CyberOro
CyberOro is one of the major Korean Baduk servers. The servers' clientele reside primarily in Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Thailand. As of July 2005, CyberOro and DashN are the only Korean servers that offer clients with an English interface. Registrations for use can be filled-in on their
English page.
The English client runs only in Windows. There has been little success in using the client in Linux using emulators.
Newcomers should investigate CyberOroGettingStarted by bucko.
ilan: Interesting Cyberoro features not found elsewhere (to my knowledge):
- When replaying a game, you can push the "auto" button which replays the game automatically, with a delay which can be set by the user.
- You can replay a game using the mouse: left button = forward one move, right button = backwards one move.
- In even games, colours are chosen by Nigiri which is performed by the players as in a real game (it took me a while to figure this out).
- Score estimate also give a thickness estimate. Amazingly, you can use this score estimate during the game (apparently, this is an option).
- Before the game, you can choose whether undo option should be turned on.
- There is a girl who counts off the Byo-yomi like in a professional match. Otherwise, during the game, she is looking at the player whose turn it is to play. You have 3 choices of girl.
- There are little stone icons representing the players, and they are animated so that the player whose turn it is to move makes all kind of frowning faces, and other expressions of concentration.
The last 2 features are kind of silly, but it makes the atmosphere more jovial, I think. Other good features:
- You can challenge people, like on IGS, or you can post a game request, like on KGS.
- Byo-yomi is counted down on the last stone played, like on Dashn.
Features that seem to be lacking:
- Past games don't seem to be stored anywhere.
- You can't list the players by country, like on Dashn.
jang jirak?: The games are saved on the server as well as your computer. In the top of the game lobby window, there's a button which opens the server saved games. You can search other player's games there, too, but since i didn't play on cyberoro for a while I don't quite remember if that feature was for charged members only. (Functions for free members are largely restricted.) And i haven't checked out the non-korean clients so this might only apply to the korean client, not sure.
And as for the "Byo-yomi Girls", they are korean female pros who appears a lot on Baduk TV game commentaries and shows. I think they are Ha Ho-jeong, Kim Hyo-jeong, and Han Hae-won.
One of my favorite features of cyberoro is the pair-go. Unlike KGS or IGS, pair-go is quite active there and it's a great way for players of different level to come along together.
ZeroKun: Games are stored on your hard drive that you've played, you can also set observed games to do the same. The changing smiley faces are based upon the score given by the estimator :)
minue622 ilanpi, sorry, but i dont agree.
In my thought, << a girl who counts off the Byo-yomi >> is best!!! feature of 'cyber- oro'. Without it, I would not use 'cyber-oro' anymore. The voice of her makes me stronger, probably you too.
ilan: Unfortunately, there are no more Byo-yomi girls in the English version of the program. I just found out that the women who do the Byo-yomi are actually Korean professional players.
MrMoto?: feature #2 is implemented on KGS. (Hit Shift+"forward one move" button)
F0RTE: Anyone know why the people in the chat box keep saying 'foreign language'?
They don't actually say 'foreign language' just that whatever they say is said in a foreign language and the server/client's censoring it...
One thing though - Is the chat transparent between the main and the rooms? It's kinda confusing.. o_O Reuven
ilan: If I understand correctly, when you chat using the phrases which the server offers you (my favourite is "have you eaten something?") then other users will see these phrases in the language of the client they are using. However, if people do not use the server's phrases, then you will see "foreign language" if it is in another client language.
LordOfPi: Did somebody understand how the betting system works?
GrandYan: Anytime I try to bet, a message always comes up saying that betting only available to Korean servers. This probably means that only Korean client users or those who have Korea as their nationality can bet on a game. (It does not mean a bet can only be made in Server korea 1, Korea 2, or Korea 3)
As for betting itself, you have to bet before 50 moves are up. Press the 'betting' button, and a box wioll come up. There you can choose the amount of money you want to bet.
ilan: It seems that there is a problem with the Cyberoro software when computing territories at the end of the game. In particular, if you click on one point to declare it neutral (because it will eventually have to be filled for some reason), Cyberoro automatically declares all points connected to this point as also being neutral. Since I don't know how to go back to continue playing the game after agreeing to do scoring, it seems worthwhile to play out all neutral points before getting to the scoring phase.