The Many Faces of Go Former names: Author: License: proprietary Price: 90$/50$ f.upgr. 12) Category: player, editor, tutor. Trainer, engine, client Operating system: Windows Reads format(s):.sgf, Writes format(s):.sgf.go Stable Version: 12.022 (jan.2011) Development status: active Homepage: Can connect itself by GTP: yes Strongest play: 2 dan (sept.' 12) Plays online: (KGS) Infos last checked: The Many Faces of Go is a multiple talented Go program written. It's main features are a strong playing engine, a joseki and fuseki tutor, a problem Go trainer, an editor and an IGS client. The complete overview of features can be found on Table of contents. Download, License Many Faces of Go version 11 is available as a fully functioning download demo from the trading centre here: The demo is time-limited, and can be unlocked by returning to the trading centre to purchase an unlock key.
Version 12 of Many Faces with the 2008 MC engine is available for free trial download and purchase for Windows (or Mac/Linux with Wine) from. It requires a registration code for copy protection but is licensed for all the computers the purchaser uses. See for current version information. Having been sold commercially since 1988 by, Many Faces of Go has by far the greatest longevity of current Go software packages. Its development has slowed in recent years though, with Many Faces of Go 11.0 released in June 2002. Version 10 was released almost five years prior to that. Regardless, it is a very complete package that offers:.
May 30, 2017 - If one is trying to learn the game of Go, I think Many Faces is good for people. Up from around 23kyu with 4/5 handicap to 12 kyu with no handicap, so I. If you get obsessed with Go games and all you have is Mac OS X, you. The Many Faces Of Go V12.010 By Tsrh was added to DownloadKeeper this week and last updated on 03-Jan-2019. New downloads are added to the member section daily and we now have 439,696 downloads for our members, including: TV, Movies, Software, Games, Music and More.
A strong Go playing program that was 2002 World Computer Go Champion, 1998 World Computer Go Champion, and ten time US Computer Go Champion. Its strength can be tuned from level 1 to level 10. All board sizes from 7x7 to 19x19 are supported.
Many Faces plays fairly quickly, even at the level 10 maximum, so that you are almost never waiting on it. In simple tactical positions it will often respond almost instantly. client support.
Excellent SGF editing functionality, with easy commenting, annotation, and addition of variations. Going through commented games is similarly easy, as you can press shift down arrow to skip ahead to the next comment or variation. Both.sgf and.go file formats are supported.
No game database per se, but a large number of games are included: 391 commented pro games, another 1369 uncommented pro games, and 1218 commented games from the. Two Fuseki libraries: one collected from about 5700 pro games and another that additionally includes opening moves from around 29,000 strong amateur games.
At each stage of the Fuseki it will display the overall winning percentage for those who played that move, and the rank of the strongest player to use it. A hand-crafted Joseki database with around 45,000 moves (I'm unsure if this includes duplicates for different orientations). The fact that it is hand-crafted distinguishes it from Joseki study in other packages, which is both good and bad.
Certain moves in the database are categorized as 'bad move' or 'trick play', when appropriate. Over 2000 Go problems at all difficulty levels from 30 kyu on up, including all problems from Vol.
While solving problems, it will automatically keep track of how often you're missing problems and adjust the difficulty accordingly when selecting the next problem to solve. The problems are also shown in random orientations. There's an option to check for and download new problems from the Internet, but. I've never seen any new problems posted in the past three years and am not really expecting to see any in the future. A life and death problem solving mode ('Computer Solves Problem'), where you can specify a group of stones in a position and have it solve for their life or death. Variations are added to the game record for each position analyzed, along with the chances of success in that variation. Many Faces of Go was my primary SGF editor for a long time as it is very capable in that respect, but I have lately preferred the freeware software.
One area Many Faces of Go beats out all other packages I've tried though is in game scoring, where it shows remarkable ability for correctly marking live and dead groups without user input. Only rarely do I have to correct mistakes in its life and death evaluation for game scoring, which is very convenient.
I also use the problem solving mode quite often. The only weakness I've noticed with this is that there is no way to go through all problems at a given difficulty level, sequentially or otherwise, if for example you'd like to start at the bottom and work your way up rather than letting it select problems for you from different difficulty levels.
The 'Computer Solves Problem' mode has also been highly useful for analyzing positions from games where I feel like there's a possibility that a group can be forcefully killed (or made to live), but I'm having difficulty finding the sequence to do it. Many Faces of Go is a well crafted, mature software package that I have never had a single problem with, have been using for years, and can highly recommend to anyone. Other software will exceed it in certain areas, but the overall package is a good value. The price is $90 currently, and can be purchased directly from or any of its distributors. The most direct competitor to Many Faces of Go is likely the competitively priced:Combo package, which covers a similarly wide range of areas., a 9x9 only version of Many Faces of Go, is also available as a free download (and demo of the full package). Chris Goldsmith 6K I have MFG version 10, and it's a very good way of learning to play the game, offering a tireless and patient opponent. I currently have it on level 10 and give it 3-4 stones, but now the cracks are beginning to show.
Well not really cracks. More things that I've realised about go. Many Faces seems to be good at building influence, and life & death - it still wriggles out from me occaisionally - but perhaps I'm overattacking.
It doesn't do too well at using the influence it's built. I think it has a better editor than the other playing programs I've used, but I still prefer CGoban2 for editing and viewing games - I like the tree view which I find intuitive. Though CGoban2 doesn't handle.go files.
I don't know much about version 11, but might be looking into an upgrade soon. Thanks for a great program.
BTW I started playing go when I downloaded this (together with Charles's 'Play the Game' book) was an excellent introduction to the game. 8k I have had a number of tussles with MFoG 11, and find it to be effective at exploiting weaknesses in shape around the edges. I am normally disappointed to lose against the engine at level 10, but tend to win only by between 5 and 20 points on an even game with Komi. It has very good support for different rulesets, handicap stones (up to over 20 stones) and different board sizes. It also has an excellent life and death problem section, a comprehensive joseki study section (though I haven't compared this to ), and has a good library of professional games to view through, include a number with comments. All in all, an excellent piece of software to add to your go collection up to probably mid-range single digit kyu, and probably the second strongest Go engine I've had the fun of playing (behind, which I would estimate is only between one and two stones stronger).
It's a really good program, but the Version 12 copy protection is annoying. It needs a code for a generated hardware ID, so after each windows reinstall oder hardware change you need a new code. It's hurting the honest user and does not prevent people to create keygens for cracking it. I've decided not to buy it for this reason and I am sticking with for now. Mailing your details to vendor every now and then is a problem? Takes full 10 seconds of your life.
And is lot stronger than gnu go.Gnugo 3.8 is really weak, I could beat it with white after playing go 3 weeks. There really isn't any point in playing a computer program weaker than you, because you just need to use the same weaknesses again and again to win, so you don't progress. If you don't want to pay (do you really change computer so often that it can be a problem???), use Fuego that is probably 4 stones stronger than Gnugo.
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I'll buy Many Faces as soon as I am stronger than Fuego (2 stones to go). Having to ask a new code every year cannot seriously be considered a problem if you care at all about go, and such a strong program is worth the money.
Face ID has been an absolute joy to use since it launched with the iPhone X. The technology is fast, seamless and, most importantly, highly secure — a major improvement over fingerprint-based Touch ID systems in use on iPhone 8, iPad and MacBook Pro.
One of its weaknesses, however, is that users can only set up one face (their own) as the handset's registered user. Touch ID, on the other hand, allows users to store up to five fingerprints, a feature some owners use to share their device with family members. With iOS 12, Apple has added an option in Face ID & Passcode settings labeled 'Set Up an Alternate Appearance.'
It's described as an option to enroll an alternate look, one that complements the main face that's assigned to unlock a target iPhone. Like multiple fingerprints with Touch ID, support for two 'looks' on iPhone X is a perfect workaround for adding a second registered user. It should be noted that the feature is technically a fix for iPhone X owners who run into trouble with Face ID, not official support for multiple users. For example, the 'alternate look' option might be used to compensate for extremely strong prescription lenses that distort the laser dot pattern emitted by TrueDepth's vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL, which in turn causes the authentication process to fail. That said, we were able to set up Face ID with two users, a woman and a man, who look nothing alike. The process completed without a hitch and both users now have the ability to unlock the same iPhone X using Face ID.
If you end up resetting Face ID, it's worth noting that both faces will need to be registered again to work properly.