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 Post subject: PlayGo: playing app for Windows Phone!
Post #1 Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:30 pm 
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I released PlayGo, an app for playing go on Windows Phone!

It features:
  • Play on the board of various size (form 7x7 to 19x19);
  • Several difficulty levels
  • Equalize the chances to win with the Handicap
  • Challenge yourself with "One color go". Try to win when all stones on the board the same color.

Links for Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 (phones only)

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 Post subject: Re: PlayGo: playing app for Windows Phone!
Post #2 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:25 am 
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Great to see a new Go app for Windows Phone. They are far and few. Well done.

Can you tell us a few details about your app?

What Go engine does it use (GNU Go?) ?

What's it's playing strength roughly ?

Does it use Monte Carlo techniques or is it knowledge/pattern based, or both ?

Lastly, this platform is lacking Life and Death apps. Do you plan any further apps?

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Post #3 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:44 pm 
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longshanks wrote:
Great to see a new Go app for Windows Phone. They are far and few. Well done.
Can you tell us a few details about your app?
What Go engine does it use (GNU Go?) ?
What's it's playing strength roughly ?
Does it use Monte Carlo techniques or is it knowledge/pattern based, or both ?

Gnugo never will not be available on Windows Phone due to licensing restrictions from Microsoft.
Now the application is using modified engine "Amigo" (ported to C#, some bugfix, etc). He is very weak and plays at 20 kyu.
When I started to develop my main goal was to get the app to play Go.

The second goal, the one I'm working on now is to make the app plays stronger than GnuGo. I am currently working on porting the same engine, using Monte Carlo UCT and fuseki db. I hope to release by the end of the month a new version, which will be much stronger.
While you can just play the first one color go. The strength of the program on a large board there is not much important :)

longshanks wrote:
Lastly, this platform is lacking Life and Death apps. Do you plan any further apps?

I thought about it and I also do not have enough programs to solve tsumego. I'll do it, but I'm not ready to say when.

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