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Does anyone have recommendations for educational Go software, akin to the various quasi-gamified chess learning and training platforms emerging lately (PlayMagn

Does anyone have recommendations for educational Go software, akin to the various quasi-gamified chess learning and training platforms emerging lately (PlayMagnus et al)? I'm not sure I have the mental bandwidth right now to work through books independently, but would love an app or other service I could spend a free minute or two on here and there. I'm aware of Baduk Pop (https://badukpop.com/ https://badukpop.com/) but haven't tried it yet; there's also SmartGo (https://www.smartgo.com/ https://www.smartgo.com/) but it's Windows/iOS (with a MacOS version in the works) and I'm mainly using Linux and Android.

ameminator 5y ago
I use Leela with the Lizzie frontend [0]. Leela is just the "engine" and Lizzie, the gui, does make it shine. It does pretty well on my end with a budget GPU and midrange CPU. Strongly recommend playing against it and using it to analyze games. [0] https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie/releases https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie/releases
- meiji163 5y ago
  The strongest open source engine right now is KataGo (https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo)
beermonster 5y ago
Many Faces of Go by David Fotland is good for learning but there are stronger opponent bots out there these days for playing against thanks to community efforts such as Leela Zero and KataGo. However if you’re going to play a bot it helps if it’s sufficiently strong even if it doesn’t teach you, since you won’t end up copying it’s potentially questionable moves.
mNovak 5y ago
There's lots of sites hosting Go problems that rank you up into harder problems as you progress [1,2]; though mostly life and death type problems. Lately I've been seeing commentary on "The Conquest of Go" (never played it), which looks more like gamified full matches. [1] blacktoplay.com [2] goproblems.com

ameminator 5y ago

I use Leela with the Lizzie frontend [0]. Leela is just the "engine" and Lizzie, the gui, does make it shine. It does pretty well on my end with a budget GPU and midrange CPU. Strongly recommend playing against it and using it to analyze games. [0] https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie/releases https://github.com/featurecat/lizzie/releases

meiji163 5y ago
The strongest open source engine right now is KataGo (https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo)

beermonster 5y ago

Many Faces of Go by David Fotland is good for learning but there are stronger opponent bots out there these days for playing against thanks to community efforts such as Leela Zero and KataGo. However if you’re going to play a bot it helps if it’s sufficiently strong even if it doesn’t teach you, since you won’t end up copying it’s potentially questionable moves.

mNovak 5y ago

There's lots of sites hosting Go problems that rank you up into harder problems as you progress [1,2]; though mostly life and death type problems. Lately I've been seeing commentary on "The Conquest of Go" (never played it), which looks more like gamified full matches. [1] blacktoplay.com [2] goproblems.com