Hactar Go
Best way to learn go is thru game of capture-go. Hactar can play capture-go with you.
Once you are skilled at capture-go you can try go against Hactar server. Hactar strength is about 1 dan in 9x9 board and 5 kyu in 19x19 board. If this is not enought, you can subscribe to stronger engine playing at 3 dan level in 19x19 board.
It is possible to search games for position or players. Search covers games from well-known public WEB archives, more that 80000 pro games are available. You can include also your games in the device.
Hactar contains over 410 go problems (tsumego). You can also add your own collections easily, or download additional 400 problem with few clicks.
Hactar GO can be used to view and record go games in SGF format. Hactar supports variations and setup stones. Hactar can automatically replay games.
Please report bugs using email or feedback! It is difficult to support in Google Play forum.
Community provided localizations welcome! Localizations are created at http://www.getlocalization.com/hactar/.
Go is known also as igo, in China as 围棋 (Weiqi) and in Korea 바둑 (Baduk).
Application price includes at least 2 years of use of network services.Hactar does not contain ads and it does not collect personal information. For full license, please see http://gowrite.net/hactar/eula.shtml
Category : Board
Reviews (14)
Easily the best Go App I've used Nice crisp clean graphics. Beginners puzzles that are really for beginners with a hint of what the player should be aiming for . Invite for optional feedback by email . Nice animation . All in all an accomplished app.
Great but in problem mode it really needs a way to replay my solution (fwd) step by step. As a beginner sometimes i solve something by intuition and I'm not entirely sure why. To lock in the learning its helpful to see a replay!
An awesome app, of course, but.. It could be a lot better, if their were a training mode, with undo capability And analysis mode (showing the Monte Carlo Simulation results (similar to Leela zero analyze) Thanks
How do you play in a 19 by 19 board? Do I have to advance using a 9 x 9 first? I dont see where I can select the 19 by 19
Best app to use if you truly want to think about what you are doing.
Brilliant introduction into Go/Weiqi.
A good app with decent developer support. Definitely worth the money I spent on it. That said, the UI could be improved a bit. For example, being able to review games from the game board screen itself.
I really love this app.
Having tried lots and lots of Go apps I've found this to be the best for learning the game. Games that get progressively harder, lots of Go problems to practice on, great game viewer and editor. Brilliant.
This deserves the money, it comes with many computer levels and problems, and can record games.
This is really a great app. Unfortunately I find it running in the background when it hasn't been used. It has been deleted. It has been reinstalled. The developer is very interested in stopping this behavior and is very nice. Upped to 5 stars for a great dev.
The abilities to open games "as problem" (for guess-the-next-move) or "as book" (for playing out on a real board) are absolutely brilliant. I won't use any other sgf viewer for reviewing pro games. And the game list with previews; also brilliant. I only wish I could open games as problem/book when I open them from a file viewer instead of relying solely on the in-app file browser to do that.
The editor is great for browsing through sgf files. Going through variations works nicely .
Recurring subscription fees bleed users dry ad infinitum, without an option to purchase the app once and for all. With superior competitor products being available that can be bought instead of rented, this milkingware has been replaced with three better alternatives, at a lower cost than what this programmer charges in a single year. Being able to play against a strong AI/bot is the entire point of using software, so it should be integrated in the local installation and not require Internet.