Go diagram

The Go4Go system includes a number of smart text filters to help convert texts in predefined formats to more meaningful presentations for Go. These are based on BBCode syntax which is widely used in many forum systems.

Sensei's Library is a popular collaborative web site about the game of Go. To facilitate discussions of Go board positions, the website defines an easy-to-use markup language and uses a back-end program to generate Go diagrams from text input. This open-source program has been integrated into Go4Go's content management system so all user posts here can also benefit from such nice feature.

Assume you already learned how to Use Sensei's Library format to prepare Go diagrams, you rarely need to start everything from scratch. Here are a number of templates to start with (use copy/paste):

To make it easy to discuss board positions, especially together with Go diagrams, Go4Go.net has defined a collection of board markup symbols as emotion icons (also known as smilies) to use in posts. Just like you can display a happy face by using :), you can also use our predefined text sequences to display move numbers and special symbols.

Kombilo is a Go database management and pattern search program. It can generate Sensei's Library text output. The description here is based on version 0.7.4 of Kombilo.

Drago is a Windows application. It allows SGF viewing/editing, as well as Go database management. The description here is based on version 4.2.1 of Drago.

The Quarry application allows users to play Go against computer programs, or view and edit game records. This is my favorite Go application under Linux. The description here is based on version 0.2.0 of Quarry (unfortunately it is no longer in active development).