Why a blog? Because often 140 characters on Twitter are not enough. I’ll use this blog to give more detail, to answer SmartGo questions that are of interest to a wider audience, and to provide tips and tricks for SmartGo.
Welcome.
Why a blog? Because often 140 characters on Twitter are not enough. I’ll use this blog to give more detail, to answer SmartGo questions that are of interest to a wider audience, and to provide tips and tricks for SmartGo.
Welcome.
2009-09-06 at 21:54
I haven’t played Go in years and was a beginner when I did play. I just downloaded SmartGo for the iPhone. Thank you for a great program that includes problems and a game. My question, is SmartGo Pro for the iPhone have problems too advanced for a beginner?
2009-09-07 at 10:08
The problems in SmartGo Pro range from 30 kyu (beginner) to 6 dan (strong amateur). In the range of 30k – 15k, which is probably the range most appropriate for a beginner, there are 259 problems. Once you’ve gone through those, and played some more Go, you might be ready to tackle some of the harder ones.
2009-09-19 at 04:30
Speaking about Go problems, I’m interested in the iPod touch version but have a few questions. There are some GoGrinder features I wouldn’t want to miss:
- I have entered many many problems already for GoGrinder; is it possible to transfer them to SmartGo Pro on the iPod touch?
- Is there an option to shuffle the problem order, to randomly rotate and to randomly swap colors?
- Does it automatically advance to the next problem?
- Can you manually select the previous/next problem and go to the beginning and end of the current set?
- Can you manually explore variations? GoGrinder has a nice “Navigate solution” feature that shows “right” next moves as green dots and “wrong” next moves as red dots.
- Does it support both triangled moves as well as WV[] to indicate “wrong” variations?
- If there are several moves for the opponent, does it choose an answer randomly? If so, does after finishing one line, does it go through other possibly opponent answers as well?
- Can you group problems hierarchically and select a subdirectory of problems that you want to solve?
- Does it keep a timer and a counter for the number of problems you got right and wrong?
Sorry about so many questions… Reading over those questions again, I think I really want all the features of GoGrinder on the iPhone touch…
Maybe there is enough material for a blog post on SmartGo Pro’s problems feature.
Thank you.