Go Books

Ну очень дорогие книги. Отвратная навигация внутри книги, добавьте оглавления. Катастрофически не хватает книг на русском языке!!!

Books are SO much easier to read! Sequences can be played and problems can be solved interactively. I hope there will be more books, especially from Mastering the Basics and Get Strong at Go series.

No other way to get your hands on such a collection of Go-related books

Мне настолько нравится приложение, что пришлось покупать себе iPad. Очень сожалею, что нет версии под Андроид.

Отличное приложение!

The app is impressively well designed. It has every feature I can want for reading Go books. I love the interactive Go diagrams and the selection is very good. I’m impressed they managed to get so many titles in. The prices for the books are reasonable too, for the great quality and amount of work they’ve put in. This is a dream app and is obviously made by a Go player.

This is a fantastic app. Now has over 100 books covering the range from complete beginner to high dan players. Books from all the major publishers. Also out-of-print books and exclusively digital books. Prices are typically half printed books. Not just pdf scans of printed books like go books on iBooks, Amazon, and the Nihon Kiin's ebook app, but interactive diagrams in which you can play out the moves. New features are constantly being added by this active developer. With a free sample chapter of every book, this free app is something every go player should Get.

I have a few paper Go books, and never thought that I would actually prefer electronic books to paper ones, in spite of the convenience of weight and instant download. But For Go books it is a huge advance! The books aren’t simple transcriptions of the original, they have been painstakingly made interactive. If books of Go problems, for example, you click on the board diagrams where you think the stones should go, it plays the subsequent move(s) and when done it tells you whether you got it right with a tick above the board diagram. You then turn the page for the explanation. Similarly, for books describing games, the boards replay a group of moves, which is much better than trying to imagine it where the last few moves are already present but with numbers on them. Lastly, the range of books available for purchase is extensive, growing all the time, of great quality, and actually pretty cheap. Deep thanks to the author for making these available. If only we could get such great book coverage in English of Shogi!

Smartgo books are the answer to prayer! If you are a commuting office worker and want to study Go this is App is essential. The range of books available is growing all the time and caters for all levels. It is a joy and liberating to be able to study tsumegos and master games on a virtual Go board while on the move. This App is a wonderful gift to all Go players anywhere and everywhere! Highly recommended!

This review is re-submitted as it applies to version 1.6. This is an excellent app not just because of the healthy and growing range of books, but for the active way in which they are presented. By way of example, the 'Five hundred and one tesuji problems' book by Richard Bozulich allows the reader to enter his guess at the correct sequence of moves. Each correct move or deviation is indicated, so it is very much like the book becomes a Tsumego application all on its own. The most recent addition is the well respected "Invincible" collection of Shusaku games. The large paperback book was a collectors item, but suffered in the separation of the narrative the diagrams, requiring much page jumping. In addition, most board diagrams were heavily populated with moves. In the SmartGo Books version, there are fewer moves per diagram, and the narrative sits with the diagram. And the general paperback problem with many moves per diagram is neatly resolved in all books here with the provision of navigation tools, allowing moves to played back and worth with ease. The author is forging a new route for Go books with this app, and those who dismiss it as a 'free app but you must buy books' fail to see what is being achieved here. This is much more than Kindle for Go. Try it and see for free - there are sample pages for all the books. Highly recommended.