First of all sorry for forgetting the title in the previous posting. As David Fotland pointed out to me, sgf is of course not suited for humans to read. See the following example, for the first ten moves of a game.
copied from sgf B[pp]; W[qd]; B[cp]; W[fq]; B[dq]; W[jp]; B[mq]; W[kq]; B[hp]; W[hq]; ********** translated to Ishi-go B 1 Q4 W 2 R16 B 3 C4 W 4 F3 B 5 D3 W 6 K4 B 7 N3 W 8 L3 B 9 H4 W 10 H3 *********** modified Ishi-go 1. q4 2. r16 3. c4 4. f3 5. d3 6. k4 7. n3 8. l3 9. h4 10. h3 ***************************** Ishi-go is much better to read, but - at least for people from the west - my "modified Ishi-go-format" should be even better. (The repetitive B W are a bit annoying in Ishi-go, and small letters are better to read than capital ones.) To give you an impression about the size of the market in Germany. Let's assume that in principle a go program with nice analysis mode (and current strength) might be interesting for human players in the range 2k - 3d. The German rating list shows the following ranks: Rank-No rating 80 2301 143 2200 216 2100 342 2000 479 1900 611 1800 1800-1900 is about 2k 1900-2000 1k 2000-2100 1d 2100-2200 2d 2200-2300 3d These German ratings do not fit exactly with KGS ratings, but there is rather strong correlation. So, there should be a market of several hundred potential customers, alone in Germany, for a program with nice analysis mode. Ingo. -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dslspecial.gmx.de/freedsl-surfflat/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
