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GO ANALYST v1.0 Thu 12-06-1990 02:34:49 Copyright 1990 by Randall Goodwin ┌──────────────┐ │ HOWDY FOLKS! │ └──────────────┘ Go is a very ancient game. Computers however are relatively new. This program is intended to give those without a go board the opportunity to play and enjoy the "Oldest" board game in the world! This is the first in what I hope to be a series of GO related programs for the computer. This program is also my entrance into the field of shareware. I encourage you to share this program among your friends, and I hope that you have many! I am developing a list of users with the intention of distributing this list among the same. Ultimately, I would like to expand this program to the level of a general study tool containing an opening library and a group of related games with comments. It should be possible to save games, add comments and analysis to games if desired, and to play by MODEM. Of course the first version does not qualify on all fronts. If you would like to encourage me in my efforts then please SEND a donation in any amount along with the following registration information. $30.00 entitles you to one free update, more if you're generous and, of course, inclusion in my list of people interested in playing, to be disseminated with the eventual modem supporting version! To Register ... send your name,address and phone number along with your check or M.O. ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ GO ANALYST REGISTRATION ! │ │ │ │ ┌──────────────────────────────┐ │ │ To..................│ Randall Goodwin │ │ │ │ 428 de l'église │ │ │ │ Verdun Que. Canada H4G 2M4 │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ Name........................................................... │ │ │ │ Address.............................................. APT..... │ │ │ │ City................ (State/Province)......... Country....... │ │ │ │ Postal Code.............. Phone Number........................ │ │ │ │ I desire inclusion in a public list of players [y/n] __ │ │ │ │ Amount of donation ($30.00 recommended) ______________ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ SHAREWARE ______________________________ SHAREWARE is not Freeware.It means that you may use the program and distribute the program but may not charge for the program. If you supply the diskette and copy service you may charge a nominal fee for that service but not for the program itself.If you continue to use this program after a reasonable trial period you should send me something for that honor. Remember that I worked many long days and nights to create the GO ANALYST and that this is how I feed my family. When you register you will receive complete documentation on the note pad, including, how to edit your own read only games. You will also RECEIVE an update to my next version which will have full mouse support and many new features for the notepad-game-editor, Replay, Take back options plus more ! Rest assured that if you like this even a little then you will like the future versions a lot. This program is designed to give a person the ability to play study and annotate his GO games easily this Analysis Tool is capable of helping even very strong players to improve. If you are a good player feel free to contribute games joseki, instructional material or any other literature that may help others to improve Maybe somebody could include some documentation on Chinese Go terms and counting (if I don't first). Please do not change any parts of what I am including and label your contributions. Also to distribute your own games and comments I ask that you REGISTER first ! GO is the oldest board game in the world. It comes from China.It is an essence of yin and yang If we demand too much from our position we are likely to fail, if we demand too little we might not succeed. It is necessary to achieve balance in our thinking so that we may GO properly! LEARNING GO To learn to play run the tutorial which accompanies this program.Type "go -itutor" at the dos prompt. The tutor contains the basic rules and illustrative examples of each. There are illustrative joseki (openings) and tesuji (tactics) in other accompanying files. As well as several complete games. There are many excellent books by THE ISHI PRESS and others. There are also Go Associations in most civilized countries.For more info on these ask when you register. USING THIS PROGRAM. MOVE by typing a letter and number or use the arrow keys to move the stone marker then press enter.ALT_S is used to SETUP Stones, ALT_R to REMOVE stones, ALT_T to TAKE BACK a move, ALT_C to CAPTURE stones, ALT_P to PLACE PRISONERS, ALT_F to FINISH a game and rearrange the stones, ALT_N for the NIFTY NOTE PAD, ALT_X to eXit, ESC will terminate most functions and take you towards the main playing level. HELP is always available by pressing ALT_H and then the command you want help on. In most situations the help is context sensitive so if you want the the main help system press ALT_H again from within the first help screen. These calls are recursive so several escapes may be necessary to get back to where you were when you first called for help. SAVING AND REPLAYING GAMES When we play a game the files GO_GAME.GO and GO_GAME.NOT are left in the current directory. These can be renamed by typing the command "REN GO_GAME.* NEWNAME.*". Alternatively, the program can be started with arguments that state the name of an input file and/or an output file. An input file is designated by -i and an output file is designated by -o So the command "go -iA -oB" will accept the file A.GO as the primary input file and write to the file B.GO as the output file. The corresponding note files will have the names A.NOT and B.NOT respectively. You may step through a replayed game by pressing the space bar. The Page Down Key will advance the game by five moves. The End key will take the game to the last move played and wait for the next move. More Notes on Replaying the GO GAME. You may TAKE BACK moves to the beginning of the game. But prisoners must be replaced manually with ALT_P If you would like to continue the game as a new game from any point just press escape, remember to rename the saved game or it will be overwritten. When a note is reached replay is paused. You may use the same keys to advance as normally (ie. space,page down,end,escape). ALT_S SETUP STONES The purpose of this function is the setup of a position involving handicap stones, a game from a book or changing the color of whose move it is etc. After choosing ALT_S you will RECEIVE a request for the color of stones to setup. You must answer this. If you want to abort just ESCape after you choose the color. Move the stone cursor with the ARROW keys and press ENTER at each location where you want the stones to be placed. At the request for the move color either ESC or ENTER will keep the last move color current. Setup stones are not recorded as moves and therefore cannot be removed by taking back moves SETUP stones can be removed by a normal capture like any other stone or taken back by ALT_R. The actions are saved in the game file like all others. KEYBOARD INPUT Use the arrow keys to move the stone marker to the wished for position then press enter. This will work in all of the functions which expect board coordinates. Sometimes you may choose a function and press enter on the current stone position nothing will happen unless the cursor is moved prior to pressing enter. You may also enter the letter number coordinates if you find that preferable. CAPTURING To Capture Stones all that is needed is to move the cursor to the location of the stones that are to be captured and Press on the enter key for each. It is not necessary to renter ALT_C for each stone. The Prisoner Count is kept by the computer and displayed IN THE lower right corner. When all the captured stones are gone press escape to continue the game or ALT_F to FINISH the game and rearrange the board. PRISONER REPLACEMENT ALT_P may be used to replace captured prisoners. By using the arrow keys to go where to place them. It isn't necessary to reenter ALT_P for each stone. The prisoner count is kept by the computer and displayed in the lower right. The program will change colors if you finish with the prisoners of one color. To change colors or exit the function early press escape. Use ALT_F to FINISH the game and rearrange the board. TAKING BACK MOVES and ACTIONS ALT_T is pressed the last move played is retracted. If it appears that nothing has happened then it is probable that for some reason you had changed whose move it was at that point with the SETUP command. Some actions can not be taken back with this command. That is because not all actions are moves. When you want to take back actions that are not moves you need to use either ALT_F, the Finish Game command, to allow you to rearrange the stones or a combination of the ALT_R, ,the Remove Stones command, and ALT_S, the Setup stones command. Replacing Prisoners is done with the ALT_P command which also decrements the appropriate Prisoner count. ALT_R REMOVING STONES The stones are picked up and removed by moving the cursor to the location of the stone to be removed and then pressing enter. Removed stones are not recorded as moves and therefore cannot be replaced by taking back the last move. They also do not add to the prisoner count. The removed stones action is saved in the game file like all other actions. ALT_F FINISH GAME This is the REARRANGE stones command. At the end of a game we often rearrange the board into territories of 10 or 20 intersections to be able to count more easily. The stones are picked up and placed by moving the cursor to the location of the stone to be moved and then pressing enter. It is now immediately necessary to place the stone in the same manner that it was picked up. You may not exit the function without putting the stone down. EXITING the PROGRAM Press ALT_X respond to the prompt with Y. If you didn't specify an output file with the -O option there will be a game named GO_GAME.GO and a note file GO_GAME.NOT in the default directory. USING THE NOTE PAD The NIFTY NOTE PAD is called by ALT_N, It follows the standard command set of the WORD STAR editor for the most part. CTRL_A moves one word left CTRL_F moves one word right CTRL_T deletes word to right RIGHT ARROW moves right LEFT ARROW moves left UP ARROW moves up DOWN ARROW moves down HOME moves to start of line END moves to end of line ENTER moves to next line DELETE the letter at cursor INSERT puts space at cursor BACKSPACE deletes letter left Whenever a move prompt exists the NOTE PAD may be called. When a game is being replayed the notes will be displayed. The easiest way to stop at just the notes is to choose END to play the entire game. The notes will pause the replay To save your notes use ALT_N just like you did in order to get into the NOTE PAD. ESCAPE aborts the note editing WITHOUT SAVING the note. When a game is being replayed and a prompt for how many moves exists it is possible to insert a note by using ALT_N. When a note is displayed during replay it may be edited by Using ALT_N. If you would would like the first line of note to be Displayed on the top line with an underline put a caret ^ as the first character. It is possible to force an automatic play until the next note by using the character tilde ~ instead. There are two special functions available when a note is being edited. These are the Setup and Remove functions. Called by the command ALT_I for INSERT. These commands will save the Note before their operation, but leave the text intact for further editing. If a note is being re-edited during the replay of a game the re_edit may be aborted by pressing escape. This will leave the original version of the note intact. If it is desired to eliminate the old note entirely one can by pressing ctrl_end at the initial note display prompt.