Aya

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Aya is a freeware 19x19 Go playing program, strong enough for a beginner (it's about 12 Japanese kyu according to its author) and with the basic necessary features (.sgf files saving and reading, black and white marks on the goban to verify score and see territories, etc...).

The author, Hiroshi Yamashita, is also working on a Monte Carlo version of his program. This experimental version plays on KGS as AyaMC. It is about 4 stones stronger than classical Aya.

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My first opponent of go was Aya. I don't know if the program has been updated since then (spring 2001), but I remember that Aya would always play its first moves at sansan, even when playing White in handicap games. This is, obviously, its major drawback. Aya sucked at fuseki, and so did I. --Simen


I first downloaded Aya 5.30 almost a year ago when I first started getting into playing go. I used to think that it was so hard. However, the last time I played it was end of this past January (I had been playing for exactly one year), gave it a three stone handicap and won by 23.5 moku. What a difference. --MrShin


Tas: Aya plays as 8k on KGS now. To me it seems weaker. I have trouble claiming 5k against other humans, but I have beaten ayabot at 5 stones several times and not lost one, which should make me at least 2k or aya 11k or less.


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