Does the new version handle Chinese counting? In the previous version that I have there is a pull-down menu to change the ruleset, but the only option is Japanese. Has anything else been added?

At first I also thought they were gone, but they are in the info panel -> “positions”, just press cmd+5.

HTH, Tom

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I believe the FSF takes the position that GPL'd software cannot be distributed on the app store (http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance).

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_App_Store#Regulations

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Yes, that’s the reason why GnuGo and NNGS are not included in the AppStore distribution and have to be downloaded extra and installed as an extension.

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Hello,

I am a member of Sente, the authors of Goban, http://www.sente.ch/goban/ .

An update (4.2) has just been released. In addition to several bug fixes it now includes the ability to play against Pachi, a much stronger opponent than GNU Go.

To do so the Goban Extensions package needs to be reinstalled.

As some have already commented this package is necessary because the GPL is not compatible with App Store distribution. (Users should be able to freely update or modify their software, which cannot be done for apps that are signed to be distributed on the Mac App Store.)

We will keep on improving Goban, we have many ideas for that.

Hello,

I would suggest to implement the GTP protocol, in addition to your packages which are easy to install. This would give access to a wealth of different level GTP engines freely available (mogo, Fuego, Orego, neurogo, pachi, several versions of gnugo, amigo, go169, etc.), even if the installation of GTP engines is a little more involved.

http://ricoh51.free.fr/go/engineeng.htm

You can already add GTP and GMP players to Goban. Just specify the path to the executable and the arguments in the two text fields.

Uhm, WOT?



OK, nice, but not exactly what a user of OS X would expect to have to do. Did I miss any How-To’s and links for all that on the sente.ch site?

Anyway, I’m happy you guys have finally continued to work on Goban!


Herzliche Grüße aus Norddeutschland, Tom

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What would you expect to do? In the Players preference you create a New GTP program, give it a name and set the executable path and the arguments you want to use.

Were thinking that anybody that can compile a GTP go playing program can figure it out. Also seems like the only way to provide a general and flexible way to add any go playing program.

No you did not miss much, there is no documentation at this time. We may start a FAQ if we get FQs. Thanks!

Marco,

This is really a nice feature (it is actually listed among the features on the web page of the app). Would indeed be nice to document it.

To Bonobo: I think this feature is a nice plus for more "experienced" users, in addition to the "easy to install" packages (by experienced I mean in software development not necessarily in go ! ). It is unfortunately true that Mac compiled GTP engines are not common. Compiling the sources is not always straightforward, but I really appreciate this to be available. Fuego 1.1 compiled for Mac OS X works for instance, and is a pretty strong opponent (same source as "little go" on ipad). There are more windows exe GTP engine available. I had a try using wine to plug a win binary engine in Goban, but did not work (works under gogui).

Anyway nice app.

Thanks for the explanations, Marco and pleiade67 … I actually do know how to compile stuff on OS (given there are ReadMe files ) and/but from your explanations I understand that in this case this is not something I want or need to do. And I’m happy with Pachi … Goban apparently has become a lot stronger now.

Very nice to see this app is back again.

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You need to create a new Pachi Player in the Preferences panel.

marco

http://www.sente.ch/goban

Thank you for your feedback

marco

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http://www.sente.ch/goban

Thank you for the replies, but sadly none of these seem to work for me.

I'm on a Mac OS X ML system and neither the "Positions" nor the "Move" tab show any of the comments.Also, while looking through the moves the application is now crashing quite often.

I'm including a screenshot below of the empty "Moves" tab and the subsequent crash while perusing "Counting Lessons" :

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I have long used the old version of Sen:te Goban to play against Fuego on my Mac. I updated to the new version today, and I can't play Fuego. The program either crashes or simply waits without a move being made. Has anyone managed to successfully run Fuego on the new Sen:te Goban? My version of Fuego is not 100% up-to-date, but it is not old either, I updated something like 3-4 months ago. Any advice would be much appreciated.