· 9x9 board, against GNU Go at two strengths or two players on one phone
· Handicap, 2 to 5 stones
· A hint, if you want one — it shows the engine’s move as a preview you can take or ignore
· Tap once to place a stone, tap again to confirm
· Take back a move, and the computer’s reply with it
· Two passes end the game and it gets counted, with dead stones marked
· It remembers the game you were in the middle of if you turn the phone off
· No permissions and no network
GPLv3, since GNU Go is bundled. Its source is in the repo along with the script that builds it.
Review for version 1.1.0
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review
Thank you! Fixed in 1.1.1: once a game is over there is nothing left to resign from, so the menu button now hands back the result and its two choices instead of a menu with a dead button in it.
And thank you for 81 Little Lions. I hadn’t seen it. It is now in the app’s About dialog and the README.
I suspect this is not an easy lift, it would be incredible to have a small collection of tsumego. I know many apps like this have json for each problem. It seems like a lot of apps incorporate some limited “AI” to make these tsmego interactive, but I feel like simply having the ability to place black and white pieces yourself is perfectly adequate for study – I assume this is what people did for the last 1000 years or so?
Maybe Cho Chikun’s is a great place since it is so well documented and great for extremely novice players like myself. In any case, this is probably a 2.0 feature. Thanks for reading and maintaining the app. I haven’t tried GO since I was a teenager installing Ubuntu on my xbox in the 00’s.
Review for version 1.1.4
Author’s rating: ★★★★★ · Author of this review
I updated the app so that on the setup screen, a player can “Set Up” the board that way they want it BEFORE playing the game starts–that way the player can study specific scenarios and historical games like you suggested. Alternatively, the player can still start a fresh game by simply pressing “Play” as before. I don’t think I’ll add an index of those games (yet), so for now you’ll have to supplement with your own outside resources.
I like this suggestion a lot, thanks for making it!
