Re: 9x9 go

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a little Japanese book of 9c9 pro handicap go, called Mi-Ni Go
(Mi/Ni in katakana).  It has 178 game records, played by 1 to 5 dan pro.
Black usually opens at the center, and white responds 3-4 or 3-5.  These
were mostly 5.5 point komi games.  I haven't entered the games.  But you
can probably find a copy of this book in Japan.

I also have a database of Japanese pro 9x9 games, but I haven't ever
tried to reverse engineer the format.

I downloaded about 300,000 games from IGS a couple of years ago and
separated out all the Dan level even 19x19 games to build a fuseki database.
These 40,000 games are on the Many Faces of Go CD-ROM.  But I threw away
the 9x9
games.  For training data the IGS games are probably more useful than the
pro games.  I used anonymous FTP from nuri to get them.  They weren't
always on line, but when I found them missing for several weeks I sent mail
to tweet and he put them back and told me how to find them.  They were
organized
into directories by year and month, with a new compressed tar file for
every few
days.

David

At 05:02 AM 4/21/98 +0200, Darren Cook wrote:
>I was just looking for 9x9 board training data. I managed to find a few pro
>games at:
>   ftp://imageek.york.cuny.edu/nngs/go/pro/pro9x9.sh.Z
>
>There were only 9 there, plus a couple by Go Seigen played in 1968, the
>purpose being to decide the size of komi. Both of those games are a 4pt win
>for black.
>
>A paper in the Games Programming Workshop '96 lists the results of analyzing
>150 pro 9x9 games. Are these available for download anywhere?
>
>Also, I've seen people mention the huge database of games played on igs that
>can be downloaded. Could someone tell me where these are please? I don't
>suppose anyone has already done the job of seperating out the 9x9 games?
>
>Darren
>
>PS. I just found this in a readme on igs.nuri.net:
>
>  The IGS games archives are now available by anonymous ftp at:
>
>             igs.nuri.net  or  203.255.112.3
>             ftp.nuri.net  or  203.255.112.6
>
>  * Unavailable for now.
>
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