Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 12:17:05 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 15:12:50, Roy Eassa wrote: >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. That's http://smartgo.com . It's a nice app with a very professional manual and a good web site. The beta version I have has improvements compared to the one you can download, of course. But I do have a few concerns about the GUI that I've expressed to the author. (He's a good guy and works hard and full time on the program.)
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