Life In 19x19

https://github.com/IlyaKirillov/GoUniverse/issues/66


This basically means that all web clients not hosted by gokgs.com no longer work and kill off third-party web client development.

I don't like to ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence but if AGF really decided to close ...

shimari65 wrote:As the Vice President of the AGF, and the KGS Liaison, we have been looking for solutions for a long time. I have just written a piece for the EJ on this: https://www.usgo.org/news/2019/05/help- ... go-server/

Does the AGF still need a register module for KGS?

Thanks. Is there a status page where you can monitor the update?

https://senseis.xmp.net/?KGSServerStatus could be used to give a message about what is happening.

More widely, some people still seem not to know about the various clients which are available now.
British Go Association doesn't ...

There are good features, there are bad features. This is a bad one, i'm talking about "~" sign. There are only few people who rly care about go-community, but most other people just want to play, but somehow they now that "~" is something bad and refuse to play. BUT just the same people are ...

I was hopping the new Management would take a more energetic approach to engage with the community. Start an issue tracker and stuff like that. Guess not.

Chess needs such a notation because the board is constantly changing. With Go it's possible to show many moves in one diagram, with minor annotations for ko, pass etc. Also, the Go board is bigger than the chess board, so coordinates are more difficult to visualize, let alone sequences given in ...

How do you intend to use your syntax? Could you give an example?

I would like to make it easier to read and visualize a sequence of moves in plain text for use in emails and plaintext documents.

For example, you get something like

D17 D15 C15 D16 C16 E17 C14 D14 D13 C17 D18 B17 E18

The moves ...

My own thinking is to use this syntax:
[Move 45] -> b:A1 B2 C3 w:_ E5 F6 k:G7 H8 I9 w:T1 S2 The uppercase L is more clear than the ambiguity among:
⋅ I, I , I
⋅ 1, 1 , 1
⋅ l, l , l

A popular coordinate system omits the i column and skips to J.


Great, thank you ...

I searched a bit for a general convention but can't really find any. If anybody knows of any, please let me know as I do not want to reinvent the wheel.


My own thinking is to use this syntax:

[Move 45] -> b:A1 B2 C3 w:_ E5 F6 k:G7 H8 I9 w:T1 S2

(the moves are nonsensical)

1. Black plays A1 as ...

Since you are asking other people (some smart programmer) to do work, it seems reasonable to ask why it should be done, particularly when there is already an alternative out there. The assumption is that you see deficits in GoUniverse, or advantages in adapting the OGS interface, otherwise you ...

This is a good idea, but I do not understand how does this relate to my question about the difference between the interfaces OGS and GoUniverse?



Like I said I have nothing against Go Universe, I have no idea why Oren wanted to turn this into a Go Universe vs OGS thread and I am not interested ...

First of all, if where would be another client for KGS working through the JSON-API, then that client would have just the same problem with ban system. But Shubert already working on it, so this is a temporary problem.
It would be cool if you would describe what exactly do you like in OGS client ...

oren wrote:

Morgoth Bauglir wrote:Well, I guess GoUniverse is just too much like CGoban for me.

Why is that worse than OGS interface?

By that I mean I have no real incentive to move from CGoban to GoUniverse and risk being ban-poisoned. (Timestamps are not THAT important to me).

oren wrote:
Is there something about it you like better than GoUniverse? Just curious what the major differences are to you.

Well, I guess GoUniverse is just too much like CGoban for me.

OGS just opensourced its web interface at https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com .


Any smart programmer with some free time on his or her hands able to adapt it for KGS?