Little Go Reviews

A great go ai

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Little go is a well designed program with a fun ai to play against as a practice partner. Admittedly the default ai (even "fuego weak") can be a bit daunting for beginners but you can specify your own custom ai settings and can also give yourself up to a 9 stone handicap. I have found that since the ai will resign once the game is lost I never really fully practiced the endgame. Against humans I lost a lot of endgames due to careless moves. You can specify a no-resign ai to play against though (resign behavior is customizable)

Best go app I can find

Rkanecook

This app has everything you need to play go. You can save games and play them back turn by turn. It's fully customizable, you can change the board size, the rules, who's black and white, ect. Yes the ai is incredibly difficult. I can spend hours on this app trying and failing to beat it. It's great practice for fighting real opponents and eventually you can find a way to beat the ai.

Free, strong Go app — can be adjusted for beginners

Conrad Chaffee

* Overview: This is a great Go app. Unfortunately, it's default settings are very strong, and its UI is not intuitive, which is why many other reviewers are unhappy. But if you're willing to dig in and adjust the settings, I think most players can enjoy it. Of course, it took me a while to figure out all those settings. * Initial settings: First things first: unless you're at least 2-3k, I recommend that when you start a new game, you use the initial screen that pops up to adjust the settings by switching the computer to "Fuego (weak)," turning off "even game," and then adding a handicap. * Strength: I'm an AGA 1d. After a couple of hours of playing 9x9 games, I was finally able to beat it at the default ("Fuego") setting without a handicap — but only once. My guess is that the default strength is at least 3d. I also tried playing against "Fuego (weak)," again without a handicap, and I was able to beat it most of the time, but not all the time. My guess is that it's about 2k. The app calls the "weak" setting a "1" and the default setting a "5", so I would tentatively say: "1" = 2k = Fuego (weak) "2" = 1k "3" = 1d "4" = 2d "5" = 3d = Fuego If you're below 2k, I recommend adding handicap stones accordingly. You may also want to adjust the default komi setting (7.5) using the "advanced settings" on that initial screen before playing. While you're there, you can also switch from area to territory scoring if you wish. * Personalizing: To create your own profile, click on "Settings" then "Players & Profiles" then "add new player," and chose a user name for yourself. * Further adjustments — how to make the "weak" profile weaker or the default profile stronger It's possible to adjust the strength settings. To weaken the "Fuego (weak)" profile, click on "Settings," then "Players & Profiles," then "Fuego (weak)," then "Display profile settings," then "advanced configuration" (just under "playing strength"). From there, you can adjust the "thinking time" slider from its default (10 seconds) all the way down to 1 second. Alternatively, to strengthen the default "Fuego" profile, click on "Settings," then "Players & Profiles," then "Fuego," then "profile" and select "extra strong". The strength stays at "5," but the Monte Carlo engine is given more time to think. Enjoy!

Solid

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Pros: *Highly customizable games and AI *Actually free Cons: *You have to press somewhat hard to place stones *Forward/fast forward buttons are too close together, so often you end up skipping to the end of a game when you are reviewing it Suggestions: *Add a rematch option under 'Game actions'. The purpose would be to save a few presses (faster than New Game > Done > Yes) when you want to play multiple matches with the same AI and settings.

good for practice

Zombyhunter

this seems to work well for practice. it is nice to try a strategy and quit if it doesn’t work and try a different one. i was able to play almost 10 games per hour. the scoring seems to be flawed but you can just calculate score manually

One of the dumbest games I’ve ever played

BearGhost

Go itself is a fun game but this version seems like it’s set up to cheat you with the computer executing moves you can’t do but it’s able to get off somehow. It’s designed to make you fail rather than being a challenge. They’ve lost me as a gamer so please don’t wast your time with this game just play with a live person instead 14 thumbs down!!!!

Good app, but

DADARTINOCKA

I don't like that the computer has the ability to resign. I want to smash my opponent and see the game through to the bitter end.

Too hard for beginners.

JDN_Vessel_of_Chaos

I enjoy the game, but the computer is much to advanced for beginners, and the second I turn on a handicap the bot resigns on its first move. If there was some way to stop the bot from resigning, I would give it a 4/5, but as is the app is simply infuriating. Edit: I found the setting to turn off AI resignation. It’s well hidden, but as promised I am changing my score to 4/5.

Computer can do illegal moves

Mrmaldark

After playing several rounds I realized that computers can pull and do moves on that are illegal and you cannot do

Amazing!

Jokeralex1991

I got interested in the game after watching AlphaGo documentary and likely found your app which is only one without need to register on AppStore and working properly! Thank you!

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