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Goban


"...as elegant and deceptively simple as the game itself."

Play Go on Mac OS X - Jouez au go sur Mac OS X

Use Goban to play the game of go against the program. Play with people on the Internet go servers or your local network. Observe live pro and amateur games on IGS, the Internet Go Server. Review and analyze games. Browse through joseki or fuseki libraries... Goban is a powerful, simple, fast go board for Mac OS X. Like Hikaru and Sai, use a Mac to play go!

Goban board

Fig. 1: A go game. (Larger image)

News - November 5, 2007

  • GNU Go 3.7.11, compiled for Mac OS X is available now as a universal binary.
  • A new release of Goban should be available soon.

News - August 30, 2006

The current version of Goban is 3.2.12, includes:

  • Fix problem when observing IGS games.
  • Universal binary.
  • Goban 3.2 introduced many Internet Go improvements (IGS rooms, statistics, trail, text display, ...); nicer board display; stone preferences; one-color go; redo undone moves; copy positions in Sensei's ASCII format; faster display and loading of files and Internet games; and more...

Learn more about Goban

 

 

Features

Features of Goban include:

Rules Inspector

Fig. 2: Rules Inspector.

Internet go players

Fig. 3: Internet go players.

License and Copyright

Goban is copyrighted work: Copyright (c) 1997-2004, Sen:te (Sente SA). All rights reserved.

Goban is currently distributed free of charge. Permission must be obtained for redistribution. A different version of Goban (FreeGoban) is distributed as free software, under the GNU General Public License.

All of the art work is copyrighted and shall not be reused without explicit permission.

Goban includes GNU Go, which is distributed under the GNU Public license library. The source code for GNU Go is available.

For more information about this license, contact goban@sente.ch.

Feedback

For any question, suggestion, or problem report, please send an e-mail to goban@sente.ch.

Download

Goban can be downloaded from our server as a disk image (.dmg).


Goban 3.2.12 for Mac OS X, 10.4 and above, Universal binary: .dmg file Goban_3_2_12.dmg (9.7 MB)

Goban 3.2.9 for Mac OS X, 10.3.9 and above, G3/G4/G5 only: .dmg file Goban_3_2_9.dmg (8.3 MB)

Goban 3.2.7 for Mac OS X, 10.1.5 and above, G3/G4/G5 only: .dmg file Goban_3_2_7.dmg (8.3 MB)

Additional designs for the stones are available in the package below. In order to use them, create a folder named Goban in your Library folder, create a folder named Stones in the Goban folder you just created, and copy the content of this package in Stones.


Go stones .dmg file Stones.dmg (4.1 MB)

Goban includes the latest stable release of GNU Go. If you want to experiment with the latest development version, it is available below. This disk image contains a gnugo executable compiled for Mac OS X, as well as the source code. Several other Go engines, distributed by Andrew Balsa under the GPL are also available. Information on how to use these executables with Goban is available in help.


GNU Go 3.7.11 for Mac OS X 10.4.3 and above, universal binary .dmg file gnugo-3.7.11.dmg (6.0 MB)
GNU Go 3.7.7 for Mac OS X 10.1 and above, G3/G4/G5 only .dmg file gnugo.dmg (5.1 MB)

GTP Go engines for Mac OS X 10.2 and above, G3/G4/G5 only .dmg file GoEngines.dmg (1.4 MB)

Mailing List

A mailing list for Goban users is available. New releases will be announced on this list.

FAQ

Does or will Goban work with the Kiseido Go Server (KGS)?
KGS uses a closed protocol and wants to control both the server and client. They are actively discouraging 3rd party clients. Goban will not work with KGS as long as this is the case.

Does or will Goban run on Mac OS 9, 8, ... ?
Sorry, no. Goban is a Mac OS X only application. Go software for older Mac OS releases is listed on the Shodan web site.

Does or will Goban run on Windows?
Sorry, no. Goban is a Mac OS X only application. We currently have no plans to do a Windows version.

Does or will Goban run on Linux?
Maybe. Goban is currently a Mac OS X only application. We could port it to Linux when GNUstep is sufficiently advanced.

How strong is the program?
GNU Go plays regularly on the NNGS and KGS go servers and its ratings graphed over time are available: NNGS [currently unavailable], KGS. Several GNU Go robots are also playing regularly on the IGS (with a rank of 12 kyu).

Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

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