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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. Barthoze: There are lots of things wrong with "Yahoo! Go" Server.
I've moved to IGS now, and I won't go back there. The "stupid passing rules" are as follows: after two passes, players select which stones are dead, and then a prompt comes up to ask whether the players agree that the game is over. (Assumably to prevent people from marking undead stones as dead to cheat.) If the the players do not agree that the game is over, the game continues, and passing is forbidden for the first player at this point. This means that in many situations a player can force his opponent to, effectively, never pass. (By cancelling out the pass by passing and then not ending the game.) This is a copy of the living page "Yahoo" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |