Is there a way to get a huge (or a hug, I don’t mind much ) sgf collection of pro games, that I can import in an ogs collection and study (= procrastinate) at my leisure?
Free or reasonably priced, preferably not requiring to go github myself.
Go4go I found, trying to make the subscription work, any other ideas?
I saw that one, it looks like Waltheri’s, in that I can’t take the games and put them in an ogs collection (or there’s a way and I missed it).
I usually use Waltheri’s or the free go4go database for that, I wanted to make my own collection on ogs specifically (I just barely feel comfortable with ogs analysis and tools and I’m here all day).
You can download the SGF files from both Waltheri and GoKifu. However, the downside is that you have to do it one-by-one. Is it not possible to upload those SGF files to OGS? Or are you looking for some sort of bulk download?
If you have an android phone there’s an app called Go Game Records available for free on Google play store which states that it has 70,000 pro games on it. I can’t confirm that number from experience, but there’s around 90 players listed and each player has umpteen games. Apart from the first one, the players are arranged by country - Alphago, China, Korea and Japan. At random I selected Yamashita Keigo’s games and gave up counting his games after around 400 and judging from the scroll indicator I was about a third of the way down his list. The games open on a board with the usual manual controls and also an automatic play facility - around 4 secs a move with a pause option and stone moves numbered if required. There’s small banner ads which appear along the bottom if you have WiFi or data transfer on, but offline they don’t appear and they’re not obtrusive when they do. If you haven’t got an android phone it’s probably worth buying a cheapo second hand one just for this app.