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Tools for Demos, Teaching, and Review

KGS has several tools that can be quite helpful during demos or reviews.

Teaching Tools Menu

To display options/ instructions for some tool, hover the cursor over the tool.

To use a tool, click a tool to select it, then click on the board to:

Play moves normally (black + white)
Add or remove stones. (Click = add black stones only ; Shift+click = add white stones only)
Score game after clicking to remove dead stones
Mark stones or spaces with triangles
Mark stones or spaces with squares
Mark stones or spaces with circles
Mark stones or spaces with letters A,B,C etc. By pressing shift and clicking, you can write up to 3 letters on a stone.
Number spaces or stones, manually
Number stones automatically (kifu)
Edit game tree to label variations
Take control of the display, after giving display control to someone else to show variations or positions (right-click their name, to give control) CTRL-T also takes control of the game for the owner.
Give control to the person named. CTRL-G can switch control to an opponent in a teaching game.
Set names of b and w players ; (can be used to reverse colors, or to have one or two players continue from some position)
Set "moderated chat" on/off ; [Normal accounts: only comments by the teacher and the student will appear (no comments by observers). For teaching accounts only: the teacher also can select observers' comments to show to all viewers.]

Tools for Demos, Teaching, and Review

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