Life In 19x19

Anyone who is a half-decent programmer would say that the Tygem and Oro clients are abominations. Actually, if someone who you think is a half-decent programmer tells you that the Tygem and Oro clients are not sins against programming, then you should immediately demote them in your mind to terrible programmers. This is not a matter of taste.

I do like Tygem's ranking system, disconnect handling policy, live pro games, and the ease of finding matches fairly quickly. Tygem/Oro also look a bit flashier (although this is often a negative for me)

KGS does have its problems, and its look is not very fancy. KGS also has some annoying policies. KGS probably runs on inferior server hardware compared to Tygem/Oro. Yes, there is the Java sound issue. However, in terms of UI design principles, Unicode support, non-Windows system compatibility, all-too-important SGF support, superior markup functions, ability to build reviews with multiple tree branches, and so on, it is light years ahead of Tygem and Oro despite being developed by one person.

That said, I still prefer to play on Tygem. My annoyances with Tygem are just that, mere annoyances. Some of the problems I have with KGS are kind of deal breakers for me, despite the fact that I like the KGS software for the most part. I think most people would agree that the client you use matters less than the players you play against and the policies on the server.

Well I doubt KGS or Kaya will be able to top what Go9dan.com offers for their 2013 Lunar New Years Festival -- a chance for 3 lucky winners to win a free teaching game each with Lee Sedol.
You have to join the site by Feb 8, 2013 for a chance at the raffle and all members as of that date are automatically entered.

I guess registering just to take part in the lottery, and keep playing elsewhere will be rare thing

tchan001 wrote:Well I doubt KGS or Kaya will be able to top what Go9dan.com offers for their 2013 Lunar New Years Festival -- a chance for 3 lucky winners to win a free teaching game each with Lee Sedol.
You have to join the site by Feb 8, 2013 for a chance at the raffle and all members as of that date are automatically entered.

Indeed, it seems that no one can. As others have pointed out earlier, they sure know how to promote their stuff! Lee Sedol! Full round robin pro league that brings together top Chinese and Korean players! This news is very interesting even without the new go server.

So, this server is pretty legitimate, and has the backing of Pros.
When will it get its own subforum here?

badukJr wrote:So, this server is pretty legitimate, and has the backing of Pros.
When will it get its own subforum here?

Usually when there's enough threads about it to make a separate subforum worth it.
But I think the mods might create it if you ask nicely.

When the server works stable, it will be a very hard competitor for Kaya.gs. But a competition is good. So i just hope that kaya.gs can catch up, if neccessary...

There may be good deals right now on server. There is 7d offering teaching games 50-gold, and you can buy 500-gold for 10$. So if he is real 7d then may be 1$ per teaching game with 7d -- which is absolute steal. May be worth looking into for certain players : )

logan wrote:There may be good deals right now on server. There is 7d offering teaching games 50-gold, and you can buy 500-gold for 10$. So if he is real 7d then may be 1$ per teaching game with 7d -- which is absolute steal. May be worth looking into for certain players : )

Maybe. But it's also possible they are trying to make money off of just anything. Look at what they are selling on the Archives page: http://www.go9dan.com/Home/Archive

Hmm. I wonder how much money I could make digging up my old DDK games and posting them...

snorri wrote:

logan wrote:There may be good deals right now on server. There is 7d offering teaching games 50-gold, and you can buy 500-gold for 10$. So if he is real 7d then may be 1$ per teaching game with 7d -- which is absolute steal. May be worth looking into for certain players : )

Maybe. But it's also possible they are trying to make money off of just anything. Look at what they are selling on the Archives page: http://www.go9dan.com/Home/Archive

Hmm. I wonder how much money I could make digging up my old DDK games and posting them...

I wonder if this means you won't be able to save game records of games you play / observe, or if it just means you can't access the archive after the fact?

i wonder if anyone here played game with john lee? if so howmany stone?

Magicwand wrote:i wonder if anyone here played game with john lee? if so howmany stone?

I haven't, but he's an ex-Korean-insei, must be strong.

It was announced that this server opens its beta phase on December 16th. Has anybody seen any users online there? I always get an error message "Error
You are unable to connect to our servers at this time. Please try again later."
This error message only appears on my Opera browser. On FF, IE and Chrome it doesn't, but I cannot see anyone in the lobby either.
Can anybody connect and see users in the lobby?

It looks like something a couple of Tygem developers built for a hobby English project server.

I see people there. I haven't tried to start a game or anything. It's been this way for a few days at least.