Description
Play the ancient game of Go against your iPhone or iPod touch. Starting with the empty board, your goal is to surround territory — the simple rules of Go lead to a complex and beautiful game. This 4000-year-old board game originating in China is also known as igo (囲碁), wéiqí (围棋), or baduk (바둑).
SmartGo 9x9 includes a tutorial that teaches you the fundamentals of Go step-by-step. Each rule and tactic is followed by a number of problems to let you practice and fully grasp the concept.
If you enjoy strategy board games like chess or Othello, you'll love Go.
SmartGo automatically adjusts the handicap to keep the game challenging. With a strong engine based on the latest research into Monte Carlo techniques, this is the game to beat.
Features:
- 9x9 board
- Strong game engine
- Fast response (adjustable)
- Automatic handicap adjustment
- Track level per user
- Territory estimator
- Hint
- Undo
- Replay
- Tutorial with over 100 problems
SmartGo 9x9 is ideal for learning Go. If you already know Go, please check out our other apps:
- SmartGo Books for reading books about Go, from beginner level to advanced.
- SmartGo for playing on boards up to 19x19.
- SmartGo Pro for studying Go, with thousands of professional game records and problems.
- SmartGo Kifu for studying Go on the iPad.
What's New in Version 1.2
- Info about SmartGo Books app.
- Bug fixes.
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Irritated
I was playing a close game and it was almost settled except for one two spaces that I could not take for the ko rule. So I played a ko threat elsewhere. Of course it defended the much larger area. I then took the two spaces. It passed. So I checked the score and I was up by 3 1/2 points. I thought it would be ok to not defend the two spaces since it said I had it and it passed cause the game was over. When I passed it gave the two spaces to the computer and it won by half a point. I guess I should have expected that but it's still very annoying.
Simply, amazing.
I just got this a day ago and even though I lose most of the time, it is still great. I will get better and without a second thought in my mind I will buy the 3$version. Then ill get better and buy the 12$ version. This is really fun and challenging. Every one should get this if a beginner in go. Hikaru-no-go the anime inspired me to try go. And I love it.
Average
It's not bad, but I also downloaded Pocket Go -- and it's much better.
- $0.99
- Category: Games
- Updated: Apr 26, 2011
- Version: 1.2
- Size: 3.7 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: Smart Go, Inc.
- © 2009 Smart Go, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
