Life In 19x19

Go Books and SmartGo One are separate apps, and thus their in-app purchases are separate too – no way to get them automatically from one app to the other, unfortunately. To get around this, you need to associate your book purchases with your email in each app, and then the purchases sync. See https ...

Five years in the making, the all-new version of SmartGo for iPhone and iPad is ready. One app for all your go needs – whether you want to learn the game, play against the computer, solve problems, or read go books.
https://smartgo.com

For more information, please see the following blog posts on ...

SmartGo for Mac is now free, the Windows version is cheaper, and some news about future SmartGo apps.

https://smartgo.blog/2020/12/03/smartgo-mac-free/

Enjoy!

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Of course, you can still go to https://gobooks.com/books.pdf and maybe find something interesting there. E.g. you'll see that I've just released "Ke Jie vs Park Junghwan: The Battle to be Number One" by Yuan Zhou.

Two more suggestions for Android ePub readers:
- Reasily https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... pp.reasily
- Adobe Digital Editions https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... aleditions

Please let me know what your experiences are with those apps.

That ghost book is now gone from the website – spooky!

(Now I know how Apple feels when they inadvertently leak future products.)

My blog post on the topic:
https://smartgo.blog/2019/05/15/spirit-of-the-game/

Any other sources (recommendations) for Windows? Besides Calibre.
I tried a bunch of ePub readers on Windows last year, and they were generally pretty bad. I'd love to hear that I missed some good ePub readers in my search, but it seems that there is definitely room for a well-designed ePub reader ...

I tried reading a couple of samples using whatever my Windows 10 default reader is (Edge?) and it was readable but the numbers on the stones were off center and just a little bit difficult to read.
Yes, Edge has a bug that causes the numbers to be off-center. On Windows, I would recommend calibre ...

Am I remembering correctly that SmartGo just uses SGF, and embeds the book related metadata in SGF attributes that it knows how to handle?
I did that for the first 20 books, but it was too cumbersome and error-prone, as the SGF tree structure didn't match the more linear structure of a book. Since ...

Most of the books at gobooks.com are now available as ePub. More details here:
https://smartgo.blog/2019/03/08/epubs-gobooks-com/

If you want to look at ELF’s analysis of pro games but don’t want to download gigs of data, you can now download the annotated SGF for a specific game:
https://smartgo.com/gogod.html

Saving evaluations seems like a good candidate for a property that a number of programs would use and could agree on. Using VR seems like a good choice. My recommendation would be to stick to defining that one property: get all interested parties to work out and agree to an extensible definition for ...

goame wrote:Is it possible now to use Leela 0.8.0 with SmartGo?

Yes. In the newest SmartGo for Windows, choose Tools > Options > Engine > Go Text Protocol Engines, and add Leela with command line option: leela --gtp