Online Go Server – Tygem

Online Go Server – Tygem

Tygem is a popular Korean based Go server where you can find Korean and Chinese servers or “rooms”.

They have an automatch feature that makes it easier to find a random match with someone else. The quick automatch is a 5 minute main time with 3x 30 second byo-yomi’s.

You can also create a room for playing.

When I log in I see listed:

• Premium
• Korea1(1D-8D)
• Korea3(18K-1K)
• Sudam
• Championship
• World
• ChinaPremium
• China(1D-8D)

To log into the individual server you should be within that rank structure. I’m currently a 5K on the Tygem Go server. My username on Tygem is “wallerdog”.

If you would like to make an account on the Tygem server, I made a video on how to do that here on Youtube.

Cho Hye Yeon, 9P who you can see on our listing of Professional Go Teachers, also plays on Tygem.

Although, I’ve now shown you three go servers you can play on I would recommend you only play on one or two after you have found which ones are best for you.

I have all of these accounts so I can play my viewers no matter what server they play on. I want to make it easier for them to be on my live stream on Twitch where I stream Wednesdays from 2-4 PM EST. Follow my Twitch channel so you can watch me play live or even play a match against me.

See you there!

Online Go Server – KGS (Kiseido Go Server)

Online Go Server

I thought one of the important things to discuss and introduce to you would be where you can play go online, for free!!! The first online go server that I played on was KGS.

In successive posts I will introduce to you some of the other online go servers that I play go on.

On KGS, like most other go servers, you can watch others play games, play games and get your games reviewed.

They have now opened up weekly professional lectures for free, that’s a great way to get the best knowledge about the game of go.

Here is the main page to the KGS online go server:

The KGS Go Server

Once you are inside the server you will find there are different types of rooms. There is an active game room where you can see a listing of all active games. There is an open games room where you will see those who are wanting to play. A new room since I played, it’s been a while, is a computer go room. I’ll have to check it out soon and report back to you.

There are also many different language rooms available. If you click on Rooms, you will see Main, New Rooms, Clubs, Lessons, Tournaments, Social and National. I recommend you check some of the rooms within those listings.

The hardest part about joining and server and playing go is getting ranked. The reason for that is because your rank will show up as a “?”, meaning you are unranked. Unfortunately, there are those who will purposefully play lower ranked people just so they can enjoy betting them. That kind of hurts it for the rest of us who are either just starting out, have just joined the server, or haven’t played on the server for a while and the system has reset our rank to a “?”.

I think I will follow this up with a video later on and put it in this post. I don’t know about you, but I’m a visual person and would prefer a video on this rather than reading a 400 word post.

Oh, one more thing! My in game name on KGS is “LesWaller” don’t hesitate to say, “hi” and let me know you came to the server from this online article.

Some of the Online Teachers I’ve listed in my site play mainly on this online go server; go check them out!

Thanks!

Les