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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.games.go
Subject: Comments on Macintosh Go program...
Message-ID: <2013@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 14:05:55 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 14:05:55 1986
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First I'd like to congratulate the author for a fine visual representation of
the board and stones.  There are some things that I would like to see cleaned
up, though, to make the game much more useful.

(1) There should be a utility for taking back the last move, maybe to a depth
of six moves back.

(2) The log utility should not work as it does.  Currently, if you want to
continue a game logged previously and keep logging it, there is no way to do
it with the same log file (that I have figured out, anyway).  When a log file
is established, there should be an option to completely record the current
state of the game rather than automatically just starting from scratch.  When
a log file is read in, you should be forced to specify exactly how many moves
into the game (default: the whole way) to auto-play to; then by default you
should be logging the game to that same file.  To make life easier for the
logging function, why not just ask when exitting the game whether the current
board should be saved?

(3) The default game option should be human vs. human rather than computer
vs. computer.

(4) The debugging display options should be removed from the distributed
version of the game as the output is pretty cryptic.

(5) There should be an option to display the number of stones captured thus
far by each side.  An end-of-game score counting option would be nice, but
might be a bit tough to code.

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