alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr) (03/10/86)
Here are the board formats I use in my program goban, which is a
computer go board. If there are initial stones (as in a
problem) they are listed first. The board is listed with one
row and two columns per grid point. The international standard
of skipping over the letter I is used. Periods are used to mark
grid points since they are visually the least obtrusive
character, even if they are not centered. Pluses are used for
the star points since they are symmetric characters and are more
prominent than the dots. (Pluses are an enhancement I would
like to see). Asterisks are used for black stones since they are
one of the densest characters, and once again are symmetric.
Capital 'O's are used for white pieces since they are one of the
most open characters and almost totally symmetric. At the end,
the number of prisoners is listed. "White stones captured" is
less ambiguous than "White prisoners".
Black at: C3 C4 D5 F3 F5.
White at: C2 D3 E2 E4.
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T
19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
16 . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . 16
15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
10 . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . 10
9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5 . . . * . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4 . . * + O . . . . + . . . . . + . . . 4
3 . . * O . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 . . O . O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T
White stones captured: 0. Black: 0.
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Here for example is the game from the book "The Master of Go",
by Yasunari Kawabata. (This is the builtin, default game in
goban). Note that there is room down the side for the first 40
moves (which is plenty for problems). Then there is a blank
line because the next moves are written out across the line. I
would like to change that to writing them out in columns but we
would have to make the software a shade smarter.
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T
19 . * . * O O . . O O * . . . . . . . . 19 1: R16 R4.
18 . . . . * O O O . O * * * * . . . . . 18 3: D3 C5.
17 . * * * * O . O O * * O . O * * . . . 17 5: E4 P16.
16 * * O * O * O * * + * . O O O + * . . 16 7: P17 O17.
15 * O O O O * . * * . * * O . O O * . . 15 9: Q17 N16.
14 O O O * * * . * . . * O O O . * . . . 14 11: O15 P15.
13 O . O O . . O . * * O . O . O * . . . 13 13: O18 O14.
12 . O O * * O . . * O O O O * O * . . . 12 15: N18 O3.
11 . . O * * * O O * . * O * * * . . * . 11 17: Q14 C15.
10 . . O * . * * O * * * * O O * + * O . 10 19: C17 E16.
9 . . O * * * O O O O O * O O * * * * * 9 21: E17 F17.
8 . O * * . * * * O . O * O . O * O O * 8 23: F16 G16.
7 . . O * . * O O . O * * O . O O O * * 7 25: F15 E15.
6 . . O * * O O O . O * * O O . O * * . 6 27: G17 F18.
5 O O O O * * O * . . O * O * . . O O * 5 29: E18 G18.
4 O * O + * . * O O O . O . O . + O . * 4 31: F14 H17.
3 * * * * . * . * O . . . . O . . . O O 3 33: E14 C16.
2 . . . . . . * * O O . . . . . . . . . 2 35: B17 C12.
1 . . . . . . . * * O . . . . . . . . . 1 37: D11 C11.
A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P Q R S T 39: D10 C10.
41: D9 C9. 43: D8 C7. 45: D6 C6.
47: D7 K4. 49: K17 K15. 51: J15 K16.
53: J16 J17. 55: L17 J14. 57: H15 K14.
59: H14 K18. 61: L18 J19. 63: O5 O4.
65: M5 M4. 67: M15 M14. 69: L14 N15.
71: M13 N14. 73: L16 L13. 75: L15 M12.
77: K13 N13. 79: Q12 K12. 81: J13 R8.
83: R10 S10. 85: S11 P8. 87: S9 L5.
89: H3 H4. 91: G4 G3. 93: H2 J3.
95: H5 J4. 97: G2 L8. 99: L11 L12.
101: S7 S8. 103: T8 R7. 105: S6 R5.
107: B4 D13. 109: B16 B15. 111: D17 G5.
113: F3 H6. 115: P10 O10. 117: O11 N10.
119: P9 O9. 121: H16 H18. 123: R6 Q6.
125: T4 S3. 127: N11 M11. 129: O8 S5.
131: O7 P7. 133: M10 N9. 135: M9 N8.
137: M8 N7. 139: M7 N6. 141: M6 N5.
143: K10 J2. 145: T5 T3. 147: T7 B5.
149: B3 J9. 151: J10 H10. 153: J11 K9.
155: H8 H9. 157: F5 G6. 159: G8 J8.
161: C8 B8. 163: O12 N12. 165: R9 P13.
167: Q13 E19. 169: D19 F19. 171: B19 H7.
173: J1 K1. 175: H1 K2. 177: A15 A14.
179: A16 C14. 181: Q8 Q7. 183: Q9 O6.
185: F7 F6. 187: E6 A5. 189: L7 K7.
191: F9 D5. 193: E5 H11. 195: J12 F10.
197: D16 E10. 199: E9 D15. 201: B13 B14.
203: C13 B12. 205: D14 A13. 207: D12 F12.
209: E12 C13. 211: F11 G11. 213: E11 L9.
215: L10 G13. 217: L19 K19. 219: L6 K6.
221: G10 G9. 223: F10 G7. 225: F8 A4.
227: A3 C4. 229: C3 P12. 231: P11 Q15.
233: R15 O16. 235: T9 M17. 237: M18
White stones captured: 7. Black: 7.
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