Gobandroid Go Material

Gobandroid is a

( aka GO-Board ) for Android to learn and play the beautiful ancient

(weiqi / wei-chi in Chinese, igo in Japanese, baduk in Korean)

Go originated in China

The game is noted for being

despite its relatively

. It has been claimed that Go is the most complex game in the world due to its

in individual games. [1] [2]

Solve

( Go Problems are called Tsumego or life&dead problems - similar to chess problems)

10 Tsumegos in easy, intermediate and hard from gogameguru included

Ability to automatically download >300 Tsumegos

Review games of go ( SGF Format reader )

Included commented and uncommented pro-games featuring googles deepmind alphago, lee sedol and many more

Record Games ( or use the phone/tablet as a board - incl SGF writer )

TV-Mode ( automatic replay of games - mainly for GoogleTV )

Play a go game against GnuGo ( extra install needed )

Share and receive shared games

Get information about certain go terms like Miai, Shape, Joseki

Links to some nice go related videos like the trailer to surrounding game or some tutorials to go

Ability to bookmark games

Support default sizes 19x19, 13x13, 9x9

alternative sizes between 2x2 and 23x23 ( But then no handicap support)

Edit positions ( mark-positions / freely set stones )

Available in >10 Languages ( Please join the translators at https://www.transifex.com/ligi/gobandroid to add/complete yours )

If you find a bug please email me or file a bug in the issue tracker on github. I can't contact you via the Android-Market comments system to fix the problem

This app is Open-Source - the Source-Code is on github [3]- Patches/Contributions welcome! You can also find this project on googleplus: https://plus.google.com/106767057593220295403

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

[2] http://www.usgo.org/resources/topten.html

[3] http://github.com/ligi/gobandroid