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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.


One way to avoid cheaters at yahoo: don't begin a timed game. Cheaters at yahoo use the bad programming of the server. -- RueLue

One way to cheat on yahoo is in the counting phase. If your opponet plays the last move, time keeps going for him, and if the game outcome is not agreed on before his time runs out he will lose.

Anonymous - While it might be overrun with sandbaggers, I have more than once enjoyed playing players much stronger than me on it. It works in your favour if you think about it :)

DeathWind: Horrible place to play go! D:

timan72: Yahoo! Go is the only place where I have found other weak players to play with so far. Does anybody know a better place?

Zarlan: KGS ...or any other Go server. I recommend KGS, personally.

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