New Go News section at Go4Go to cover professional events
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2014 2:39 pm
Maintaining the Go4Go database is quite time-consuming, so I can only managed to add new functions to the site around this time every year when I am relatively free. This year's major new function is now online: http://www.go4go.net/go/tournaments/news
I am aware that many Go fans use Mr Kin's Go News site to follow professional events. I personally use it as a good reference. I've created a new section on Go4Go, natrually called 'Go News', roughly following his style and organisation. The difference is of course all my pages are dynamically generated from Go4Go database so information is better presented and more accurate (consistent name spellings, and much lower possibility for human errors).
You may be aware that over the years I've accumulated 900+ tournament score charts, with only a few linked from various places on the site. With the new 'Go News' section, most of these charts are now properly indexed, and historical games can be located much more easily.
Please report any problems. I will keep improving this. Not everything can be automated now. For example, reshuffling of seats at early rounds of international tournaments is quite often (so that players from same country do not meet too early). But this cannot be easily handled by software. So there will be delays presenting few tournaments. But overall this gives a rather complete coverage of major Go tournaments. Also I need to figure out how to provide information for those cells where game records are not available.
Go4Go database now contains nearly 45,000 games. As usual each one is manually examined and processed so I believe the quality is better than other collections. Quantity is currently not my major concern.
I am aware that many Go fans use Mr Kin's Go News site to follow professional events. I personally use it as a good reference. I've created a new section on Go4Go, natrually called 'Go News', roughly following his style and organisation. The difference is of course all my pages are dynamically generated from Go4Go database so information is better presented and more accurate (consistent name spellings, and much lower possibility for human errors).
You may be aware that over the years I've accumulated 900+ tournament score charts, with only a few linked from various places on the site. With the new 'Go News' section, most of these charts are now properly indexed, and historical games can be located much more easily.
Please report any problems. I will keep improving this. Not everything can be automated now. For example, reshuffling of seats at early rounds of international tournaments is quite often (so that players from same country do not meet too early). But this cannot be easily handled by software. So there will be delays presenting few tournaments. But overall this gives a rather complete coverage of major Go tournaments. Also I need to figure out how to provide information for those cells where game records are not available.
Go4Go database now contains nearly 45,000 games. As usual each one is manually examined and processed so I believe the quality is better than other collections. Quantity is currently not my major concern.
