[OLPC-Games] Play Go issues for laptop

[Edward Cherlin]

I am a go player and programmer, and I have been involved in PlayGo
from the beginning. I am also the one communicating with AGA about
PlayGo and about our plans for multilingual content for teaching Go.
Some years ago I worked on a multilingual go glossary in Unicode,
adding various writing systems to the ASCII original.

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Paul Barchilon <shimari at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.

You can download the latest version. I'll get you instructions offline.

> 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.

Thank you.

>  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.

We will be very interested to hear from you on this.

> 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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