Thursday, July 13, 2006

Go

The following is from aikiweb, and seems to be worth saving on the topic of Go:

For internet play IGS is among the best:: http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/

Or you could get something like GoWrite2, and just play a good friend by emailing the board back and forth. It works great. :: http://gowrite.net/

As to AI computer-play software someone wrote that they were fond of his old "Cosmos" Go program ca. 1996: low end on graphics but very good for play. The same data engine is in the present day "Many Faces of Go", which is probably the best AI Go program out there.

See here:: http://www.smart-games.com/manyfaces.html

For a list of some available Go software with some reviews:: http://www.britgo.org/gopcres/gopcres1.html
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Go_software
And for others:
http://www.usgo.org/resources/computer.html

Old, supposedly fairly strong one: Many faces of go and a free version of it.
Go Mobile is only $15.
Yeah... there is GNU GO!
Others of interest: here and here which serves .jar's directly to the phone for places like this.

There is also http://playgo.to/interactive/

Computer-go (research) mailing list: http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
The strongest Monte Carlo based program is currently MoGo by Sylvain Gelly et al. which you can find more information about at http://www.lri.fr/~gelly/MoGo.htm