The Many Faces of Go

Product Details

Amazon Sales Rank: #29962 in Video Games

Brand: ChessCentral

ESRB Rating: Kids to Adults

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT

Format: CD

Dimensions: .0 pounds

Features

Play Go and start a new passion with a 4,000 year-old game of strategy played by more than 100 million people

Great graphics. Beautiful and adjustable 3-D slate and clamshell stones with shadows, and realistic wood grain.

Go tutorial. Over 100 screens of text, examples, and simple problems teach you the rules, elementary tactics and strategies.

Go problems. Over 2,000 go problems for all levels of player.

Play Go on the Internet. An Internet Go Client is built in so you can play go on the internet with the familiar Many Faces interface

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Customer Reviews

Many Faces has helped this new Go player
The basics of the game of GO a very simple (think Othello) - but has more intricacies than chess. Yes, there are plenty of free games on the net - and a downloadable version of Many Faces of GO is available. SEARCH I GOWIN. For a newbie like me, I highly recommend learning the basics of GO and many important classical moves from the free software IGOWIN.

But when you have the basics down - you can try a book. I'm more visual and the software has been easier way for me to learn "hands-on" with a Hint button. Plus, when I play on the software, I learn more of the basic strategy which has been hard to learn from the books.

I love the game of GO more than chess. I play with my 23 yo son who understands the strategy better than I do - so, between games, I am learning with this software which is very user friendly. Since this is a game that will take a life-time to learn, I find that the software gives me patient learning that the even the lowest ranked on-line players can't give me - including the time to think things over and take back dumb moves.

If you want to learn the game of GO - BEWARE, it is VERY adicting. Try the free 9 x 9 version to learn the basics. Then graduate to this program. It is good enough for beginners and higher levels of play.

I havn't seen this product
Hello,
I have not bought this product, but anyone who was considering purchasing it in order to get an introduction to the game of baduk (or go) should first look at http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/
The reason that I say this is that, a big selling point of this software seems to be that it includes an Internet Go Client that allows you to play over the Internet. There are many freely available such clients. All you need to do is follow the above link for a pretty good introduction to the game, a free Internet client or two, and a free server with many fellow players, of all skill levels, to play against.
This is not to say that this product does not do an excellent job of getting someone involved in the game of baduk, I am in no way trying to discourage anyone from buying it. After all, as I have said, I have never even set my eyes on this product. I am sure that it offers a very nice experience, but at $89.00, I am almost as sure that the same sort of experience can be gained by freely available means.

Cheers.

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