SmartGo

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SmartGo is a commercial Go program for Windows available at [ext] http://www.smartgo.com. It comes in four flavors:

  • SmartGo:Editor is a powerful SGF editor.
  • SmartGo:Player adds computer play and tactical analysis capabilities. It includes the life and death engine of GoTools.
  • SmartGo:Viewer is a free version with all the features of SmartGo:Editor except Save, Print, and Export.
  • SmartGo:9x9 is a free version of SmartGo:Player.

AndersKierulf: A general purpose tool to enter, replay, annotate, analyze, and study Go games. Full support for SGF, including markups, annotations, and diagrams. Extensive search capabilities.

kungfu: It stikes me that some people may actually be looking for information on .SGF files and run into this page (it happened to me). Those people should go to the smart go format page here at Smart Go Format.

Bette: I have the 9x9 version, and it shows the computer's read ahead. Is there any way to keep it from doing that?

AshleyF: You can turn that off on the View toolbar (see the "Computer lookahead:" section of the help page: [ext] http://www.smartgo.com/HTML/playagainstcomputer.htm). Also, there's the [ext] Lookahead toolbar on which you'll see the think time, positions evaluated, search depth, etc. but I assume what you're talking about the little stones that show up during reading, eh? Hope that helps!

Luiz Borges: I'm a beginner player (real beginner, 1 month of play maybe around 20k) and I tried out SmartGo:9x9, on the first game I won by 3.5 points under chinese rules, and 5.5 points under japanese rules. With no handicap, komi 5.5. I guess it's no so strong afterall, actually I guess its very weak. With Igowin I stay around 16-18k.

tderz Luiz, compared with average human club players the computer programs are indeed weak.
Try 19x19! On 9x9 the strength indication is anyway only a rough guess depending fewer moves.


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