This page provides access to my material related to the East Asian board game of go.

• Gratis is a proposed system for rating go players within the Australian Go Association:
  • Documentation:
    • A requests list, explaining the ways in which I need the assistance of the go-playing community.
    • A user manual for the software.
    • The mathematical basis for those wishing to decide if my approach is valid.
    • An issues list: all the things I could think of that someone evaluating the scheme might need to know.
    • My aliases file, that relates the name used in the tournament record to the player's real name. Amongst other functions it tells the program which player names refer to same person.
    • An attendance record, which should prove useful to those helping me fix the aliases file.
    • A list of the tournaments for which I have records, if you have records for any others please send them to me.
    • More complete player records.
  • Results: These are very preliminary, so please don't get upset when they change.
    • A description of the the format of the output files.
    • Dan-ranked players who are still active in the AGA, or at least we still hope will come back:
      • Ordered by surname.
      • Ordered by estimated strength.
    • All dan-ranked players who have ever been won a game in our tournament records:
      • Ordered by surname.
      • Ordered by estimated strength.

• I also have some Microsoft Windows software related to go, not available here:
  • BakaBan is a virtual go board for peculiar board geometries, particularly those that are difficult to implement in wood. It's available from the British Go Association web page, or just mail me at David.Bofinger@dsto.defenceSpamProofing.gov.au (delete the spamproofing).
  • SGFtoHTML turns Smart Go Format (.SGF) files into HTML game records. Hopefully it will be available from somewhere soon, or just mail me at David.Bofinger@dsto.defenceSpamProofing.gov.au (delete the spamproofing).

I welcome feedback at David.Bofinger@dsto.defenceSpamProofing.gov.au (delete the spamproofing).

This page is hosted by GeoCities, in return for carrying their advertising they will give you a free home page much like mine. Everything on this site varies without notice, especially after I get feedback.