I thought there was something lying around that explained the .sgf format
but I'm not sure where it came from. It's been a number of years ago, and
the format may have changed a bit since then. I think I wrote something to
parse the file. I'll have to take a look through my old programs.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 8:03 AM Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds interesting. Would you be willing to make your program public? I'd
> love to see its output.
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 7:50 AM Turker Eflanli <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks! However, I have a program that reads an XG file and creates a
>> report. I would like to do the same on an sgf file, so I either need to
>> convert it to xg format or need to figure out the sgf format itself so I
>> can update my own program. I want to be able to do all this without the
>> help of either XG or GNU interfaces
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 10:44 AM Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> XG supports importing .sgf files. Look under File>Import>GnuBG.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 7:36 AM Turker Eflanli <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a way to convert a GNU analyzed sgf file to xg format?
>>>> If not, is there documentation that explains the sgf format?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>> Turker Eflanli
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 3:36 AM Øystein Schønning-Johansen <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you so much, Turker.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see I get some problems with this code when I try to read the WC2022
>>>>> final, however, I think the problems are solvable.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've gathered the code in a github repository:
>>>>> https://github.com/oysteijo/xgdatatools
>>>>>
>>>>> And just as I did that, I also saw that another github user has
>>>>> already done the same 3 years ago:
>>>>> https://github.com/zkitX/xgdatatools
>>>>>
>>>>> -Øystein
>>>>>
>>>>> fre. 12. aug. 2022 kl. 19:09 skrev Turker Eflanli <
>>>>> [email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Here they are - I don't remember where I had downloaded them from
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 12:01 PM Øystein Schønning-Johansen <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you so much, Turker!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> However, it would still be good to have the Petch-tools. :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Øystein
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> fre. 12. aug. 2022 kl. 16:58 skrev Turker Eflanli <
>>>>>>> [email protected]>:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Øystein,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Find attached the raw file that you can analyze in GNU
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 10:12 AM Øystein Schønning-Johansen <
>>>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I was thinking of analysing the WC 2022 final and found the final
>>>>>>>>> available in .xg format.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think Michael Petch wrote some tools to convert xg file into sgf
>>>>>>>>> format. Are these tools available somewhere?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It states at: https://www.extremegammon.com/XGformat.aspx
>>>>>>>>> that the python source for his tools are here:
>>>>>>>>> http://vcs.capp-sysware.com/gitweb/?p=backgammon/xgdatatools.git
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> However, it looks like this site is down.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> BTW: How is Michael? Is he still subscribing to this list? I've
>>>>>>>>> not heard from him in a long time. He posts on his FB profile, but he 
>>>>>>>>> isn't
>>>>>>>>> very responsive. :-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -Øystein
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>

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