iPhone

Apple's iPhone is perhaps not the ideal platform for playing on with its small screen but its ubiquity and its touch screen ensure there is plenty of interest in internet clients, AI based games and its use as a study tool.

Table of contents The App Store Free applications Commercial applications Web Applications Playing on IGS or KGS Playing on IGS or KGS natively on the iPhone Playing on KGS (or IGS) indirectly on the iPhone Wallpaper Reviews unsorted

The App Store

There is a growing number of go applications available from the App Store. You can't notice every new go app release and it is possible that some go apps are not available in your country. Therefore it isn't possible to list them all on this page, but here are some of them.

Free applications

• Tetsuki: An IGS client and game recording app that allows email sending of games.( Web Site / iTunes)

• GNU Go: An open source program to play against the classic GNU Go engine. Feel free to help for futher development.( Web Site / iTunes)

• CleverGo-FREE?: Play Go on the way! Carry professional Go game in your iPhone, and take advantage of your spare minutes or hours to study Go. There is also a -FULL commercional app( Web Site /)

• Stones: seems to be available no more. A go board to play against a friend sitting next to you.( Web Site / iTunes)

• TRUE.Baduk Lite: A go board to play against a friend sitting next to you.( iTunes)

Commercial applications

• Igowin: A new Igowin implementation that uses the full strength of the Many Faces of Go engine. Plays even games from 22 kyu to 2 dan. Tracks your rating. Adjusts rapidly to you rating when you start playing. 9x9 only. 2.39€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• IT IGO?: The program has been based on computer Go won consecutive world championships, has achieved a balance of strength and speed. In addition, iPhone will be in 19 normal route, but I also hit a rock hard, this software is to expand the board with one tap of the second time, beating on the screen to expand its打Temasu easier. In addition, graphics and beautiful, such as during a game and turn off the menu display, and also paid attention to the beauty of appearance. ( WebSite)2,39€

• SmartGo Pro?: A complete study application with 15 000+ pro-games and game recording app that allows email sending of games and importing your own games. Included are 2000+ problems. 10,49€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• SmartGo: A program to play against the computer or a friend. Based on Monte Carlo engine. Changes handicap to keep game challenging. Tracks progress per user on 9x9, 11x11, and 13x13. Allows play on 19x19. 2,39€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• SmartGo 9x9?: Like SmartGo, but limited to a 9x9 board. Ideal for beginners to learn the game thanks to step-by-step tutorial with over 100 problems. 0,79€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• Aya Go?: A program to play against the computer or a friend. Based on international Gold-Medalist Go Engine made by Hiroshi Yamashita. 7,99€. ( iTunes)

• Go Player?: A collection of 1000+ pro games. 2,99€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• igo: A program to play against the computer or a friend. (Strength ?). 2,39€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• 围棋死活题 : A program to manage collections of Go problems, in Chinese. It is not clear whether which collections, if any, is included. 0,79€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• GO! (wéiqí): A program to play against the computer or a friend. (Strength ?). Currently 1,59€ / was free : price is changing twice a month. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• Go Touch?: A program to play against the computer or a friend. (Strength ?). Based on weak, but fast responsive engine. 0,79€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• iBaduk: A go board to play against a friend sitting next to you. 0,79€. ( Web Site / iTunes)

• TRUE.Baduk: A program to play against the computer or a friend. (Strength ?). 2,39€. ( iTunes)

Web Applications

Rather than produce special programs, a number of websites have been created for the iPhone. Examples are a version of Kogo at http://eidogo.com/, and the go playing client iShudan at http://code.google.com/p/ishudan/.

Playing on IGS or KGS

Playing on IGS or KGS natively on the iPhone

For IGS you can use Tetsuki. This app supports watching and playing on all common board sizes.

KGS is an unlikely option since William Shubert has generally discouraged clients other than cGoban.

The author of SmartGo has explained on a godiscussions forum that the first version of SmartGo for iPhone does not include an IGS client. More than a year later, there is still no plan for an IGS client in SmartGo for iPhone. Maybe Tetsuki made the author of SmartGo refrain from including an IGS client.

Playing on KGS (or IGS) indirectly on the iPhone

It is possible to play on KGS without any problems over VNC through your home machine. This is accomplished by connecting with one of the VNC clients available on App Store. My config is for example:

• TightVNC (Open Source and Free Software) on my OpenBSD-server. Could as well be running on any normal Windows PC connected to the Internet with the VNC port open/port forwarding enabled in your firewall. (More info on http://www.portforward.com/.)
• Jaadu on the iPhone.

This way you also get disconnect redundancy since even if your iPhone get temporarily disconnected, you can still just reconnect and cGoban will have continued running as if you had just walked away from the keyboard.

Performance and response over 3G/Wi-Fi is perfect and snappy, but of course depends on your home connection. When running over EDGE it's not equally quick, but still perfectly playable.

Wallpaper

Reviews

Article on Macworld, http://www.macworld.com/article/139725/2009/03/go.html

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From a discussion attached to this page:

Found this on the store, a collection of life and death problems. I don't feel comfortable adding to the wiki, as I don't read Chinese characters well enough to know exactly what this program *does*, but perhaps someone more talented than me could link through?

ext? http://www.cliffliu.com/iPhone/iGo.html

This is a different piece of software that the iGo already listed.

from a post in rgg Here are some Go Apps compatible with iPod touch and iPhone. I stopped at page 94. There is 131 pages of games to browse. Now some of these apps are free, some aren't. Enjoy.

• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/five-stones-gomoku/id343295091?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id342851308?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id341684579?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-timer/id335976154?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id335498332?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartgo-9x9/id332157192?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/igowin-joseki/id332467386?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/igowin-tutor/id331538702?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/igowin/id330929178?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/igomoku-pro/id330204388?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/im-gomoku/id323455279?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/niren-go/id325325120?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goban/id324517313?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weigo/id323495993?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/it-igo/id321479037?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/joseki/id320600958?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aya-go-lite/id318804832?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-red/id318549199?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gobang-master-free/id315221582?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smartgo/id314506629?mt=8
• http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id311468215?mt=8