Hi,

when I want to make all kinds of stupid mistakes playing out exercises, I first used a real board (cardboard).

Then I used an SGF editor (qGo).

I try different variations, but the editors I have do not allow for forking.

I like eidogo a lot, but the board is rather tiny, and it would be great to have an offline version for this.

So...
is there a "bigger" version of eidogo (yes, I can zoom the browser, but it looks funny soon)?
is there a stand-alone / offline program you use for this purpose?

Thanks!

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I use Sabaki.

I like this chrome extensions, it can open sgf directly in your browser from website downloads, load from disk, export ascii diagrams and screenshots...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ieajggfbmd

The actual old qGo from 2009 or so? You might want to check out my improved variant of that: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=16354
What do you mean by forking?

I use Ilya Kirillov’s awesome “Web Go Board” Chrome plugin, it’s a full-fledged SGF editor in a browser window, all done in HTML5.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... ieajggfbmd

It can load SGF from URL or disk (for the latter to work go to chrome://extensions and turn on "Allow access to file URLs" for this extension), or take it from clipboard; edit with all commonly used symbols; export as animated GIF; and it gets as big as the window can get on your monitor.

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Aargh, Uberdude beat me to it already …
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Ilya Kirillov is L19 user KOCMOHABT, and he introduced the plugin on L19 here: https://lifein19x19.com/viewtopic.php?f ... &start=120
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Thank you all!

I've tried Sabaki today, and it looks good, but when I saved an edited SGF there, the forum [sgf] or [go] tags did not work on it.
Probably my fault, will revisit the "How to post SGF"-sticky.

For my plan to create a tree view of variants, Sabaki is fine (Sorry, bernds, I have never compiled source code, so can't use yours!).

The browser plugins are helpful to play out exercises from books, but another problem is that if I have an exercise in a browser tab, and the hiddema diagrammer or an sgf editor in another tab, I can't see them at the same time, so creating the start diagram is difficult.

I was hoping I can resize both the browser and the editor so they fit next to each other (using multiple browsers would be a solution, but a bit messy).

I hope I'll learn to get the Sabaki sgf files onto the forum, then it would be the solution.

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I'm a complete beginner. Please be patient if my questions are stupid.
Please also keep in mind that I'm not a native speaker of English: I might seem impolite or unclear without intending to. Thanks for all help, it is much needed and much appreciated!