Comments on: Go in GNOME

By: liberforce

liberforce — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:13:13 +0000

Using glglo too…

By: Aaron Seigo

Aaron Seigo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:31:25 +0000

Kigo; it’s relatively new and uses KDE libs (hopefully not a show stopper for you =) but does things like work with gnugo rather nicely. I don’t think it has IGS support yet (?) but seeing as it sprung up just this year (July, to be exact) and has a couple rather enthusiastic developers behind it (e.g. http://saschpe.wordpress.com/) and that its rather playable already, i’m optimistic about it.

it’s currently only in playground (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/games/kigo/), but i’m hoping for a first official release soonish.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:20:37 +0000

http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/glgo/

By: gpoo

gpoo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:03:56 +0000

CGoban3 is the reimplementation. You can find it at KGS). It is written in Java. No source code available.

I downloaded it and I wrote an small .desktop file, so I launch it from the Menu without visiting the webpage every time.

As far as I know, KGS uses its own protocol (an extension of GTP).

I used to use uligo for writing exercises and qgo for play agains GnuGo. I was told GnuGo is not a hard competitor, so I haven’t played with it so much.

I never heard about Quarry. One year ago I was looking for a project to contribute with. I’ll take a look at the code.

By: pel

pel — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:18:39 +0000

Myself I use the java version of cgoban to play on kgs (which IMHO is far nicer than IGS and NNGS, I also really enjoy the kgs+ service).

Unfortunatly it fails on two points:
* It is not open source
* It does currently not run on the n8x0

I installed jalimo on my n800 and so far it breaks on this bug.