Life In 19x19

If you've visited Go Game Guru in the last few weeks, you might or might not have noticed that we've been setting up a professional Go calendar, which you can use to keep track of when upcoming pro games will be played.

I'd like to thank trout, from Life in 19x19, in particular for his generous help in keeping it up to date.

We were originally just setting up a calendar up for ourselves, to help us plan the Go news reports better, but then we decided that a calendar would be useful for other people too.

It's still a work in progress, but it's starting to cover a reasonable amount of the important games that are happening. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome. Also, if you'd like to help us maintain this resource, please let me know.

I take it from the response, that we've misread this one a bit and there's actually not much interest in a resource like this?

I posted this here partly to get feedback about whether it was worth committing time to maintaining a calendar in this format. If you think time is better spent on something else, then that feedback is useful too.

Thanks

I think it is a great resource that works well if you know where to look for the games. Perhaps part of the problem we hit here is many people aren't sure where they can find the game to watch it?

You can watch most(probably all of it.) of games on wbaduk or tygem.

gogameguru wrote:I take it from the response, that we've misread this one a bit and there's actually not much interest in a resource like this?

I posted this here partly to get feedback about whether it was worth committing time to maintaining a calendar in this format. If you think time is better spent on something else, then that feedback is useful too.

Thanks

Take this as you will, but over the time I've been a member on the forum, I've heard several different people lament the lack of something exactly like this. Admittedly, it is not something I intend to use myself (I prefer the entertainment of playing or reading lectures over that of watching pro games). I was just guessing that more people would be interested in it than have responded here.

Of course, whether the amount of interest makes it worth your while is something that only you can decide.

I don't have the time to devote to watching professionals play games, even quicker TV games. I prefer to just look at the SGF afterward, and hope An Younggil writes commentary on it (:D). Perhaps if I could understand the language of the TV commentators, I would watch more live games. But since I'm not watching games live, I don't usually feel the need to know what's upcoming in the professional circuit.

I've added it to my google calendars and like it. Great job!

I know that this means more work, and I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble, but the main point of such a calendar is so that one can watch the games. If there is no information as to where and when the game will be broadcast, I don't see it as being of much use.

daal wrote:I know that this means more work, and I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble, but the main point of such a calendar is so that one can watch the games. If there is no information as to where and when the game will be broadcast, I don't see it as being of much use.

Almost all the games are on wbaduk.

Thanks for your feedback so far everyone.

One thing I'm taking from this is that we should add a comment at the beginning that you can watch the games on Tygem and WBaduk.

Daal: I know having the exact time of each game would make things more convenient, but if there's only limited interest in this anyway, I know you'll understand if we don't put even more effort into it right now.

gogameguru wrote:Thanks for your feedback so far everyone.

How hard would it be to add the actual starting time rather than just make it an all day event on the calendar?

oren wrote:

gogameguru wrote:Thanks for your feedback so far everyone.

How hard would it be to add the actual starting time rather than just make it an all day event on the calendar?

The problem is information of playing time is not available until maybe sometime couple of days or not at all before playing day.

trout wrote:The problem is information of playing time is not available until maybe sometime couple of days or not at all before playing day.

But just as often, the major match start times are well known. For Japanese matches, I have little problem finding starting times.

Detailed information like that may or may not be available when one of us checks one of several websites in different languages. Going back later (sometimes several times) to update everything with match times would more than double the amount of work involved. It's a community effort, so I don't want to ask too much of other people's time or my own.

Oren, are you interested in helping to keep the Japanese events up to date? You could add the match times for Japanese games (at least) if you know how to obtain that information.