Jacqueline Go

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Purpose

Jacqueline Go is an implementation of the old asian strategy game of Go. Try to surround empty fields and the stones of the enemy by putting your stones on the board. If a group of enemy stones is completely surrounded, it is removed from the board. The player with more stones and more territory wins.

For experienced players, Jacqueline Go offers the following features:

• load and save SGF files
• edit game positions
• handicap stones
• can be used as a front end for other go programs (GTP)
• offers different boards
• supports English, German and Swiss German

How to use it

You need an Intel Mac to run Jacqueline Go. Download Jacqueline.dmg. Open it and drag Jacqueline.app in your application folder. Start the application as usual.
This is a preconfigured packages which also contains GNU Go. GNU Go is a Go engine, developed by the Free Software Foundation and is licensed under the GNU GPL. Since Jacqueline Go can only play 9*9 Go, you must select Gnu Go as a player, if you want to play 19*19 Go.

History

• 20.4.2009
  Version 2.1 published, Plays stronger. Playouts know now about basic Sekis. The handling of end moves is greatly improved. Gnu Go updated to version 3.8.
• 7.3.2009
  Version 2.0 published, Plays stronger. Komi can now be configured. Calculates about 160000 playouts per move.
• 14.12.2008
  Version 1.9 published, Plays stronger. Implemented a more sensitive mouse handling.
• 18.08.2008
  Version 1.8 published, Plays faster and a little bit stronger. Changed Komi to 7.5
• 3.08.2008
  Version 1.7 published, Implemented heavy playouts and RAVE. Calculates 100000 playouts per move on an empty board.
• 24.04.2008
  Version 1.6 published, Fixed some bugs in the engine, that prevented it from playing stronger. It takes about 10 seconds to calculate a move on a dual core Intel Mac. If you think this is slow, keep in mind, that it calculates 820000 complete random go games on an empty board to find a move.
• 8.04.2008
  Version 1.5 published, Abandoned java and XP version. The engine has been reprogrammed in C and uses now the UCT algorithm.
• 1.02.2007
  Version 1.4 published, ported to Java 5.0 and to Mac OS X. Some minor bug fixes 1.4 has the same functionality as 1.3 but runs now on Mac.
• 12.06.2005
  Version 1.3 published, slightly stronger, faster gui, smaller program size, various corrections and improvements
• 27.02.2005
  Version 1.2 published, increased playing strength, support for handicap stones and early game ends
• 01.01.2005
  Version 1.1 published, support for SGF and GTP
• 11.10.2004
  Jacqueline Go became a proud member of the Computer Go ladder and won its first match.
• 16.09.2004
  Version 1.0 published on the internet

Licence Agreement

Copyright (c)2003-2008 by InforMatrix GmbH.
This software is freeware. All rights reserved.

Feedback

This software is developed and maintained by InforMatrix GmbH. All questions, bugs, requests and comments are welcomed at info@informatrix.ch