Learning to play Go is a lot of fun. I stopped playing, but hope to find time again. Passing time against the computer is fun, but it not nearly as good as playing another person. I highly recommend playing on KGS. The pc client is great and there are many people there that will review your games with you when you are done to discuss your good and bad moves etc.
I learned a lot by reading at the Sensei's wiki linked above and by reading some books. I liked the books by Janice Kim. They are available online and in many brick and mortar shops too. The books by Davies were also good, but start with the Kim books (at least vol 1 and 2). I enjoyed Davie's Tesuji book.
John
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Originally Posted by jim_h
Hi John,
I've only just spotted this thread, or would have replied sooner.
As a big chess fan, I haven't seen anything on Android yet that looks good. I'd also like to see something like Chessmaster, Hiarcs or Fritz for Android. Even a winboard client with the option for running UCI engines would be great. As it's becoming a more popular OS, the publishers will hopefully take more notice and we'll see something soon.
Go is one of those games I'd love to learn, but never seem to have the time, or a good teacher. I know it's far more complex than chess and so it really appeals to me. Thanks for tracking down a couple of versions for Android, I'm going to try them out and see if I get anywhere.
The post from vicky86 above looks like spam to me. One post, off topic and containing an advert link to another site. Hmmm.
Cheers,
Jim
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