The gobans in the Go Center playing area have been significantly updated. Changes:

• Undo of self-atari now works.
• Cushions now automatically focus your camera on the goban.
• Area scoring (Chinese style) now compensates for handicap.
• Several minor fixes in wording of messages the goban says.
• Scoring choice at start of game: Area or Territory.
• Games can optionally be “teaching” games.
• Games results are sent to our web server. SGF coming really soon!
• Games can be optionally “unrecorded” games, which aren’t sent.
• New configuration layout (see below)
• Players need only touch one set of configuration stones to start the game (and should do so after setting the configuration options.

Notes

* When on the cushions, you can use opt/alt-click to move your camera elsewhere, then the escape key to return to the board.
* Area scoring uses Chinese counting: territory + stones on board. Handicaps are compensated, and outcomes are the same as AGA scoring.
* Territory scoring uses Japansese counting: territory – prisoners. However, the gobans do not implement Japanese rules. In particular, eyes in seki are scored.
* Teaching games allow either player to play the moves, so a teacher can show a whole sequence.