GoGoD Summer update

[TMark]

The Summer 2011 edition of the GoGoD database and encyclopaedia on CD is
about to hit the streets. Subscribers first, then players at the US
Congress will be able to get copies from T Mark, who will be at Santa
Barbara for the whole event. John F also plans to look in for a day
between trying to find batting cages.

It has been exactly ten years since GoGoD began putting its database on
CD. Of course, we began collecting games well before that and still have
the floppies to prove it!

When you reach a landmark like that, you tend to look back at the
highlights. There were plenty - often centring round getting hold of a
player's collected games and then finding games that weren't in there. In
that regard, there is one constant light that stays shining like a beacon
for us, and that's finding Go Seigen games. We began with him and have,
over the years, added something like forty games not in the printed
corpus. Oddly enough, this edition features yet another new game by Go -
the beacon stays alight! And for a change it's not a handicap game but an
even game against Cho Chikun.

In fact the crop of new games for various top players has been unusually
large this year: we have new games for Kitani Minoru, Takagawa Kaku,
Hashimoto Utaro and Sakata Eio (quite a few in some cases). We have also
(with much eye-rubbing) found Honinbo Jowa's earliest known game, likewise
missing from our printed collections. Although the database count refers
only to 19x19 games, we do provide games at other sizes, and these now
include a previously missing 21x21 pro game.

Readers of the Slate & Shell series of books "From the GoGoD Archives"
will be aware that we have covered the early 20th century go world in some
depth. Additions to the latest CD include a swathe of New Fuseki games
from Autumn 1933, a key period in this movement, and these will illuminate
the period especially for those who have our latest book: Old Fuseki vs.
New Fuseki. Another sidelight on that period is provided by the very large
number of games by Segoe Kensaku just added.

Of course, routine games have not been neglected. The latest games are
there en masse and Fujisawa Hideyuki has now become a milligod (i.e. we
have at least 1,000 of his games).

The overall total of 19x19 games in the database is now 68,127. All these
plus the vast amount of data in the encyclopaedia can be yours for just
$30 (single copy) or $40 (this copy plus one update in a year’s time).
As usual, files are unencrypted with minimal installation needed and Mac/Linux users can
access everything except a tiny handful of Windows applications.

Just follow the signature link for more info; I'll get the page updated as soon as I finish posting out the disks. Best wishes.

[willemien]

Just received the new disk

With the special buble wrap inlay (small bubles this time)and a letter from TMark.

but somehow the inside of the enveloppe smellt horrible (and the protecting box was a bid damaged)

still the best go treat for this month and it is only the 5th


bowing low to Tmark and John

[Hushfield]

Just received my copy of GoGoD. Now that was fast. The time it took for the disc to reach my mailbox from TMark's London address was literally half the time it took for money to be transfered from my bank account to my paypal account. I've warned my flatmate to expect many ooh's and aah's from me in the coming week, as I dig my way through this treasure trove.

[daniel_the_smith]

I'll get a copy from you at congress. ^^