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Yahoo! (The search engine/portal) runs a little Go Server of their own. Many people compare it to Hell (hence "Yahell"). Quite a few people have taken to cheating on their servers as well.

I'm not sure of the algorithm their rating system uses, but it is largely incorrect due to the number of cheaters and sandbaggers present. Also, it is common practice to escape a lost game.

All in all, "Yahoo! Go" gets a collective thumbs down from the serious Go community.

[ext] http://games.yahoo.com/go


Barthoze: There are lots of things wrong with "Yahoo! Go" Server.

  1. First, the rating system, that looks like the Elo rating for chess players, sorry, but that's just not Go.
  2. Second, the clock has only one option : just one amount of time at the beginning and no byo-yomi, plus the stupid pass rules that makes some games crash into mind-crippling, annoying no pass go, what is considered as "cheating".
  3. Insufficient (if not completely lacking) replaying or saving abilities, which disallows many teaching possibilities.
  4. Too many players are horribily rude over there. KGS or IGS aren't completely jerk-free either, but "Yahoo!" seems to lure more of them.

I've moved to IGS now, and I won't go back there.



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