Smart Game Format
The Smart Game Format (SGF) is a file format used for storing records of board games. Go is the game that is most commonly represented in this format and is the default. SGF was originally created under a different name by Anders Kierulf for his SmartGO program.
| Filename extension |
.sgf |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Anders Kierulf (1987, FF1), Martin Mueller (1993, FF3), Arno Hollosi (1997, FF4) |
| Initial release | 1987 |
| Latest release | 4 1997 |
| Type of format | mark up text |
| Container for | Go (game) record |
| Open format? | yes |
| Website | red-bean |
| Part of a series on |
| Go |
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| Game specifics |
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| History and culture |
| Players and organizations |
| Computers and mathematics |
The main purposes of SGF are to store records of played games and to provide features for storing annotated and analyzed games (e.g. board markup, variations). It is a text-only, tree-based format.
Most Internet Go servers and Go software from 1990 support this format.
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