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aquarius |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] (no subject) |
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Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:21:02 +0100 |
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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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