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Subject: Re: Go programming

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:12:50 02/13/04

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On February 13, 2004 at 14:56:33, Janosch Zwerensky wrote:

>
>>The features that would really sell might not be IDENTICAL to those of a good
>>chess tool like ChessBase, but I'd bet there are OTHER features that would still
>>be considered invaluable.
>
>Yes, you certainly have a point here.
>I do think a strong program would sell well, but this doesn't mean that it would
>necessarily be impossible to write a program that doesn't play a dan-level game
>and still sell.
>
>>Have you looked at SmartGo? (...)
>
>No, I don't know this one. The most interesting Go client I've seen so far
>features-wise is TanGo (see http://www.amourtan.com/ for more), but I haven't
>tried it since it's closely tied to the windows platform and I happen to be
>running linux :(.


Yes, I've used TanGo and exchanged several e-mails with the author.  He's too
busy to work on it much (it was a side thing), which is why I then contacted the
author of SmartGo.  (Check it out at smartgo.com !)  I like TanGo a lot,
especially for a free app.



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