Life In 19x19

I have finally stepped into the 21st century with the purchase of a small and cheap Android tablet. After checking the Google Play site, I discovered there are around 20 Go apps! Quite a shock and difference from my Mac computer where Goban is just about the only option.

Since I am still figuring out how the blasted tablet works (manual is small, in tiny print and terrible English, and I am an Android Virgin) I really don't want to download everything and test it out. Any recommendations would be welcome.

real time servers:
KGS
Tetsuki (igs)

sgf tools:
andgs
gobandroid

tsumego:
gogrinder
yoo changhyuk's

turn based servers:
andgs
online go server client

There's also stuff in foreign languages, but I think that covers a lot of the English options. Senseis library has a page on android apps as well.

Depends on what all you want to do. There are apps for playing online, tsumego, keeping game records, and even one that uses the camera to score the game for you.

I mostly find myself turning to the KGS app and ElyGo. The rest just depends on what I'm trying to do.

Since I don't have wireless at home, I'm mainly interested in one that would let me play against various go game engines without an internet connection, and view pre-loaded SGF files.

Go problems are good, too.

I will probably get the KGS app at some point, though I prefer to use my computer for that.

I also intend to download one of the chess clock programs, That should be fun to try at the go club! Amazing that they have an app for everything, though I sort of wish there was a virtual ING clock, so I could see if they really are as annoying as people say.

ElyGo offers a more fine grained set of options for configuring your game against the bot than most other apps I've looked at.

Crazy Stone is a good engine to play against. I use it once in a while when I have no connection to the internet.

ElyGo is a solid app and I'm looking forward to getting Crazy Stone when my Nexus 10 arrives. Having a potentially dan level opponent at my fingertips would be nice!

I'd also mention wegoigo, which has a nice stone placement system that works particularly well on small screens. It also has a nice set of features.

I too use wegoigo (the lite version) and am pretty fond of it. The stone placement system is very intuitive, and you can also run gnugo or download problem/game/joseki collections for it to look at.

I use crazy stone (Champion go) to play against, and wegoigo is really nice for reading kogo's



Ive seen yoo changhyuk's and thought it looked cool, but could never get it to register. On one it gives me an error,
and on another phone it just crashes

ProtoJazz wrote:Ive seen yoo changhyuk's and thought it looked cool, but could never get it to register. On one it gives me an error,
and on another phone it just crashes

I had to email the support once for my password. They responded pretty quickly and may help you out if you haven't tried that route.

Thanks for all the suggestions! ^^

I'm trying Elygo and liking it, except...


I guess I will have to do my own scoring, if I want to know how big the gap was. Does the score normally get cut off like this, or is it just my tablet? Or is there some adjustment I can make?

I don't think I've run into quite that problem.

You should consider sending that screenshot to the app developer with a little info about what you're running it on.

I use KGS(for playing), andgs(for recording), gogrinder(for problems), and a Chess Clock(I have Simple Go Clock too, but this one allows you to set asymetric time. Great when a clock fails at a tournament and you have to replace it.).

I also have ElyGo, GoFree(basic go computer player. Not bad, but not very good too.), and Online Go(the Online Go Server app).
I don't recommend that scoring camera one, it never worked on my phone. Couldn't even get it to capture an image.

A few links at BGG.

Phelan wrote:I use KGS(for playing), andgs(for recording), gogrinder(for problems), and a Chess Clock(I have Simple Go Clock too, but this one allows you to set asymetric time. Great when a clock fails at a tournament and you have to replace it.).

I also have ElyGo, GoFree(basic go computer player. Not bad, but not very good too.), and Online Go(the Online Go Server app).
I don't recommend that scoring camera one, it never worked on my phone. Couldn't even get it to capture an image.

A few links at BGG.

I tried GoFree. I LOVE the look and the stone placement system, but I have it on Level 10 and it feels like an even game, so I may outgrow it pretty quickly.

Thanks for the links! Lots of interesting stuff on that page, even besides the Go.