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NoGo 1.0
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(Magritte's greeting)
(c) 1997 by Andreas Schmitz
FREEWARE
0. Introduction
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Go is a very old Asian board game. Although the rules are very simple, the
game can be very interesting and difficult. Of course Go is most enjoyable
when played against a human opponent. But finding a playing partner is
sometimes difficult, so I started searching a computer program playing Go.
I found AmiGo, GNUGo and Wally from which the last was supposed to be the
strongest. Unfortunately it had no GUI and was not much fun to play. So I
started writing a MUI-GUI. I have to say that Wally is still a very weak
player and games are only interesting if you give him handicap stones.
1. Requirements
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NoGo should run on any Amiga with MUI installed.
2. Usage
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Starting the game from Workbench or Shell should be straight forward :-)
The meaning of the menu items should also be clear, but a few notes have to
be made:
o Wally always begins the game (to get a little advantage)
o Handicap stones are only possible on 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 boards
o Wally is much better on smaller boards
o At the end of the game you will be asked to remove dead stones and fill
the neutral points (the computer trusts you, so don't cheat here)
3. Author
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For ANY suggestions, bug-reports or whatever-you-can-think-of's please
feel free to knock at my door (you're welcome). Especially if you are
interested in a future development.
o email: otter@chessy.aworld.de (home)
schmitz@theorie.physik.uni-wuppertal.de (at work)
o homepage: http://wptu38.physik.uni-wuppertal.de/Chaos/schmitz
o my address: Andreas Schmitz
Lenneper Strasse 44a
51688 Wipperfuerth
Germoney :)
4. Future
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o GNUGo is much better structured than Wally and I think about giving
GNUGo 1.2 the same MUI-GUI. Including the source code will be more
likely then.
o Of course it would be nice if the program would be a stronger player.
7. Thanks to
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o Bill Newman (newman@tcgould.TN.CORNELL.EDU) for the original wally.c
whom I was unable to reach.
o Stefan Stuntz for MUI, which makes programming a lot easier.
o SAS for still supporting the Amiga