Go at Ease is a multimedia introduction to Go from Yutopian Enterprises, aimed towards children and beginners. The game is taught through animations and small cartoons. As reviewers of this program, we have been playing Go for around 4 months our son who is nine and a half years old didn't have any Go knowledge at all before he was introduced to Go at Ease. The minimum requirements for the CPU are a 486 MHz with 8MB of RAM, which most PCs fulfil these days. We tested the program on a 450 MHz Pentium machine running Windows 95.
Installation is straightforward.
If you are using Windows 95 the program should initiate automatically, otherwise you have to run a 'Set-up' command, which is only installing some shortcuts therefore you have to run the program directly from the CD ROM or alternatively copy the contents of the CD ROM to the hard disk. When intuition fails, which it does now and then for adults, the built in help function offers basic, but in most cases sufficient, assistance. The first lesson is a set of video sequences telling us about the origin of Go, and the benefits of learning to play the game. The next nine chapters gently teach you about the game with lots of pictures, video sequences and small funny cartoons without having the cartoons stealing the show. All of us had a very good time going through the lessons.