WinHonte 2.01

What’s new in WinHonte 2.01?

We have improved many aspects of WinHonte’s play, in particular

· Ko fighting

· Capture races

· Connecting and cutting

· Life and death

User interface improvements:

· Number of levels extended to 6.

· Lower level playing strength has been reduced to a more meaningful “beginner’s level”

· Variable board size: play on any square board from 9 x 9 to 19 x 19

· Improved result information at the end of a game

· Quick navigation: Buttons for jumping ten moves forward or back

· Pass button in the toolbar

WinHonte 2.01 Trial version is freeware, downloadable from this site. The trial version reverts to playing on Level 1 after 100 moves. Furthermore, the distribution contains a limited help-file. Full help file can be viewed here.

WinHonte has been tested on Win98, ME, 2000 and XP. For full effect we recommend a 1GHz processor and 128 MB RAM. There is however no reason not to try the free Trial version to check how your computer works with WinHonte!

WinHonte 1.03

WHAT'S NEW OVER VERSION 0.94

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WinHonte 1.03 has several improvements over the previous version:

Playing strength improvements:

- Building and defending territory

- Endgame play

- Life and death reading

- Capture races

- Connectivity

- Fuseki

- And more

User interface improvements:

- It looks better, and appearance can be customized

- Full SGF viewing capacity

- Some SGF editing (adding/removing of variations and comments)

- Area and territory scoring, can be overridden by the user

- Help files