The Gobán Saor was a highly skilled smith or architect in Irish history and legend. Gobban Saer (Gobban the Builder) is a figure regarded in Irish traditional lore as an architect of the seventh century, and popularly canonized as St. Gobban. The Catholic Encyclopedia considers him historical and born at Turvey, on the Donabate peninsula in North County Dublin, about 560.

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In literary references, he was employed by many Irish saints to build churches, oratories, and bell towers, and he is alluded to in an eighth-century Irish poem, preserved in a monastery in Carinthia. In the 'Life of St. Abban' it is said that 'the fame of Gobban as a builder in wood as well as stone would exist in Ireland to the end of time.'

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In Gobán Saor can be seen elements of Goibniu, the Old Irish god of smithcraft.^[1] His name can be compared with the Old Irishgobae ~ gobann ‘smith,’ Middle Welshgof ~ gofein ‘smith,’ Gallicgobedbi ‘with the smiths,’ Latinfaber ‘smith’ and with the Lithuaniangabija ‘sacred home fire’ and Lithuaniangabus ‘gifted, clever’.^[2]

The Wonder Smith and His Son is a retelling of fourteen tales about the Gobán Saor, by Ella Young; illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff (1927). It was a 1928 Newbery Honor Book. Two of Ella Young's retellings were reprinted by Collier in 'The Young Folks Shelf of Books.'

The Goban Saor is described as the son of Tuirbe Tragmar ('thrower of axes'), a figure whose magical axe would hold back the sea after it was thrown on the strand.^[3]

His supposed burial site is located next to Derrynaflan Church, County Tipperary.

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References[edit]

1. ^'Goban Saor' in 'The Oxford companion to Irish literature'
2. ^Blažek, Václav 2008, Celtic ‘smith’ and his colleagues, in Alexander Lubotsky, Jos Schaeken and Jeroen Wiedenhof (eds.) Evidence and counter-evidence: Festschrift for F. Kortlandt 1, Amsterdam–New York: Rodopi, 35-53.
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Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). 'Gobban Saer'. Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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License and Copyright

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Goban is copyrighted work: Copyright (c) 1997-2004, Sen:te (Sente SA). All rights reserved.

Goban is currently distributed free of charge. Permission must be obtained for redistribution. A different version of Goban (FreeGoban) is distributed as free software, under the GNU General Public License.

All of the art work is copyrighted and shall not be reused without explicit permission.

• The Sparrows nesting in a Go Bowl image from the About panel is (c) Copyright IGS;
• Some of the icons in the Preferences and Internet go window are (c) Copyright Apple;
• The 'RealKaya' board is (c) Copyright Tweet;
• All other art work, including boards and stones images are (c) Copyright Sen:te.

Goban includes GNU Go, which is distributed under the GNU Public license library. The source code for GNU Go is available.

For more information about this license, contact goban@sente.ch.

Feedback

For any question, suggestion, or problem report, please send an e-mail to goban@sente.ch.

Download

Goban can be downloaded from our server as a disk image (.dmg).

Additional designs for the stones are available in the package below. In order to use them, create a folder named Goban in your Library folder, create a folder named Stones in the Goban folder you just created, and copy the content of this package in Stones.

Goban includes the latest stable release of GNU Go. If you want to experiment with the latest development version, it is available below. This disk image contains a gnugo executable compiled for Mac OS X, as well as the source code. Several other Go engines, distributed by Andrew Balsa under the GPL are also available. Information on how to use these executables with Goban is available in help.

Mailing List

A mailing list for Goban users is available. New releases will be announced on this list.

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FAQ

Does or will Goban work with the Kiseido Go Server (KGS)?
KGS uses a closed protocol and wants to control both the server and client. They are actively discouraging 3rd party clients. Goban will not work with KGS as long as this is the case.

Does or will Goban run on Mac OS 9, 8, ... ?
Sorry, no. Goban is a Mac OS X only application. Go software for older Mac OS releases is listed on the Shodan web site.

Does or will Goban run on Windows?
Sorry, no. Goban is a Mac OS X only application. We currently have no plans to do a Windows version.

Does or will Goban run on Linux?
Maybe. Goban is currently a Mac OS X only application. We could port it to Linux when GNUstep is sufficiently advanced.

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How strong is the program?
GNU Go plays regularly on the NNGS and KGS go servers and its ratings graphed over time are available: NNGS [currently unavailable], KGS. Several GNU Go robots are also playing regularly on the IGS (with a rank of 12 kyu).

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

• Guy Moreillon, for his help with the design of the icons, stones, and Persistence Of Vision (Povray) programming;
• Antti Huima, for his SGF utility library;
• William Shubert, for his implementation of the Go Modem Protocol (GMP);
• Erik Doernenburg, for his Cocoa implementation of Socket classes;
• The GNU Go Team, for GNU Go, a nice and free Go playing program.
• Stephan Somogyi, for his feedback, help and encouragements.
• Tim Cartwright, for his feedback, help and encouragements.
• Tweet, for his Kaya board picture, and his permission to use the 'Sparrows nesting in a Go Bowl' image.
• Daniel Bump and Reid Augustin, for sgf2tex, a Go typesetting software.
• Gerben Wierda for his help with the integration of TeX.
• Arno Hollosi for sgfc, a SGF syntax checker and converter.
• Yamakawa Kazuki, for ugfc, an UGF to SGF converter.
• Andrew Balsa, for his GTP compatible Go engines: badukiplus, wallyplus, randyplus, amigoplus.
• Patrice Fontaine for retouching some of the alternate go stones.
• Jean-Jacques Ardoino for the French localization
• Our beta testers for their invaluable comments during the development of the Internet Go support: Tweedie, Raven H. Huang, Patrice Fontaine, Stephan Somogyi, Alan Crossman, Jim Watson, Joshua Epperson, Brian Merkey, Mark Anderson, Daniel Wilday, Peter Seal, Olivier Verdier, OGONG & AURORA, Olaf Foellinger.
• Our users, for there continuous feedback, suggestions, and encouraging remarks.

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