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NeXTGo version 2.2.2 is now available for anonymous ftp from <dehn.mth.pdx.edu>
in the /pub/go directory.  Here is a list of the features and improvements:

*	The gnugo computer go playing algorithm built-in as an (admittedly
	weak) computer opponent.  NeXTGo allows you to play the computer as
	either color or allows you to watch the computer play itself.  You
	can also have two humans play each other.

*	A built-in client (using sockets to establish the connection) for the
	Internet Go Server.  The client allows you to observe games (only one
	at a time, currently) and play games against others attached to the
	server.  One feature of the observation feature, is that by clicking
	the observe button, a browser containing those games currently being
	played appears and the game to be observed is chosen by simply clicking
	on the cell containing that game.

*	A smart-go file playback feature.  While NeXTGo is not as fully
	featured nor as fast as using Adrian Mariano's mgt program, it can
	play back any smart-go format file.  You can also save any game, either
	a local game against another human opponent or the computer opponent
	or a game you either played or observed on the Internet Go Server to
	a smart-go file.  This file can then be replayed either in NeXTGo
	or on any of the other smart-go compatible programs (such as mgt).

As a wish list for the future:

*	Support for head-to-head play with someone else running NeXTGo on
	the network (as in GoWild or inetgo).  This would allow two individuals
	to play directly without going through the Internet Go Server.

*	Support for attachments to the Internet Go Server through intermediate
	connections such as modems.

*	Support for head-to-head play over a modem connection.

Of course, anyone wishing to work on any of these things is more than welcome
to do so.

NOTE:  The GNU copyleft applies to all aspects of this program.

--John Neil
December 10, 1992

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John Neil, Graduate Teaching Assistant           e-mail:  neil@math.mth.pdx.edu
Mathematics Department                         NeXTMail:  neil@dehn.mth.pdx.edu
Portland State University
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