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Igowin
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Igowin is a 9x9 demo version of The Many Faces of Go. It's considered to be a nice, fairly easy introduction to Go.
You can get it at David Fotland's page: Note that the difficulty levels indicated by Igowin is seriously overrated, so take them with a grain of salt. See also:
Difficulty (no komi)Rank Handicap Igowin's colour --------------------------------------- 25k-23k 5 White 22k-20k 4 White 19k-17k 3 White 16k-13k 2 White 12k-9k 0 White 8k-5k 0 Black 4k-1k 2 Black 1d-3d 3 Black 4d-6d 4 Black Professional 5 Black Jasonred: A pretty unique thing about Igowin, IMHO, is its speed, responding to moves as soon as you place them. This is good and bad, in that it makes practice smooth and quick, no waiting for your opponent. On the other hand, this teaches some bad habits, like playing too quickly (in response to Igowin), thinking during your own hand, instead of while the opponent is thinking, and such. All in all though, I prefer Igowin, as it annoys me no end when a program takes like 2 minutes to block my peep during the endgame... JanDeWit: It has the standard Way to Go tutorial, it plays only on 9x9 and you can only crank up the difficulty by getting better yourself (after studying a little bit I rocketed up from around 23kyu with 4/5 handicap to 12 kyu with no handicap, so I guess I'm getting better). I actually like the fact that you can't undo moves, as this forces you to think and not just click somewhere in the hope that your move works out OK. Too bad I don't have the cash to buy the full version (yet?). I think this program is nice for beginners to practice their tactical skills. Sometimes, Igowin cannot properly count territory
The marked points are considered dame by Igowin during the counting. Igowin also doesn't recognise seki. Dead or Alive?
It thinks the marked black group is dead (white's turn). What do you think
gtwade: Black is alive?
If I'm reading this right, after 1 and 2, white cannot play in this corner, and black at x will take white's two stones and seal up the eyes. There are other variations, but it looks like black is alive in this corner!
Igowin was my introduction to go. I still fire it up often, even though TurboGo offers games on other boards. It's an incredible program, despite its bugs. It's very aestetically pleasing, too :) This is a copy of the living page "Igowin" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |