Life In 19x19

I installed this app today and I like it already.
The problems are very nice and even the easy ones are quite challenging at times. Very nice! This will most certainly be one of my mostly used tsumego apps the following weeks!

I do like this app.

Have you considered providing an option to report a problem?

I have found quite a few problems which would benefit from reporting - they're usually unmarked solutions and, in one memorable case, the tree ended, marked correct, without showing that white could get Seki with sente three moves later. (The way the tree ended implied that black had killed white but that was not the case...)

Nice work!! I recommend it!

It's a great app. The best one I found out there. But 2 quirks itch me:

Every three days or so, I get a pop-up to rate the app. Gentlemanly it offers a "never" (bravo!). But then why, after three days, does the pop-up appear again?!? Please don't do that. I don't rate. And if I ever gonna rate your app, I'll probably be in an extremely grumpy mood

Occasionaly I turn my phone to the side without actually wanting to do so. When I tilt it back in an upright position the position of the board is not the same but with more of the board visible or upside down. I'd appreciate it if the board looks the same as before.

Anyway, thank you for the app. I can highly recommend it.

bayu wrote:Every three days or so, I get a pop-up to rate the app. Gentlemanly it offers a "never" (bravo!). But then why, after three days, does the pop-up appear again?!? Please don't do that. I don't rate. And if I ever gonna rate your app, I'll probably be in an extremely grumpy mood

I can do you one better. I *did* rate it and it's still periodically asking me to... rate it.

ys or so, I get a pop-up to rate the app.

I'm sorry for this, it shouldn't display the popup now (or just once).

Occasionaly I turn my phone to the side without actually wanting to do so. When I tilt it back in an upright position the position of the board is not the same but with more of the board visible or upside down. I'd appreciate it if the board looks the same as before.

This will be fixed soon, thanks for reporting it

Charlie wrote:Have you considered providing an option to report a problem?

I thought about it but this requires a server and quite a lot of work for a "simple" feature, so it's currently not one of my priorities. But if you find a problem with incorrect solutions, you can just tell me the problem number by email and I will be glad to fix it.

Dalmas wrote:

Charlie wrote:Have you considered providing an option to report a problem?

I thought about it but this requires a server and quite a lot of work for a "simple" feature, so it's currently not one of my priorities. But if you find a problem with incorrect solutions, you can just tell me the problem number by email and I will be glad to fix it.

I don't think this is merely a feature. The ability to improve the problem corpus is an essential use-case for any amateur (i.e. not curated by a pro.) problem collection.

Also, I'd seriously consider removing the 'rate-my-app' screen altogether. Every time I encounter such a screen, my first instinct is to go give the app the lowest possible rating citing the 'rate-my-app' screen as the reason. With me, app developers are lucky because I do not give ratings, as a rule, but I know many, many people who feel like this and do precisely that.

Charlie wrote:I don't think this is merely a feature. The ability to improve the problem corpus is an essential use-case for any amateur (i.e. not curated by a pro.) problem collection.

You're right, it may be worth the time. I will think about it.

Charlie wrote:Also, I'd seriously consider removing the 'rate-my-app' screen altogether. Every time I encounter such a screen, my first instinct is to go give the app the lowest possible rating citing the 'rate-my-app' screen as the reason.

I agree with you, but it's almost required to have the app appear in the search results. Google Play uses the app rating and the average number of users who rate the app per month to decide which apps will appear first. That's why so many developers use this popup (80% of the ratings comes from it), even though they know it's annoying for the user.

I love it!!

But, is this a mistake?? I have bought a package even!!! ; p

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No mistake, black can save his 3 stones.

I think that it's bad corrected in the app. Pretty sure though...

I don't understand your English. Did you mean "I think it's not correct in the app"? If you think there is a mistake in that problem whose screenshot you posted and black can't save his 3 stones then you are wrong, he can. It's a clever tesuji.

Sorry...

Yes, you can kill the stones. But the sequence that is suppossed to do that, it's marked as bad variation.

And the sequence which the program says is good, doesnt works.

Excellent app! I can comment that after trying out 5 similar apps this is by far the best tsumego app on google play Thanks for the work Dalmas

One suggestion: if we find problems with solutions that may be inappropriate, rather than just sending you an email and wait for a fix, could you allow the possibility to let the user manually delete/unactivate the problem so that it won't show up on the ranked "progress" games?

Cheers
k

The latest version of Tsumego Pro (2.31) now has a feature to report an invalid problem directly in the app. Thanks to Charlie for the suggestion.

kfp22 wrote:One suggestion: if we find problems with solutions that may be inappropriate, rather than just sending you an email and wait for a fix, could you allow the possibility to let the user manually delete/unactivate the problem so that it won't show up on the ranked "progress" games?

With this new feature I should be able to fix problems more quickly, so I hope this will not be required.

By the way, if any one of you is interested, I published a chess problems app very similar to Tsumego Pro. It has some new features but you will see all of them in Tsumego Pro soon : rank history, bookmarks, and a better problem selection in "progress" mode (no more problems that come again and again).