SmartGo
SmartGo is a commercial Go program for Windows. (Perhaps you were looking for info on the Smart Go Format?) SmartGo comes with over 39000 professional games and over 2000 problems. It is localized in English, Japanese, Korean, German, and Russian. A free 15-day trial is available at the SmartGo web site.
Web Site: http://www.smartgo.com
Author's comments
Anders Kierulf: A general purpose tool to enter, replay, annotate, study, organize, and print Go games. Full support for SGF, including markups, annotations, and diagrams. Extensive search capabilities. Instant joseki and fuseki analysis based on more than 39000 professional games. Instant filter by game info. IGS client. Create diagrams in PDF, EPS, as well as SL ASCII format. And much more.
We encourage you to go to http://www.smartgo.com, download the 15-day free trial, and check it out for yourself.
User comments
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:
http://www.smartgo.com/HTML/playagainstcomputer.htm). Also, there's the
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.
wad: Is there a way to plug in the GnuGo engine? And are there any plans for a Linux version?
GnuGo? Yes:
http://www.smartgo.com/en/gtp.htm Linux? Perhaps through WINE but seems to have issues:
http://support.smartgo.com/default.asp?smartgo.1.75.3