[OLPC-Games] Play Go issues for laptop

[Paul Barchilon]

Hello to all who are working on this project, and thank you for the  
great service you are providing to kids around the world!  I am the  
Vice President of the American Go Foundation, a charitable  
organization that provides free Go equipment to children and teachers  
in schools.  I spend a great deal of time teaching children, and am an  
active Go player and organizer on the national scene.  It has come to  
my attention that there are a number of problems with the Play Go  
program, and also that a set of rules that are appropriate for  
children may well be needed.

I am not a computer programmer, and do not have one of the laptops, so  
I haven't actually seen the Play Go program at work.  I did ask a  
child who has one, and plays Go, to tell me how it seemed.  He may  
have an older version of the software, but if his observations are  
correct it sounds like there are some serious issues.  I would be very  
glad to help solve some of these problems if you would like some  
input.  As I said, I can't program, but I can tell whoever is writing  
the software what the problems are.  Please feel free to contact me  
directly at shimari at comcast.net.  If you would like a rule set  
designed for children, please let me know and we will be happy to  
write one for you.  You can see one example of our approach to this on  
our youth go website, which is here:  http://tigersmouth.org/viewpage.php?page_id=8

Thank you so much, and I hope to hear from whoever is programming Play  
Go.

Sincerely,

Paul Barchilon,
American Go Foundation

http://tigersmouth.org
http://agfgo.org


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