- Sensei's Library
Sensei's Library is an internet
website andwiki , dedicated to articles about, and discussion of, the game of Go. It is one of the largest and most active wikis outside of theWikipedia 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] [SeePhpWiki 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 andJohn 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 openingfuseki .
* Discussion of basic and advancedjoseki .
* Discussion oftsumego 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 andGo 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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