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If you have trouble understanding how the app works, please take the time to read some of the information on the "Help" tab. There is 1) a "Quick Start Guide", 2) an FAQ section, 3) a Troubleshooting section, and 4) a full manual!
If you still have difficulties, please write me an email, and I will answer your questions as soon as possible. Writing your questions into a review is frustrating because I cannot reply to reviews.
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Little Go is a free and open source iOS application that lets you play the game of Go on the iPhone or iPad. You can play against another human (on the same device), or...
******************** IMPORTANT ********************
If you have trouble understanding how the app works, please take the time to read some of the information on the "Help" tab. There is 1) a "Quick Start Guide", 2) an FAQ section, 3) a Troubleshooting section, and 4) a full manual!
If you still have difficulties, please write me an email, and I will answer your questions as soon as possible. Writing your questions into a review is frustrating because I cannot reply to reviews.
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Little Go is a free and open source iOS application that lets you play the game of Go on the iPhone or iPad. You can play against another human (on the same device), or against the computer. The computer player is powered by the open source software library Fuego (http://fuego.sf.net/). The minimum requirement for running this version of Little Go is iOS 6.1.
Features:
- Board sizes between 7x7 and 19x19 (start a new game to change the board size)
- Let the computer player make a move for you
- Calculate score at any time during the game (area scoring is the default, territory scoring rules can be selected at the start of a new game)
- Adjust computer playing strength and resign behaviour by selecting from a number of presets, or by fine-tuning advanced settings
- Adjustable komi, handicap and ko rule (start a new game to change these values)
- View board positions for moves played earlier during the game (no support for game variations, though)
- Discard moves (aka "undo")
- Display move numbers and coordinate labels
- Zoom & scroll board
- Display player influence (aka territory statistics) for an estimate who owns an area
- Computer vs. computer game for entertainment
- Save & load games to/from the archive
- Use iTunes file sharing to transfer saved games to/from your iOS device
- Import/export game files from/to other apps on your device (e.g. Mail, DropBox)
- In-app user manual (text-only)
- Submit bug report email from inside the app (yes, this *is* a feature :-))
- For the technically inclined: Watch what happens behind the scenes when Little Go and Fuego talk to each other over the Go Text Protocol (GTP)
This is probably the last release of Little Go that will support iOS 6. The next release will probably be iOS 7 only because I don't have enough free time to work both on the iOS 7 upgrade and still support older iOS versions.
As previously announced, development on Little Go will slow down considerably in 2014. I intend to keep on fixing bugs and to support new iOS versions, but not much beyond that. Your contribution in any form (coding, testing, bug reports) will always be welcome - please contact me or visit the project website (http://littlego.herzbube.ch/) to find out more.
Little Go is released under the Apache License 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
