Our Go board recognition ships in SmartGo One 3.3

SmartGo One 3.3 is out, and the lab is proud of one part of it in particular. Point the camera at a Go board, or import a photo of one, and SmartGo One turns it into a game record (SGF) you can study, replay, and share. It reads the diagrams in Go books too, and it doesn't stop at the position: where a diagram numbers its moves, it recovers the move sequence.

That recognition comes from Pragmaphilia Labs. We built it to read boards and book diagrams quickly and accurately, and licensed it exclusively to SmartGo, arguably the best Go software there is. Anders Kierulf announced the release, with online play through OGS (online-go.com) as its other headline, on the SmartGo blog. Photo import is part of the SmartGo One Pro subscription.

The same technology also makes printed Go books much faster to bring into SmartGo's interactive book format. The release adds two free, Creative Commons books, Relentless and Shape Up!, as a first taste.

Publishers and authors: if you have Go books you'd like to see in SmartGo, we can convert them at a fraction of what it used to cost. Get in touch.