The SGF format is wildly successful. It is virtually the unique format
in the West, and one of the major formats in the East.
However, there is no precise definition of the format.
In particular, FF[4] is not precise and where it is precise
it is too strict to follow.
One troublesome area is that
Hi,
Hi there,
I have developed a neural network based 9x9 bot which I am trying to run on KGS
using the java kgsGtp gateway (version 3.5.20). The bot is called NubbyBot.
When playing 9x9 games everything works fine. But occasionally the system will
attempt to setup a 19x19 game with the bot. T
Thanks for documenting current usage, Andries. It helps to know which
properties are being used and how. However, your focus on games gives a skewed
picture of many properties that are crucial to SGF. Also, replacing
prescriptions with recommendations is not the right direction: If we’re trying
Character encoding (usually UTF8 these days) ought not to be part of
the standard, it ought to be up to the containing file to describe the
encoding at that level.Likewise, nothing in the standard ought to
require support for particular character sets. Rather, if a sgf record
contains an uns
