- Support read game from 9 to 25 board size.
- Support multibyte character set and unicode.
- Two styles of record tree-view: Branch Mode and Link Mode. Branch Mode is traditional and useful to play back records of “Dead-Live” problems; Link Mode is more explicit and matches human perception pattern. It is recommended to play back normal records in Link Mode.
- Variations (branches) can be freely concluded on board in playback.
- Replay game can use mouse wheel to control move next or previous.
- Automatic Replay can play back a record automatically according to the replay interval time set by user.
- Move number can be set to show on all or part of the moves.
- Selecting “Find Move” in the menu, user can click on a stone that has been put (displayed) on board to fast jump to the respective node of tree-view.
- Guess Next Move: User can improve skill by guess next moves of either side or both sides.
- Explicit list of taken stones (i.e. dead stones or prisoners, in other terms).
- User can set whether to recount move number in variation, i.e. the first move of a variation will be recounted from 1.
- Move number can be shown on the respective nodes of tree-view.
- A tag will be activated and shown on board to inform user available variations related to next move; user can click on the tag to select and directly jump to the respective variation.
- Highly integrated with Database features:
- User can save a specific situation of a game as preview.
- User can directly “Goto” previous/next record.
- Support edit board from 9 to 25 size.
- Support multibyte character set and unicode.
- Support standard edit features, such as put stones, add/remove stones and marks, add/remove variations and input/edit comments and record description information.
- Support to recount move number (i.e. MN mark of SGF).
- Support to board region mark (i.e. RG mark of SGF).
- Support most of SGF marks.
- Quick Delete: In edit mode, user can quickly delete stones and marks from board by right-clicking on tem.
- User can directly copy the contents of a record in SGF format text to system clipboard, or reversely.
- Highly integrated with Database features:
- The records of a database can be edited and saved; the modification will be reflected by the database immediately.
- The record of a database can be saved to other databases.
- Print general game.
- Print game with database records.
- Game result can be judged according to either Chinese Rules or Japanese Rules.
- Diverse setting options provide counting territory feature more flexibility.
- Two advanced database view modes: Grid View and Card Preview.
- Two different database load modes: Load all records at once and Load records on demand. The latter one is specially designed for loading large database, for instance, a database that contains more than 30,000 records, and brings faster responding speed and better using experience.
- Advanced multi-group records sorting available in Grid View.
- Powerful Data Filter available in Grid View.
- The boxes (fields) of Grid View can be edited in-place; accordingly, the record information will be simultaneously updated.
- In Grid View, user can rate the records.
- User can specify grid columns to be displayed and their ranking order.
- Bat modifications can be made to the contents of grid columns.
- Advanced Duplicates Checking and Auto Clean:
- Duplicate Checking can find and sort the duplicate records out of databases.
- Auto Clean provides user differentiate and flexible options to easily cleanup duplicate records.
- Advanced Records Sort: User can set group rules to sort qualified records out of a database and transfer them to other different databases. The feature is very useful to the users who need to frequently sort databases.
- Flexible group rules setting with differentiate options.
- Group rules support to sort records to different groups; user can set specific rules for different groups.
- Opening Pattern Checking can automatically check the records of a database and classify them according to their layout styles, which are defined by user.
- Quick record search on player name: By inputting player’s name (blur inputting is supported, e.g. just input Changhao for LeeChanghao), user can sort out all the game records relevant to that player in a specific database. Furthermore, user can sort out all game records between two specific players by directly inputting their names (a blank should be input between the two names).
- Provided some segment of a passage, Find Records By Text can sort out in a database all qualified records that contain similar segment.
- Rebuild ID can change current ranking of a database and rebuild record ID.
- A friendly wizard available for user to import/export records.
- User can Copy/Paste records in database, so that it will be easy to exchange data among databases.
- The records in StoneBase database can be opened by external editors; database will detect the modifications and update original record information.
- Database Optimize can fix potential errors of database files and restore abundant disk space.
- Advanced Database Panel:
- Infinite-level directories.
- A sub-view of database can be set to indicate only the qualified part of the data in the database.
- User can drag & drop nodes to move them in tree-view.
- User can input text in “Keywords” box (upper right in main interface) to locate the access nodes to the databases that contain similar text.
- Easy approach of interaction with Basket Panel.
- Detailed time tag classifies the files in recycle bin according to the date they are deleted and makes it easy to find them.
- Flexible Restoration: User can select the files to be restored.
- The number of deleted records will be explicitly shown in the menu.
- Comment can be saved in every bookmark.
- Bookmark can remember current move number and variation of a record and resume to play back when the record is opened again.
- User can easily drag a node from the tree-view in playback interface and directly drop it into Bookmark Panel to create a bookmark.
- A list of selected database is provided.
- Basket Panel needs to be used with other features, such as Pattern Querying, Player Quick Search, Database Optimize, etc.
- All patterns can be put on board freely.
- Selecting “Select Range”, user can box a certain part of a pattern in playback interface to be the “keyword” for querying.
- Patterns can be matched in all directions.
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- English
- Japanese
- StoneBase supports diverse popular formats of game record:
- SGF
- GIB (Tygem record file)
- NGF (Sina/Japanese Go Institution record file)
- GOS (OurGames record file)
- BDS (Old eWeiqi record file)
- Diverse options to display board:
- In-bed stone styles.
- Customizable stone style.
- Customizable board background.
- Customizable colors of board lines and marks.
- Customizable shadow effect of stones.
- Customizable brightness of board background.
- Customizable sound effect of putting stones.
- Board can be displayed in Color Mode or in Black/White Mode.
- Board can be rotated.
- Other customizable details.
- Customizable title of tab page: User can set patterns to title the tab page to display specific text.
- Fully customizable shortcuts (hotkeys).
- File association can be set to open respective format files directly.
- Detailed information displayed in status bar.
- User can open supported files in OS interface by dragging and dropping the file either onto StoneBase icon or into StoneBase window.
- User can save board as picture in differentiate image file formats.
- Other diverse customizable datails.