Replay a random professional Go game
I added a (small) new feature on 361points.com: the possibility to replay a random professional Go game. While I like the idea of randomness, I am not so sure this is tremendously useful, after all there are many other ways to replay random pro games - honestly I did it more as a programming exercise.
The actual pool of game records is composed of relative recent games (year 2000 and newer) that are freely available on the internet - mostly from the great Go Topics website.
This feature is hosted on the main entry page for two reasons:
1. I don’t know where else to put it 
2. For people new to Go that come to my site, it would be nice to actually see at a glance what a game looks like.
Let me know what you think.
August 26th, 2007 at 2:28 am
This is pretty neat
You’re too humble. I tried to do random tsumego on my blog and failed miserably ^^
Very cool feature
August 29th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I think its a great idea.I wish my computer skill would allow me to do something so cool ^^
August 29th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Glad you guys like it!
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm
it’s very good! yes, and although this sort of thing is not meant to be a “main tool of study”, it’s quite useful in other ways — introducing newcomers, as you’ve just said, and also, to give a convenient opportunity for people to see other games, not just their fav’s….
Actually, it’s been a while since i looked at a pro game, but i did replay one immediatly, as i saw this feature
Thanks for the JAVA coding!
September 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Thanks for the nice words, Nyiti!
But since I don’t like to take credit for other people’s work: the actual Java applet that displays a game is ZGo, freely available at this page: http://www.geocities.com/dcioata/ (the author is, incidentally, a friend of mine: Daniel Cioata).
My work was not about Java coding, but about some programming on the webserver side to feed random games into ZGo.
February 24th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
To me it is necessary to find