Smart Game Format

The Smart Game Format, or SGF, is a computer file format used for storing records of board games including:

• Go
• Lines of Action
• Backgammon
• Hex
• Amazons
• Octi
• Gess

Go is the game that is most commonly represented in this format.

SGF uses a tree-based representation of the game to store information; the tree structure makes the addition of variations simple. It is also text-based instead of binary for the sake of portability.

External links

• Specification of the Smart Game Format

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Compare: Portable Game Notation, a common computer format for recording games of Chess.