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Software Review
BGJ 132 Autumn 2003
Reviewer: Nick Wedd
Previous issues of this Journal have carried reviews of Go Professional, Go Professional II, and Go Professional III. These programs used the Go-playing engine written by Dr. Michael Reiss, which competed in interna- tional Computer Go tournaments under the name Go4++. Dr.
BGJ 128 Autumn 2002
Reviewer: Nick Wedd
In issue 109 of this Journal, I wrote a review of version 10 of David Fotland’s program The Many Faces of Go. Since then, I have been recommending it as the best all-round Go program for someone who is willing to pay for the best. Version 11 has now been released.
BGJ 122 Spring 2001
Reviewer: William Connolley
In my last game at the last London Open, both my opponent and I recorded our games on a Palm using – quick plug – PilotGOne:
they seem to becoming quite common.
BGJ 119 Summer 2000
Reviewer: Paul Hazelden
The good news: Go Professional III by Oxford Softworks is a nice, solid piece of Go-playing software. The bad news: it is, as far as I can tell, almost unchanged from the previous version. There may be some subtle changes to the Go engine, but as a rusty 8 kyu I haven’t worked out yet what they are.
Review by Nick Wedd, from British Go Journal 128
These are both programs for Windows, by Anders Kierulf. They are both available from the SmartGo website. SmartGo:Board costs 29 dollars, SmartGo:Player costs 59 dollars.
The advertisement says that the program has a 4 kyu diploma from Japan, this seems optimistic, the first game I played against it I gave it 9 stones and won by 241 (But I am a mean handicap player, I can normally give a real 4 kyu about 100 komi in a 9 stone game).
Goliath version 3.5
BGJ 119 Autumn 2000
Reviewer: Mogens Jakobsen, June 2000, with help from Lene & Lasse
Reviewer: Nick Wedd
