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Professional Goban (Go Game Set)

Professional Goban (Go Game Set)
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Professional low prim Goban.

Features:
- AGA rules (no suicide, ko, pass stone, territory counting)
- Last move highlighted
- Step by step undo of arbitrary amount of moves, if opponent accepts undo
- Automated counting according to AGA rules
- Game can be resumed after passing or counting in case of dispute
- Game can be resumed after resign or timeout (timer is reset in case of timeout)
- Timer with Byo-Yomi functionality
- Board can print complete game record in SGF format anytime
- 9x9, 13x13 and 19x19 board
- 25 prims only for the functional game units (Goban and timer)
- 14 prim fully modifyable decoration set: scripted cushions, stone cups, prisoner cups, goban feet and timer table
- Timer and timer table can be hidden with menu command
- Fast implementation (mono compiled, efficient counting algorithm)
- Free updates!

Features coming soon:
- Game review with discussion tools

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Problems with this game
full star empty star empty star empty star empty star Posted February 18, 2020 by Colonel Spaatz

I was expecting great things with this game, but am highly disappointed. I'm a beginning Go player so maybe there are some things I don't get yet, but here are the problems I've seen so far.

1. It doesn't show captured stones in the bowls like other, less expensive, Go games do
2. The scoring process isn't clear and doesn't agree with manual scoring
3. Trying to disable the timer only works some of the time. Even with the timer disabled, it will sometimes time-out a game. This is highly frustrating.

Given the choice, I would not purchase this Go game again - at least not until there is a new version that clears up these obvious problems.

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