el-go

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                            el-go

Description A board-based interface to the game of GO which may be connected to a number of GO back-ends through a generic API. Back-ends include the Smart Game Format [1] (SGF), the Go Text Protocol [2] (GTP) which may be used to play against gnugo, and the Internet Go Server [3] (IGS) protocol (in progress).

[1]  http://senseis.xmp.net/?SmartGameFormat
[2]  http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/
[3]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGS_Go_server

Usage 1. Load this library with (require 'go). 2. Play Go with M-x go-play 3. View an SGF file of a saved game. with M-x go-view-sgf. 4. Connect to the internet go server. Currently this only supports browsing and observing games with M-x igs-get-games.