About

3D Tashoku Go is a generalization of the game go. For an explanation of the original game, visit Sensei's Library.

In this version of the game, more than two colors can play, and the board can have any topology (i.e., not just a regular grid). However, the same simple rules from the original game still apply: no group may remain on the board unless it has liberties, and no board state may be repeated.

The game also includes an AI. However, since the AI was written to work with boards of any topology it can't use specialized knowledge about joseki, etc. In other words, don't expect too much from it on a 9x9 or 19x19 grid!

Download

Binary and source versions are available for Mac and Windows, source available for Linux. Since the game was written in 2003, graphics hardware requirements should be fairly minimal.

Mac (PowerPC) - 189 kB Windows - 496 kB Windows source - 397 kB Mac source - 184 kB Linux source - 118 kB

The source code is licensed under the GPL but much of it (esp. the GUI) was written in a hurry for a class project so watch out! It's pretty messy. You'll need GL and GLUT (and possibly GLEW) to compile.

History

A nascent three-player version of this game was played on the 6th floor of Hendrick House in the spring of 2003 by Andrew Badr, Keenan Crane, and Paul Nepywoda using pennies as the third player's stones. (That game predates even the Sensei's Library page on multi-color go!) In the summer of 2003, however, this friendly fellowship turned fierce as Badr and Crane pitted machine against machine in a battle of digital wits: two mighty go AIs were born!! Though in the prelude Badr's pernicious python would often prevail, it was Crane's topological terror that would terminally triumph!!! In fall of 2003 Crane enrolled in CS 318 and the ghost was given a shell (a graphical interface, that is). Alas, attrition is the slayer of all beasts: once the soft creature had spared its master from academic agony, its bits were left out to rot for the next four years. (During that time it seems someone else had a very similar idea!) Finally, on a lazy weekend in the spring of 2007 the thing was resurrected to receive dulcorate duplication over the digital domain.

The basic design for game scoring is stolen from the KGS client.

Screenshots

Another quality product from The Keenan Group