Go Indonesia

13x13 Go-playing program by Jimmy Lu (Lu Jinqiang).

We estimate that the rank of WinHonte 2.0 is around 4–9 kyu. However, WinHonte, like other computer programs, has strengths and weaknesses that are different from those of human players. Therefore, human opponents will often be able to improve their results against the program by adjusting to its style.

PANDA-glGo is a 3D and 2D Goban, game viewer and editor, client for IGS-PandaNet and interface for GNU Go. * A fancy 3D goban display. The board can be rotated and zoomed * A classic 2D goban display * Client for IGS-Pandanet * Support for GNU Go over GTP * Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux * Loads and saves SGF files * Loads UGF files and the PandaNet mail magazine games * Loads Ishi files * Loads games in the Jago XML file format * SGF game editing * Two different game tree displays * A player database tool implemented as Python plugin * A standalone manager for the player and games database * A converter for UGF to SGF format * A converter for Ishi to SGF format

The history of Go stretches back some 4000 years and the game still enjoys a great popularity all over the world. Although its rules are simple (see gobase for a comprehensive introduction), its complexity has defeated the many attempts done to build a good Computer-Go player since the late 70's Presently, the best Computer-Go players are at the level of weak amateurs; Go is now considered one of the most difficult challenges for AI, replacing Chess in this role. The complexity of computer-Go comes from the difficulty to evaluation of given Go board position and the huge branching factor.