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:
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
