Re: [computer-go] Storing positions

[Evan Daniel <evanbd@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's Nici Schraudolph's One-Line Format for storing games, which
looks a lot like what you want.  It's not particularly standard, but
it's simple enough that maybe is should be.

I don't see a page specific to it, but
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/go/
has a collection at the bottom of scored 9x9 games.
Their spec is here:
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/go/recorded/olf-format.txt

It took me all of half an hour to implement for purposes of reading
their game collection.

Evan Daniel

On 6/7/05, Peter McKenzie <peter_mckenzie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a standard format for storing Go positions in a compact way that is
> easy for both humans and programs to parse?
> 
> In chess there is something called FEN which does this.  Here is the basic
> FEN for the starting position (I've left out a couple of details for total
> simplicity) in chess:
> 
> rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w
> 
> The board is read left to right, top to bottom.
> Each '/' signifies a new rank (it is redundant but makes it easy to read),
> and a numerical digit signifies that number of empty squares.
> 
> >From the little that I've looked at SGF it seems rather complex for simply
> storing a position.
> 
> cheers,
> Peter
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