About

This is an online board which allows shared control across all participants. Create a board, share the link with your friends. Experiment with variations. In theory, you could even play informal games.

How to Use

Enter a name for your new board (or leave it blank and the server will generate an id for you), and click "New Board." This will generate a new URL that you can then share with other participants.
After 24 hours of no activity, boards will be automatically cleared.

Tools

Place stones, toggle between black and white. Shift+click on an intersection will jump to when a stone was played on that intersection. (Keyboard shortcut: 1)

Place black stones. Can be used to remove existing stones. Shift+click places white stone. (Keyboard shortcut: 2)

Place white stones. Can be used to remove existing stones. Shift+click places black stone. (Keyboard shortcut: 3)

Pass. (Keyboard shortcut: 4)

Place triangles. (Keyboard shortcut: 5)

Place squares. (Keyboard shortcut: 6)

Place letters. Shift+click allows custom labels. (Keyboard shortcut: 7)

Place numbers. (Keyboard shortcut: 8)

Select pen color for drawing.

Draw with a pen (Keyboard shortcut: 9)

Erase pen marks (Keyboard shortcut: 0)

Delete the current branch. Branch is copied to the clipboard. (Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+X/Cmd+X)

Copy the current branch to the clipboard. (Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+C/Cmd+C)

Paste the branch from the clipboard to the game tree. (Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+V/Cmd+V)

Score the board state. Mark dame or dead groups. (Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Enter/Cmd+Enter)

Reset the entire board.

Upload SGFs:

• Upload from the device. Upload multiple files at a time, or even zip files.
• Paste an SGF
• Paste a URL to an sgf
• Paste the URL of a live OGS game

Download SGFS:

• Download to the device
• Get a link to the raw SGF

Show game information.

Toggle comments.

Show connected users.

Show settings:

• Set nickname
• Set black player
• Set white player
• Set komi
• Set board size
• Toggle darkmode
• Add password

Arrow Keys

The left and right arrow keys move left and right in the game tree. The up and down arrow keys move up and down branches (a la OGS), while shift+up and shift+down modify which branch to follow (a la KGS). This functionality can be switched in the settings by clicking on the button.

Input Buffer

With no other controls in place, users will quickly start "interrupting" each other when putting stones on the board at the same time. So, each room has a slider for what we call "Input Buffer". After a user changes the board in some way, the server will ignore everyone else for a given period of time (default: 250ms). This can be adjusted in the settings.

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