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  Upgrade your tactics at half price: “Cross-Cut Workshop” and “Key Concepts in Life and Death: Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques” by Richard Hunter are on sale until December 27, a steal at just $2.99 each. Learn how to handle the dreaded cross-cut, and start recognizing killable shapes and under-the-stones situations. https://gobooks.com/#sale #SmartGo #baduk #gobooks

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  Upgrade your tactics at half price: “Cross-Cut Workshop” and “Key Concepts in Life and Death: Inside Moves and Under the Stones Techniques” by Richard Hunter are on sale until December 27, a steal at just $2.99 each. Learn how to handle the dreaded cross-cut, and start recognizing killable shapes and under-the-stones situations. https://gobooks.com/#sale The discounted price is available both when buying directly on the web as well as when buying in-app in SmartGo One. #SmartGo #baduk #gobook...

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  A SmartGo fan sent me a link to Jerry Pournelle’s article in 1985 BYTE magazine, fun reminder. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-12/page/n329/mode/2up It was great to meet Jerry Pournelle on his tour of ETH Zürich and give him a demo of the Smart Go Board – more than 40 years ago! #SmartGo #baduk 

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  SmartGo One 2.8 drastically improves Hint: it now highlights bad moves, and lets you see the principal variation expected for each move (just tap to select the move bubble). Joseki analysis now also shows a scrollable list of choices, not just top 3, a bug with sharing SGF files to SmartGo has been fixed, and more. #SmartGo #baduk

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  Another thousand games added to the pro games collection in SmartGo One, for a total of 137,155 games. https://smartgo.com #SmartGo #GoGoD

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  GoGoD pro games collection in SmartGo One updated to 138,161 games, adding more than a thousand games. Enjoy! https://smartgo.com #SmartGo #GoGoD Version 3.0 of SmartGo One is close: May 21 release if things go well.

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  SmartGo One gets a major redesign for version 3: https://smartgo.blog/2026/05/21/smartgo-one-three/ The game view has been redesigned from scratch – the blog post shows before/after screenshots and explains the main changes. #SmartGo

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  With the addition of “Volume 4: Ghosts in the Machine”, the “AlphaGo to Zero” series by Michael Redmond 9P and Chris Garlock is now complete. Michael Redmond discusses the twenty AlphaGo Zero self-play games, explaining how AlphaGo Zero's style differs from both human play and earlier AlphaGo versions while revealing the strategic ideas that continue to shape modern Go. #AlphaGo #SmartGo #GoBooks #Baduk https://gobooks.com/books-by-series.html#alpha-go-to-zero Available in the SmartGo...

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  Not much has been happening with the Windows version of SmartGo for the last 6 years. Still nothing happening, sorry. Time to make it free. https://smartgo.com/windows.html #SmartGo #Baduk #GoGame

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  The GoGoD game collection in SmartGo One has been updated: 138,161 → 139,235 Find new games by your favorite players to study before the Go Congress. #SmartGo #GoGoD #Baduk #GoGame

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  John Fairbairn has been busy: more than 140,000 pro games in SmartGo One. I’ve been busy too. The games/players switch at the top makes the Players tab obsolete, leaving room for a new tab... #SmartGo #baduk

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  New features and bonus content in SmartGo One 3.3: * OGS – Online Go Server (already in 3.2, but much improved) * Convert images to SGF * Two free books: Relentless and Shape Up! More information in my blog post: https://smartgo.blog/2026/10/06/ogs-photos-to-sgf/ #SmartGo #GoBooks #baduk #OGS

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  Coming soon in SmartGo One: option to turn on Circled Move Numbers in books. #SmartGo #baduk #GoBooks

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  Richard Bozulich, founder of Kiseido and author of many English-language go books, passed away on March 9. It was an honor to meet him and work with him on a number of book projects. He will be greatly missed – his books will live on. https://www.facebook.com/groups/go.igo.weiqi.baduk/posts/10164968619191514/ #baduk #gobooks