- Features
This program for PC-compatibles has been specially designed to perform a number of functions relating to life and death problems.
It has a data base consisting of 2 sets of 12,000 problems each.
You can solve the problems by going through the problems yourself, or by asking the computer to show you the correct sequences, or by playing the life and death problems against the computer like a game. The opportunity to play through any possible sequence and to get a direct reply from the computer makes a qualitative difference compared with learning life/death fighting from books where the number of displayed diagrams and variations is necessarily limited.
You can set up your own positions for life and death, store them in different formats and ask the computer to solve them. The interactive play and the solving mode can be useful as a research tool to solve difficult problems or to find new unknown solutions as happened at the 70th aniversary of the Nihon Kiin in Tokio 1994 when running GoTools together with Sirae Haruhiko (5th Pro Dan).
GoTools has different output formats, one is suited for desktop publishing with LaTeX.
You can also test your Go strength by guessing best moves to randomly selected problems. The computer grades your answer and gives you a score based on your performance. According to your strength you can choose different difficulty levels. This mode is well suited for beginners.
There is an automatic problem generation feature that can generate about 100 problems on a PC 486 overnight.
You can set up your own positions for life and death, store them in different formats and ask the computer to solve them. The interactive play and the solving mode can be useful as a research tool to solve difficult problems or to find new unknown solutions as happened at the 70th aniversary of the Nihon Kiin in Tokio 1994 when running GoTools together with Sirae Haruhiko (Image).
It has a data base consisting of 2 sets of 12,000 problems each.
You can solve the problems by going through the problems yourself, or by asking the computer to show you the correct sequences, or by playing the life and death problems against the computer like a game. The opportunity to play through any possible sequence and to get a direct reply from the computer makes a qualitative difference compared with learning life/death fighting from books where the number of displayed diagrams and variations is necessarily limited.
You can set up your own positions for life and death, store them in different formats and ask the computer to solve them. The interactive play and the solving mode can be useful as a research tool to solve difficult problems or to find new unknown solutions as happened at the 70th aniversary of the Nihon Kiin in Tokio 1994 when running GoTools together with Sirae Haruhiko (5th Pro Dan).
GoTools has different output formats, one is suited for desktop publishing with LaTeX.
You can also test your Go strength by guessing best moves to randomly selected problems. The computer grades your answer and gives you a score based on your performance. According to your strength you can choose different difficulty levels. This mode is well suited for beginners.
There is an automatic problem generation feature that can generate about 100 problems on a PC 486 overnight.
You can set up your own positions for life and death, store them in different formats and ask the computer to solve them. The interactive play and the solving mode can be useful as a research tool to solve difficult problems or to find new unknown solutions as happened at the 70th aniversary of the Nihon Kiin in Tokio 1994 when running GoTools together with Sirae Haruhiko (Image).
