Re: [gnugo-devel] (no subject)

[aquarius]

Am Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:53:25 -0500 schrieb gillenwaters <address@hidden>:

> I haven’t played GO in about 23 years and I would like to find a “complete”
> program that would let me “get back into it” before I tackle the GO rooms on
> the Web.
>
> What would you suggest?

Hi,

You are a bit unclear about what you are looking for ...

e.g. - what is the desired operating system?
     - are you willing to spend money? (in order to get a even more “complete”
       program with a GO tutorial, yoseki database or other features)
     - is open-source / GPL a criterion?

In case you want to try Gnu Go I suggest reading the post at:

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2003-12/msg00023.html

and follow-ups. Most Information given there applies to Windows, Mac etc. as 
well.

For short: To make Gnu Go “complete” simply combine it with a
           graphical front-end that fits your taste and platform.

Depending on your platform you could also try out several shareware or 
commercial
programs if they offer a $$-free testing period that suffices to “get you back 
into
it” and that are not limited to 9x9 Go while testing. One of those would be:

http://www.turbogo.com

(weaker than Gnu Go, even weaker in the 30 days testing time, but it comes
 with a joseki tutor and no other severe restrictions while testing. It's
 Windows only but it should run fine in Wine/Bochs/VMware/Virtual PC etc.)

more programs can be found here: http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/gopcres1.html

here: http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/playit.html

and here: http://www.usgo.org/resources/computer.asp

Another approach would be to join a Go room and play some "robots" first ;-)

Gnu Go runs (at least) on the Go servers nngs, kgs, igs ...
there may be other "bots" as well but sometimes they are hard to spot ;-)

If you need more help running Gnu Go, please feel free to ask again.

happy go - ing,

aquarius

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