Kombilo’s Review

Written by alejo on April 10th, 2007

According to the result of the last poll: "Which program you’d like to be reviewed?", I’ve made the videoreview of Kombilo. As some of you already know, Kombilo is a pattern search engine, i.e. you enter a specific position on a board, and the program looks for this specific position in its game database.

There are still a few things hanging in my mind, so I think I’ll make another videoreview about this program, but about a specific section: how to make custom menus.

Here you have the video for direct download, with a much better resolution and quality: Kombilo’s.

This review has been made with a sample collection of 998 games, so as to offer some proper results without overloading the computer.

One thing I’ll say once again: the quality of this program is directly proportional with the quality of your game collection. If you have very little amount of professional games, you’ll get very little results. If you have a huge collection based on low-level amateur players, the results won’t be of good quality. Now, it’s up to you to decide which games you include and which ones you don’t.

I hope you enjoy it, and let me know your opinion!!

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7 Comments to “Kombilo’s Review”

1. Posted by ed, April 12th, 2007 at 8:44 am

Hi Alejo,

Nice review. I think most useful to lazy ones :)

May I ask which program are you using for creating diagrams?

2. Posted by Alejo, April 12th, 2007 at 9:15 am

Thanks ;)

Kombilo is famous enough for all of us to have tried it. Other programs reviewed are less known, like Sun Xi, though it’s not a real go studying tool.

For the diagrams I use Drago. And the results are quite good. As you saw two posts ago, full board images occupy less than 20 Kb with the lowest graphics. I made some better quality pictures on February with the same program:
http://www.alejostenuki.com/archives/2007/02.html

The problem of Blogger is that they don’t accept PNG files (the ones I use here) and transform it into jpg, 10 times more heavy. So that is one of the reasons why I moved from blogger…

3. Posted by Ulrich Goertz, June 28th, 2007 at 8:18 pm

Hi, this is just to say that I like the review very much. Thanks for making it available!

4. Posted by CarlJung, May 23rd, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Does the download link work?

I get a 2.8Mb file that can’t be played.

5. Posted by Alejo, May 24th, 2009 at 6:20 am

There was a problem the last time I moved my blog.
I’ve fixed some of the download links, they should be working by now.

6. Posted by CarlJung, May 24th, 2009 at 10:37 am

Thanks.
I also saw that you have a HD version on youtube as well.

7. Posted by Alejo, May 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am

Well… They’ve autoimplemented the HQ video.
When I uploaded the original video it was resized to a worse resolution.
When they allowed HQ videos they automatically made available my original video…

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