What Go program is this?

Babelardus · #1

Hi

As I've created some previously non-existing builds of some Go engines (64-bit Pachi, Fuego and Gnu Go for Windows), I was looking into setting up a small website to host them, and information about other free/open source Go software. While looking for a name, I found the site http://www.igosoft.com; some German guy who runs a private Go tournament on his home computer. There's a picture there that looks like this:

Anyone seen this program before?

I'm wondering if this really is a Go program, because it looks like the older Chessbase Fritz interface. I own Fritz11, and I can set it up to look like that, or at least very, very similar, except with chessboards in place of the Go boards. I'm suspecting this picture might be photoshopped, because it shows a distinct Chessbase/Fritz feature: the four-way clock. In Fritz, it looks like this:

The logo's to the left and right of the clock can be disabled to make the window smaller. Disable the Fritz logo, and the clock looks exactly like the one in that Go program. This is either an older Chessbase/Fritz GUI, photoshopped to look like a Go program, or it is a real program that copies the look and feel of Chessbase one to one, at least at first glance.

What do you think; anybody know this program?

Bonobo · #2

Most probably one of these, not a short list, though … and here he also writes about the Chessbase team visiting the Computer Go match, so I could well imagine some Go programmer being “inspired” …

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Here is another photo of the same program. I’m sure it is NOT a Photoshop job.

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And another photo on http://ortenix.cz/foto.php?img=lide/go/ ... tm/a06.jpg

You might find this text on the igosoft site interesting:

Quote:

Suzie (SZ)

authors: Peter Woitke and Chrilly Donninger

version: version 0.26 (Aug. 2007) for 9x9 / will be replaced by newest version 0.40 (Nov. 2008) soon. Suzie often plays on the CGoS mostly as a Linux version: v0.40L recently has achieved Elo 1756 there for 19x19 Go and Elo 2127 for 9x9 Go.

info: Suzie is a chess program that plays the game of Go. It is based on alpha-beta search with iterative deepening, ply extensions, quiescence search, null-move pruning, null-window pruning and multi-cut pruning. Suzie uses a MoyoGo-like shape generator to hardprune away "useless" moves, and the search becomes purely "local" beyond a certain depth. The position evaluation function uses tree-search for tactical stability and to resolve small semiai. Suzie reaches about 3000-7000 positions evaluations/sec on 9x9, and 1000-3000 on 19x19. With the aggressive hard- and softpruning techniques applied, Suzie v0.40 reaches a search depth (without extensions) of 6-8 on 9x9 (8min) and 4-6 on 19x19 (32min).

SUZIE is not yet available (- originally the Chess software house ChessBase in Hamburg, Germany, planned to release it in 2007 and started to develop a user interface like the one for their chess program FRITZ - in that form SUZIE v0.23b was presented to public on the European Go Congress 2007 in Villach, Austria => Photos)

From all this I’d guess that this is some alpha version of SUZIE (every screenshot I have seen shows a 9x9 game, and #ChessBase)

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