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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

I like the aggressive style of play. I'm sure soccer fans remember the Korea vs. Italy game from the 2002 World Cup. Remember how tenacious the Korean team was and how their passion and fighting spirit even led to dubious referee calls and how they finally turned the game around and won at the last moment?

Well, this is the go version of that game. You get to go through it every time you play at Dashn! If you play on this server, I am sure you will become stronger, faster than any other place. I'm surprised more international players aren't playing here.

Tamsin: I have written a little article on the "dashn style" that you may find interesting.

Pajaro: I have been trying Dashn lately. There is now an "Universal Lounge", that is, a room where you are supposed to speak English. Go and give it a try!

Nacho: I tried it, but it's always empty. And apparently you can't challenge people in the Korean Lounge when you are in the Universal Lounge, so it seems it will be empty for a long time...

Hikaru79: Empty? o_o... I think you did something wrong with the client. Dashn is anything but empty... if you were referring to just the Universal Lounge, it is because an oddity of the client. When switching between the two lounges, it takes abouta minute for the user list to catch up. If you wait a bit, you'll see a sudden flood of the users in the Universal. :)

mdhI agree with Nacho. I just signed up and tried the client (compact version, no Inter patch) and I waited about 5 minutes and nothing showed up in the Universal Lounge. One person's name popped in and the popped out but no lists. Do you need the Inter Patch?

---Drrichstyles


mdh Tried my first games on Dashn. I started as a 18k because ,well, I am not very good at tight fighting. First thing that came to mind. Not many really low level players to play at least on a weekend morning (USA Central Time). In both games, the other player tried to talk with me but of course it all comes out as strange gibberish since my client does not show Korean very well. But they kept trying. Second thing was both tried to cancel the game after a certin number of moves. The first game was about 60 moves before the Cancel request came. The next game was at the end of Yose and that Player asked to cancel the game. I didn't understand, I said no since it looked like a close game. I lost by 12 points so it wasn't that close. But is that a normal thing? Do other people get cancel requests frequently? (Jackalope on Dashn)



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