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Go Professional II
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Go Professional II is a commercial Go playing program sold by Oxford Softworks. It's been superseded (spelling?) by Go Professional III?.

Jan: I don't know about version three[1], but version two is (in my not so humble, 15k opinion) quite horrible. 'Computer level 1' plays only slightly worse than 'Computer level 9' and a lot quicker to boot. Only boring moves, no joseki, no problems, no hints with explanations, no nothing :-(. The graphics are nice, though.


[1]: I've heard Go Professional version 3 is quite strong, does anyone know more?

GoranSiska Isn't Go Professional a commercial version of Reiss's Go++? I used to beta test the program but haven't received any new versions for quite a while.

Jan: According to [ext] http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/playit.html#gop2, it's indeed a published version of Go4++ by Michael Reiss. The [ext] review there is quite favorable; maybe it's just that the program's easy-going style doesn't work well against me. Your mileage may vary...

GoranSiska Well all computer programs seem easy-going to me :). Go4++ looked quite strong for a program at the time and it's stats in the computer tournaments is very good. I haven't played against Go professional though. The Go4++ betas we used to receive were the latest version of the program and I'm not sure which versions made it to the final product.



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