Tsumego Pro (Go problems) Wiki

I’ve been watching this anime that inspired me to try go a little bit so I decided to download this app, Although I don’t really know much about go but this app made it very fun trying to solve the problems. When I open the app and try to solve a problems after a few minutes of trying I start to feel like I achieved something when I’m a to solve it even though it is my first time trying it and downloading a go app I highly recommended it.

I am just learning Go. After about 4 months, I felt I had a better solution on one problem than the developer. So I Googled a complaint and found a forum with a dozen or so people who agreed with me. What a great discussion. Nobody said anything nasty just normal comments between friends that did not know each other. You could tell they all loved the app because no one said a bad word about the developer they disagreed with.

Provides challenging little snippets of Go to wrack your brain and develop your tactical skills. Each puzzle takes only a few moves to complete, but you may need a few minutes to work out the correct sequence on your own if you don’t use the hints. Occasionally it is unclear why the game marks my preferred move as wrong, but it is probably my lack of experience

I’ve been learning and playing Go for a few months, with moderate success at improving through sheer play and even reading some books. I started using this app in earnest a few days ago and my skills have improved immensely. There is no better resource that I have found for growing Go skill once you have the fundamentals down.

Getting back into the swing of Go it is rather nice. The only point of frustration is the problem's solution often isn't apparent. Sometimes a Ko is a solution, sometimes it isn't. Furthermore in the larger corner problems it is sometimes unclear which group should be attacked. Other then this, and these points are rarer it is nice. I use it daily.

Overall, this is a great app. I was recently introduced to Go, and this is a great way to practice. I appreciate the app includes multiple ways that a player can approach the problem. The app would get five stars, if it included a little information about the principles of Go and why one solution is correct and the other solutions are not. Now that I have done some more research into basic Go principles, I am able to get a lot more out of the practice problems. Overall, great app! Thank you!

I’ve had this for a year or so now and am quite a big fan of it. It has a good amount of practice problems and the best part is the daily problems that are sent to you! My only complaints are three: 1) The harder problems are not explained in detail. This can present a problem if you are just starting off on more difficult problems and are not sure why a certain move is incorrect. 2) Problems are not always graded well. I’ve seen some pretty easy hard problems that are solved almost instantly and yet some medium, or even easy, problems that are quite difficult! 3) Fortunately, this is only a rare problem but, sometimes, there can be more than one solution yet the app only accepts one way of solving it. This is quite rare though, so it’s not a huge issue. Other than these issues, it is an excellent app!

A steady supply of problems to challenge, and a moves guide is available if you’re not sure what to do. My only complaint is the lack of any explanatory notes, either in the way of objectives for problems or explanations as to why a given problem may be “solved.” If, like me, you’re new to go, some problems in this app will be very hard to understand. Best used in conjunction with other resources to help understand the game.

I am very interested in Go and found this to be a pretty decent place to start. This might just be a personal problem, but I feel if there was a way to explain solutions instead of giving the answers when using the hint button, this would be perfect. I know Go can get really complicated with solutions but if just a general reason for the hinted move was explained it would help lots with he learning process. Still love it!!!!!

This is the best available tsumego app, but it’s not perfect. Some of the problems have incorrect answers and others don’t accept minor valid variations. Sometimes ko is allowed as a solution, sometimes it isn’t. I keep getting repeat problems in “Progress Mode” that have errors and it’s getting annoying to see the same few problems over and over at the 5k level because of this. SUGGESTION: Allow players to “suspend” certain problems in Progress Mode so that they won’t appear for a long time, like 2 weeks or 1 month. That would go a long ways in alleviating my frustrations with this app. Overall, it’s the best tsumego app currently out there. But it seems like this a market ripe for a better tsumego app that alleviates these weaknesses.

There haven’t been any bugs and technical issues. I really like the problems and the clues to tell you if a move was right or wrong- super helpful for me as I’m learning the game. The only thing I’d prefer is if there was an option to change the size of the board and to actually be able to play a go game from scratch.

First off: this app has not crashed on me or spammed me with excessive adds or notifications. That’s enough to get three stars from me. It also has daily updates for new problems The problems don’t seem to be organized in a way that’s meaningful in terms of difficulty. The easy problems don't seem any easier or harder than the basic problems or the intermediate ones. It does say when a move is “wrong” or “right” but there are no explanations why or anything like that. If you know what you're doing and just want a bunch of problems, maybe this is fun. If you're trying to learn, maybe try another option first.

I saw some playing the game and was curious enough to find an app to see how the game is played. I love the simple problems to solve, and the daily updates, but still have no idea what the rules of the game are that govern the strategy and make one move wrong and another right. I kept thinking I would figure out by seeing what works, but I haven’t yet. I ordered a rule book, but it would be helpful to have explanations-for good moves and bad. It seems that if there a problems to solve, the problems have solutions based in rules and strategy and it would be a great learning tool to have bad moves explained. I’m just spitting in the wind right now, landing by chance on a good move after several wrong moves with no idea why. Every problem is hard without knowing the underlying rules and strategy, so advancing from one level to another is meaningless to me right now. This app is only for people who know the game, but not people trying to learn.

Tsumego Pro is ill-equipped for novices to the heuristics of the game. What this is good at doing is providing exercises and telling you either “Solved” or “Wrong”. What this is REALLY bad at doing is telling you why you are wrong. An opponent can tell me that I won or lost a battle. A teacher helps me understand why I won or lost. This is not a tool to help you learn strategies or heuristics. It’s just a puzzle book. And by merely saying “Solved” or “Wrong”, without any explanation, all you have is Trial and Error, 99 ways not to win, and uselessly-memorized patterns without heuristics or learning that will be worthless against an actual player.