Goban Help

	Goban Help

What is Goban?

Goban is a program to play Go on Mac OS X. Using Goban you can play against the program, or against friends on the Internet Go servers, or your local network.

What is Go and how is it played?

Good entry points include Introduction to Go by Mindy McAdams and another beautifully illustrated Introduction to Go on the Internet Go Server. Other references include the Sensei's Library; and Go, An Addictive Game by Jan van der Steen.

How can I use Goban?

To play against the program.

To play or observe games on the Internet Go servers.

To play or observe games on your local network.

To review and analyze games and variations.

To create and annotate games and positions.

To print high quality diagrams.

How can I give feedback?

By sending an email to goban@sente.ch .

For the latest information about Goban, see http://www.sente.ch/software/goban , or subscribe to the Goban users mailing list (this link is protected with the sente/sente password to avoid contributors addresses being gathered by spammers).

Who developed Goban?

Sen:te is a software development company based in Lausanne, Switzerland. We've been doing NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, WebObjects, Mac OS X / Cocoa programming since the very beginning. More information about us can be found at www.sente.ch.

Under which License is Goban distributed?

Goban is currently distributed free of charge. Permission must be obtained for redistribution.

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

The Sparrows nesting in a Go Bowl image from the About panel is (c) Copyright IGS;

Some of the icons in the Preferences and Internet Go window are (c) Copyright Apple;

The "RealKaya" board is (c) Copyright Tweet;

All other art work, including boards and stones images are (c) Copyright Sen:te.

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

Goban includes sgf2tex, which is distributed under the GNU Public license library. The source code for sgf2tex is available.

Goban includes sgfc, which is distributed under the BSD license library. The source code for sgfc is available.

A different version of Goban (FreeGoban) is distributed as free software, under the GNU General Public License.

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

Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

Guy Moreillon, for his help with the design of the icons, stones, and Persistence Of Vision (Povray) programming;

Antti Huima, for his SGF utility library;

William Shubert, for his implementation of the Go Modem Protocol (GMP);

Erik Doernenburg, for his Cocoa implementation of Socket classes;

The GNU Go Team, for GNU Go, a nice and free Go playing program.

Stephan Somogyi, for his feedback, help and encouragements.

Tim Cartwright, for his feedback, help and encouragements.

Tweet, for his Kaya board picture, and his permission to use the "Sparrows nesting in a Go Bowl" image.

Daniel Bump and Reid Augustin, for sgf2tex, a Go typesetting software.

Gerben Wierda for his help with the integration of TeX.

Arno Hollosi for sgfc, a SGF syntax checker and converter.

Yamakawa Kazuki, for ugfc, an UGF to SGF converter.

Andrew Balsa, for his GTP compatible Go engines: badukiplus, wallyplus, randyplus, amigoplus.

Patrice Fontaine for retouching some of the alternate go stones.

Jean-Jacques Ardoino for the French localization

Our beta testers for their invaluable comments during the development of the Internet Go support: Tweedie, Raven H. Huang, Patrice Fontaine, Stephan Somogyi, Alan Crossman, Jim Watson, Joshua Epperson, Brian Merkey, Mark Anderson, Daniel Wilday, Peter Seal, Olivier Verdier, OGONG & AURORA, Olaf Foellinger.

Our users, for there continuous feedback, suggestions, and encouraging remarks.

Marco Scheurer, Sen:te, Lausanne