# This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then unpack
# it by saving it into a file and typing "sh file". To overwrite existing
# files, type "sh file -c". You can also feed this as standard input via
# unshar, or by typing "sh <file", e.g.. If this archive is complete, you
# will see the following message at the end:
# "End of shell archive."
# Contents: README game1 game2 game3 game4 game5 game6 game7 game8
# story.fujisawa story.hashimoto story.kitani story.sakata
# story.sakata.a story.sakata.b story.sakata.c story.sakata.d
# story.strongest story.takagawa story.takagawa.a story.wu.biog
# story.wu.idol
# Wrapped by jyu@asgard on Mon Sep 27 18:15:31 1993

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

I have no idea what to do now. Can I convert it to something?.

I added an edit with some more information. It's literally a program containing all the text of the games etc., and all the program does is write that text to some files. However, because of this unusual 'archive' format, it isn't something you can easily convert to a different type, or extract with a normal windows tool.

Actually, I think the script is so simple that you could just open it with notepad (or a non-rubbish editor if you have one) and copy the sgfs wherever you like. Alternatively you could in principle install bash as I mentioned above, but that really is an in principle rather than something you probably want to bother doing.

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/

http://gokifu.com/playerother/Go+Seigen

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

Greetings, Tom

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

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

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



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)

What does the result "W+J" means?