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I found this server some months ago and started to play on it almost exclusively for sometime.

The most attractive thing in this server is the style of go that is played there. It's a Go Fight Club! Every game is a hard fought and you will see your opponents Continue while dozens of points behind still hoping to make a comeback in a fight.

It is very good to sharpen your knife (reading) and learn how to face overplays and daring moves. After spending a few months on it, I became a dragon slayer (yes... big dragons never die...). Also, forget about joseki. Dashn is about fighting.

I liked its ranking system that is clear and simple, based on ELO rating system. Although most of the players there speak only korean, there is the avatars that allow some primitive communication and that are also fun.

This server has its own weakness too. The interface only run on Microsoft Windows OS with IE 5.5 or better installed. It's designed to run on 1024x768 resolution and is unusable on lower resolutions. This usually happens on other korean sites. I don't know if it's possible to run it on Wine, perhaps someone else can tell us about it.

The board interface (on 1024x768 resolution...) is very nice to play, but some go terms are not well translated (try to find the pass button...).

Overall, its a very good server to practice fighting. One of the strongest amateur (he is korean BTW) in my country once said: "If both players play the fuseki well, he who is good at fighting wins."

Finally, it seems that they want to promote the server outside Korea. Alexandre Dinerchtein 1 dan pro is promoting it and it seems that there are some free pro lessons and free pro commented games! Give it a try and go there to fight!

-- Helcio Alexandre

I played the first time on Dashn today. Good things first:

  • the client was quite nice
  • lots of high level and pro players around
  • Gibo (korean for kifu) service was really to my liking - you can see all the recently played games in a list which you may sort by any column, and then replay any of the games

And then the bad things:

  • The client installs automaticly to the default program file directory. Which is really bothersome for me since I have only a little space left on my C drive and would rather install everything to D. I tried moving it to D, but it did not work anymore.
  • The login did no work with Opera - only with Explorer. (The url shortcut the installer makes is then useless, since naturally Opera is my default browser)

And the most stupid thing (ok, not as bad as the Exhange MAPI bug that occurs only on Athens and Helsinki time zones, but still):

  • The score estimator does not work in the Finnish locale, since we use a decimal dot instead of a comma. You get something like: "Invalid float 6.5 error".

Anyways, it looked like a good place to visit once in a while. Maybe not so interesting for beginners or middle kius, though.

--- goantti



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