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Jo-Go
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Version
1.01
Jo-Go is the ultimate tactical board game. If you like
chess, you'll love Jo-Go. If you hate chess, you'll
still love Jo-Go. The game is deceptively simple, yet
complex enough to stimulate your visual skills for
ages to come. There's even a handicapping system to
let beginners play advanced players and compensate
both fairly. Fun, stimulating, and educational, Jo-Go
is perfect for visual skill development with the
pattern recognition used in the moves.
Some believe it to be the perfect "off-season" trainer
for games such as chess since it teaches you to
position your pieces for both offensive and defensive
action and quickly shows you the consequences of a
misplaced capture of an opponent's piece. But it's
much more than that. It's a thinking game that will
get your right and left brain working together.
Both players receive eight pieces with 1-5 beads on
each piece's pole. Each piece moves in a set pattern.
If your opponent passes one of their pieces over you
in the course of it's assigned movement pattern, you
lose 1 bead. If they land on you, you lose 2 beads and
you switch places if your piece still has beads
remaining. If the players are at different playing
abilities, you can even handicap the more experienced
player by giving the newcomer 1 or 2 extra beads on
each piece at the start of a game.
The computer has 3 levels of difficulty to play
against and with the unique handicapping system you
can try out the harder levels with a little extra help
in the form of extra beads for your pieces. Beginners
can use this system to play advanced players by taking
an extra bead and then adjusting the ratings
calculation as if the player with more beads was
actually higher ranked to begin with. This is featured
in the PBEM (play-by-email) system. Come sign up for a
free account today and play anyone in the world. Jo-
Go really is a better game!
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