitely recommend it!

Download:

cho2sgf.tar.gz (29KB), cho2sgf.zip (33KB).

Usage: Unpack the file in the directory with the files from the Encyclopedia, and run it (with 'python cho2sgf.py').

Last modified: Saturday, 28-Feb-2004 13:18:21 CET. Contact: uligo@g0ertz.de. To my homepage. Also check out Kombilo, a go database program which I have written.