Evolution of a Go program

About the development of Moyo Go Studio, software to (help) play the Oriental game of Go. Go is a two-player zero-sum game of perfect information. It is considered much harder than Chess. Currently, in spite of enormous effort expended, no computer program plays it above the level of a beginner.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Miracles Take a Little Longer

Other SGF software offers drag & drop too, but I think Moyo Go is the only program that accepts dropped URL's and images from a web browser.

Open Moyo Go Studio and drag this link to the board: Go Seigen - Fujisawa Hosai.sgf

And try dragging this image straight from this blog to the board:


I just made this work, so it is not yet available in the freeware SGF editor.

(Use Settings - General Settings - Board - Skin - Board.jpg to get the original goban back.)