Smart Go Inc.

Software for the game of Go. Go is a 4000-year-old board game that originated in China.

It’s played on a 19x19 board, and the two players take turns placing stones in an effort to surround territory. The game is often known as igo in Japan, as wei ch'i in China, and as baduk in Korea.

10/30/2026

SmartGo is ready for the iPhone Duo.

https://smartgo.blog/2026/10/29/smartgo-on-duo/

10/07/2026

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/

09/26/2026

Two books about Tesuji by Go Pro Yeonwoo are now available at gobooks.com and in SmartGo One. More details here: https://newsletter.gobooks.com/archive/book-news-46/

09/25/2026

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...

07/16/2026

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.

07/09/2026

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

07/08/2026

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.

https://gobooks.com/books-by-series.html -go-to-zero

Available in the SmartGo One app and as EPUB.

06/19/2026

The static versions of go book EPUBs now use JPEG images for greater compatibility. Read about the change in the newest Go Books Newsletter (and sign up for the very infrequent emails while you're there):

https://newsletter.gobooks.com/archive/book-news-44/

While I would not recommend it, you can now read Invincible on the tiny Xteink 3.

Also, significantly improved layout of go books in SmartGo One.

05/21/2026

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.

05/13/2026

GoGoD pro games collection in SmartGo One updated to 138,161 games, adding more than a thousand games. Enjoy!

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Version 3.0 of SmartGo One is close: May 21 release if things go well.

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