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Topic: Smart Game Format

	Sensei's Library: Smart Game Format
		Games stored in SGF format can easily be emailed, posted or processed with text-based tools.
		SGF files are comprised of pairs of properties and property values, each of which describes a feature of the game.
		SGF files are used by many Go editing programs and are even used on rec.games.go.
	senseis.xmp.net /?SGF (859 words)

	Portable Game Notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portable Game Notation (.PGN) is a computer-processable format for recording chess games (both the moves and related data); many chess programs recognize this extremely popular format due to its accessibility by ordinary ascii editors, including word processors capable of importing and exporting plain ascii.
		There are two formats in the PGN specification, the "import" format and the "export" format.
		The import format describes data that may have been prepared by hand, and is intentionally lax; a program that can read PGN data should be able to handle the somewhat lax import format.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portable_Game_Notation (1134 words)

	Smart Chess Viewer Database Management Chess Software
		Smart Chess Viewer is a powerful and flexible utility for replaying and annotating chess games in.pgn (portable game notation) format.
		Smart Chess Viewer allows you to comment a game in the most effective way possible, by using visual representation.
		Smart Chess Viewer lets you to imbed these graphical comments directly into the.pgn file, allowing the user to save his annotations for later replay.
	www.chesscentral.com /chess_download/smartchess.htm (778 words)

	sgf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Go is the game that is most commonly represented in this format.
		SGF uses a tree-based representation of the game to store information; the tree structure makes the addition of variations simple.
		Compare: Portable Game Notation, a common computer format for recording games of Chess.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /SGF.html (126 words)

	rec.games.go FAQ v 2.11 (Last Update:May 2004)
		When watching a game, advice should in general not be given to the players, although commenting ('kibitzing') the game with other bystanders is fine, as long as the players do not mind.
		Recording Go games --------------------------------------------------------------------- The usual convention is to label the Goban from left to right with letters from A to T (omitting 'I' to avoid confusion with '1') and from bottom to top (as seen by fl) with numbers from 1 to 19.
		Recently, the Smart Game Format (.sgf files) has become the most used format, and it is also the most frequently used format on the go servers.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/games/go-faq (10201 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Fun & Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Games home page displays the top five games for each game type, as well as whether the games are single player or multiplayer and how many people are currently playing them online.
		Games is a great place to play some fun games, but this is more than just a site on which to play Pinochle or Checkers.
		The chart lists the name of the tournament, the game that will be played at the tournament (there are tournaments for pool, backgammon, cribbage, and many other games), the pairing and format of the tournament (whether it’s single elimination or free form), the start time of the tournament, and the tournament host.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/archive/r1002/26r02/26r02.asp&guid= (1215 words)

	Re: [gnugo-devel] SGF stands for "smart game format"
		This library is called @code{libsgf.a} +smart game files, SGF files, with complete handling of game trees +in memory and in files.
		Games (with comments, variations and other features) can be -stored in the Smart Go Format (SGF).
		Code related to the user interface, reading and -writing of smart go format files, and testing are found in the +writing of smart game format files, and testing are found in the directories @file{interface/}, @file{sgf/}, and @file{regression/}.
	lists.gnu.org /archive/html/gnugo-devel/2004-03/msg00033.html (918 words)

	SGF Users Guide
		SGF is a file format used to store game records of two player board games.
		SGF consists of nodes which are structured in a tree, i.e.
		SGF allows you to store variations of the main path of play, which is useful for analyzing different lines of play.
	www.red-bean.com /sgf/user_guide/index.html (2155 words)

	Ape Escape Academy review for the PSP
		The tic-tac-toe format is really just a banana peel to be discarded for the juicy meat of the mini-games themselves.
		On the other end of the spectrum are games that are nearly impossible, especially at the higher grades.
		It seems like a smart evolutionary step for the series to begin aping (ha) Nintendo's better handheld experience, but not when it treads down a path paved with banana peels, which, I am conditioned to believe, are very slippery.
	www.gamerevolution.com /review/psp/ape_escape_acade (866 words)

	Mobile - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com
		Smart phones are ringing in a new era of handheld devices that celebrates the functionality of a feature-rich PDA, without the heavy pocket-load.
		Platform interoperability appears to be a long way off, but if you're the proud owner of a smart phone with a Symbian OS (like a Nokia or a Sony Ericsson), you're part of a flexible network that accepts a wide range of third-party software.
		Most smart phones come with an average of 32MB free internal storage after the native programs are launched.
	www.download.com /How-to-make-your-Symbian-phone-smarter/1200-2005_4-5168109.html (881 words)

	Analyze Professional Games
		There is a great deal of information contained in these game records, and it may be possible to analyze these game records to produce data which some of the Moyoman modules can use in their play.
		If the first 30 to 40 moves of the professional games were used to compare with the actual opening being played by Moyoman, if the exact game position had occurred before, then all of the follow up moves which had been played could easily be identified, and each of those moves recommended.
		The SGF (Smart Game Format) is a concise and understandable file format, and approximately 700,000 games could be stored in 1 gigabyte without compression, so that would be an obvious choice.
	www.moyoman.org /analyze.html (986 words)

	Go Teaching Ladder - Frequently Asked Questions
		games where you really were thinking hard, had proper time limits and were somehow overcome by your opponent without you recognising where you made a mistake.
		SGF provides many features such as board markup, comments, game information, setup positions etc. For more information have a look at the SGF User Guide at .
		Technically speaking the GTL holds the copyright of the SGF files themselves, but not of the game moves and not of the commentary made by the players/reviewers.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/games/go/gtl-faq (3504 words)

	MLB '06: The Show review for the PS2
		The deal states that only 2K Games and first-party developers (such as Sony) can make officially-licensed MLB games, which is why EA's latest slugger featured the Berkeley Bears instead of the Chicago Cubs.
		As a sort of counter-point to the game time decisions, you now have an "interaction" menu where you can do things like talk smack about your team to the press, request more playing time, or ask to be traded.
		A new mini-game called King of the Diamond improves upon the format of the batting mini-game found in last year's MVP 2005 as well as this year's NCAA title by adding the concept of ghost-runners.
	www.gamerevolution.com /review/ps2/mlb_06_the_show (1174 words)

	Take a pilgrimage with me for GO @ WeBlog.ro
		The file format is designed to store game records of board games for two players.
		Combinatorial Game Theory studies strategies and mathematics of two-player games of perfect knowledge such as chess or go (but often either concentrating instead on simpler games such as nim, or solving endgames and other special cases).
		An important distinction between this subject and classical game theory (a branch of economics) is that game players are assumed to move in sequence rather than simultanously, so there is no point in randomization or other information-hiding strategies.
	www.weblog.ro /GO-game (247 words)

	GoKnot help:
		SGF is the acronym of "Smart Game Format".
		The SGF file format allows storing: a move, a node name, remarks (as text of any length), symbols (from a predefined set), an evaluation of the position (also from a predefined set), evaluation of the move, timing information and a value assigned to the node.
		SGF) and when not (as in gke, which was never done before), it creates a new interface which is: public, documented and you can download the source code of a gke engine.
	www.dybot.com /goknot/doc/fundqa.htm (1674 words)

	GameSpy.com - Gaming's Homepage
		The game was one of the most important games to the PlayStation, helping cement Sony's market dominance, and it also illustrated that RPGs -- a genre many publishers shied away from due to some early flops in the NES days -- could become popular in the west.
		I didn't like the first demo of the game, but I ended up enjoying the final product, and it was bizarre to see a series I considered kind of a sleeper become one of the biggest franchises on the PlayStation.
		Ben: I think few games have caused more commotion based on less merit, but hey, that's just me. Yeah, I hated Final Fantasy VII (IV remains my fave), but I can't deny the enormous impact it made on console RPGs in general and gaming as a whole.
	archive.gamespy.com /articles/july03/25smartest/readers/index.shtml (670 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Because pieces known as stones are placed on the board and do not then move around, a common way of recording Go games is by a diagram of the board with all the stones on it and with each stone numbered by the move number at which it was played.
		There is an alternative format of record using a notation known as Smart Game Format (SGF), and programs exist to read records in this format and play through the game on the screen.
		The purpose of this project is to decode a scanned image of a game record in the first format to generate one in the second.
	www.cs.manchester.ac.uk /mscprojects/projects.99/cck.html (330 words)

	FormatString - smart string formatting - The Code Project - String
		It can be a hint that describes the meaning of the argument, or provide examples to aid the localization of the formatting string.
		Special cases like the buffer ending in the middle of a double-byte character or a in the middle of a surrogate pair are also handled.
		Since the { and } characters are used to define format items, they need to be escaped in the format string as {{ and }}.
	www.codeproject.com /useritems/FormatString.asp (2138 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mobile Go Studying Go Go games are stored in a format called SGF (Smart Game Format).
		Hikarunix has a library of nearly 7000 historical and professional games, 500 of which are reviewed and commented (courtesy of the Go Teaching Ladder).
		These games will be lost on a reboot unless you back up your home directory.
	www.hikarunix.org /study.html (217 words)

	Loads of Linux Links: Games
		A detailed RPG (role-playing game) with with hundreds of levels, randomly generated anew for each game; 200 combinations of races and classes; and more than 600 items, 400 monsters, dozens of quests.
		There are two versions of this game: batnav (includes an ncurses server and clients for ncurses, xview, win32 and gtk released in 1997) and gbatnav (includes a gnome server, client and robot with support for IPv6 and GGZ released in 2002).
		Linux Game Publishing - A Linux game company that aims to bring top quality Linux games to market by providing a reseller channel for both ports of games from other platforms and for new games.
	ladybug.vlug.org /linux/links/Games/index.html (2461 words)

	Smart aS - the educational game
		Smart aS®™ - the educational game, builds confidence in the struggling student, motivates the middle range student and challenges the gifted, through a unique game format.
		Smart aS Holdings Pty Ltd, located in Australia is an independent educational development company for the Smart aS® educational concepts.
		Smart aS®™ unique equalising ability allows a struggling child to compete competitively against a gifted student or adult and is proudly designed and developed in Australia.
	www.smartas.com (384 words)

	GNU Go Documentation: User Guide
		It may affect the score of the game by one point in even games, more if there is a handicap (since in Chinese Counting the handicap stones count for Black) or if either player passes during the game.
		Notice that if the game is not already finished it will be played out, which may take quite a long time if the game is far from complete.
		Finish the game by selfplaying until two passes, then determine the status of all stones and estimate territory using the Bouzy 5/21 algorithm (see section 14.
	gnu.miscellaneousmirror.org /software/gnugo/gnugo_3.html (3550 words)

	PilotGOne - view/record GO games (SGF format) in PalmOS® (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To transfer SGF game records from your PC to the PalmOS® device, you have first to transfer them to the Palm™ Desktop, before doing a HotSync®.
		Although SGF (Smart Game Format) is a well-defined standard, occasionally it has been interpreted slightly differently by different programmers.
		A useful list of SGF collections on Ken Warkentyne's page (when it is available) – note especially Takemiya games.
	www.goban.demon.co.uk /go/pgdraft/pgright05.html (2477 words)

	JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future for Xbox Review - Xbox JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future Review
		The game follows the same basic premise: Tokyo is being overrun by a malevolent corporation run by a nattily dressed businessman who's taken control of the police force.
		While the game's core gameplay is unchanged--you'll still get around the streets with magnetically charged skates and collect spray paint cans that you'll use to spray graffiti on your surroundings--some of the mechanics and control have been tweaked.
		Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is a very smart game with great puzzles, yet there's not enough variety in those puzzles to keep it completely entertaining throughout.
	www.gamespot.com /xbox/action/jsrfjetsetradiofuture/review.html (990 words)

	The Vaults of Parnassus: Python Resources
		A multiplayer, web-based game of space exploration and economic competition.
		This is a python implamentation of Conway's Game of Life.
		SGF (Smart Game Format) parser library, for go game records.
	www.vex.net /~x/parnassus/apyllo.py/238168060 (399 words)

	Plateau - The Ultimate Game of Strategy and Intrigue.
		The object of the game is to make a stack of pieces six tall or capture and hold six enemy pieces.
		This is a terrific strategy game that has been likened to chess and Mastermind.
		I like this game a lot; the hidden information adds greatly to the excitement and yet there's enough scope for strategy that the bluffing doesn't dominate the game.
	home.hiwaay.net /~jwalbea/plateaugame (1115 words)

	Dragon Go Server - Forum - Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		SGF files for games on DragonGoServer can be downloaded to your computer.
		SGF supports, among other things, the representation of game branches, making it great for game analysis.
		There were a couple of other games for which SGF was also defined, but Go is the only one that really took off.
	www.dragongoserver.net /phorum/read.php?f=2&t=488&a=2 (149 words)

	HilltopGo.com Go Baduk Wei'qi links
		Grow Stronger - to refine your game, you have to play (see fellowship of players) and you have to study: study life and death, study games (your own, and games of others); eventually, study joseki; and if you're serious about improving your play, then it really helps to have a go teacher.
		Learn about the Smart Game Format for computerized go game records, and check your SGF files for compliance with the official specification.
		It is also a pretty good SGF game viewer and editor (and supports game records in XML format).
	www.hilltopgo.com /aboutgo.html (3470 words)

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