Sensei's Library

Sensei's Library

Sensei's Library is an internet website and wiki, dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of the Wikipedia project on the internet. [citeweb|url=http://www.wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Sensei%27s_Library|title=Go Wiki Homepage|accessdate=2007-03-28] The creators of the website in October 2000, were the Go players Morten G. Pahle and Arno Hollosi. [citeweb|url=http://lnx.agi.go.it/EGD/Find_Player.php|title=European Go Database Player Directory|accessdate=2007-03-28] [See PhpWiki for more details of Arno Hollosi's work.] Arno Hollosi is notable for designing version 4 of Anders Kierulf's popular SGF file format and for his work with the Austrian Citizen Card project. [citeweb|url=http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/|title=SGF File Format FF(4) Page|accessdate=2007-03-28] [citeweb|url=http://web.petabox.bibalex.org/web/20050311140419/http://www.idcard-conf.ancitel.it/PDF/Hollosi_Austrian_Citizen_Card.pdf|title=Arno Hollosi, "Austria's Citizen Card and Beyond," Int. Conf. on Electronic Identity and Interoperability, 16th April 2004, Rome, Italy|accessdate=2008-05-04] The website is highly regarded in the Go community. [http://www.usgo.org/EJournal/archive/20051223.htm It was reviewed as "A collaborative resource written by contributors, Sensei's Library may be the most extensive go resource on the web. Articles cover a variety of topics, including possibly the best discussion of endgame theory published anywhere"] Among its contributors are some published Go authors, such as Charles Matthews and John Fairbairn. [citeweb|url=http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/go/jf.html|title=MSO article on John Fairbairn|accessdate=2007-03-28] [citeweb|url=http://senseis.xmp.net/?CharlesMatthews|title=Charles Matthews Player Page|accessdate=2007-03-28]

The website is used for a number of purposes, and contains
* Over 16000 articles. [ [http://senseis.xmp.net Statistics on home page] , as of 2008-03-01.]
* Articles on the history of Go.
* Discussion of opening fuseki.
* Discussion of basic and advanced joseki.
* Discussion of tsumego problems.
* Guides to high level and low level strategy.
* Beginner manuals.
* Articles on Rules and Rule arcana.
* Go Community information, such as tournament results and Go server FAQs. [http://senseis.xmp.net/?CGoban3 KGS go server reference document.]
* For playing Go and Go variants. [http://www.britgo.org/history/servers.html BGA review mentions Senseis Library as a Go server.]
* Help for those seeking advice on Go positions. [http://senseis.xmp.net/?BQM The Big Question Mark series is one such area.]

Notes and references

See also

* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis List of largest wikis]

External links

* [http://senseis.xmp.net/ Sensei's Library]
* [http://senseis.xmp.net/?ReferenceSection Index of major subjects]


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