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Cho U’s 4 by 4 Go Puzzle app for iPhone and iPad


4.8 ( 9008 ratings )
Games Education Educational Puzzle
Developer: The Nihon Ki-in
2.99 USD
Current version: 1.3, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 18 Apr 2012
App size: 68.03 Mb

Cho U’s 4 by 4 Go Game is the application that can be enjoyed by all ages.
The problems created by Cho U (Professional Go player) are categorized into four level of difficulty for from beginners to advanced players.

■Set up for design
The design of the stone is a cute black Cat or a white Dog. When you get Atari (*a stone or chain of stones has only one liberty, and may be captured on the next move if not given one or more additional liberties.), the stone will change the original face to a scary face. If you surround stone(s) of your opponent, it will be changed to the happy smile face. It should be fun to watch them. You can set up to return to the original face of the stone. The new designs for the stone will be given to you when you purchase additional problems.

■Mode for Story
In this mode, you will play a game on a story of a black cat. You can master a rule of go game and some techniques naturally with meeting and chatting with rich characters of dogs in the story.

■Mode for Study
In this mode, you can try the same problem again until you fully understand it.

■Mode for Challenge
You will answer 10 problems and get scored based on your spent time and the degree of difficulty of the problems. You can check all of your performances on a graph.
The score rank can be seen in Game Center in iPad/iPhone and you can compete with other players in the world.

■Mode for Non-Stop
You can play a game continuously if the life points are not used and you answer within a time limit. You will get some special effects for the designs of your stone.
The score rank can be seen in Game Center in iPad/iPhone and you can compete with other players in the world.

Latest reviews of Cho U’s 4 by 4 Go Puzzle app for iPhone and iPad

Great app, even for single kyu players
Im kgs 6k. However I just bought for my daughter, this app shows me great suggestion about my weakness for corner based problems with ko. Problems requires more than 5 moves reading in "むずかしい" mode, they must strengthen my reading skill. Meanwhile some problems end up halfway in their sequence of moves. It would be unkind for beginners since they might not understand why their moves are correct or wrong. I hope these explanation would be improved in future version/release. 日本棋院ご担当者様、 初級から上級まで楽しめる、大変よいアプリと思います。複数言語対応後、海外圏へご紹介になるのを楽しみにしております。
Great app
A fun story, a great game, and more challenging than it has a right to be. I will learn it if it kills me.
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