how to open .sh files in Windows 7?

[handa711]

It's from here.
ftp://ftp.joyjoy.net/go/games/

Ooh, thanks for this link. That's a very clever, and very old, archive method.

I read the readme on that server and it looks like these files are the "Go on go" book, in split-file format. You can download it as a book (legally, this is not an illegal copy of something as far as I know) from here: http://www.5z.com/tucsongo/book/

Don’t know whether I have missed something, but if it’s Go Seigen’s book “Go on Go: The Analyzed Games of Go Seigen” that anybody of you would want to have you can find it here for free: http://www.usgo.org/files/pdf/go-seigen-book.pdf

Patrick Bridges' site has a more modern zip and tar archives of the same original source files.

But the games are very old MTG format. They are very close to SGF format, but not exact.

There are several programs that will convert them. I used GOWrite on the Mac to open and re-save as SGF files. Its quite helpful to have the commented files with proper variation trees to go along with reading the book. (Several years ago, I tried unsuccessfully to convert them by hand, but kept getting hung up on the proper order of the AE property)

Its too bad his first version of the book isn't easily available as a PDF, because the other one is -- how can I say this nicely -- crap. Some of its diagrams are missing moves and stones, etc. But it may be because the tools he used expected SGF files, when what he had were MTG files (again, close, but no cigar).

His first version, which he only provides postscript and no PDF, is much, much better (but not completely error free either). Unfortunately, he's right, that the resulting PDF is over 10 times larger.

Both cases, very brilliant, and much appreciated work. Kudos to Patrick for his efforts here.

Of course, these days, an 18meg file is nothing.

I tried to make the other PDF file available on the USGO site, but with the reorg, and losing my access, that effort appears to have been lost.

The Analyzed Games of Go Seigen
commented games (SGF)
PDF book (first version)

I can't thank you enough. This is awesome.

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What does the result "W+J" means?

The count on the board is Jigo (tie), but looks like they gave the win to white. Don't know why. That's a job for historians.