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. CyberOro used NGF file format to store games.
Registration: New accounts can be registered free of charge on the English page.
The English client runs only in Windows. There has been little success in using the client in Linux using emulators.
Typically, of clients with English language support, CyberOro has by far the most number of players, with eight servers to hop around on, you can find more than 25,000 of your closest go friends online at one time.
CBlue: On Linux, Cyberoro seems to run fine in various Cedega (formerly 'WineX') versions for me, however, there's an annoying bug concerning stone graphics, that happens in every game: The colours of several stones will not display correctly, and they have a square around them as well. Haven't been able to find a solution for that one.
Newcomers should investigate CyberOroGettingStarted by bucko.
ilan: Interesting Cyberoro features not found elsewhere (to my knowledge):
- In even games, colours are chosen by Nigiri which is performed by the players as in a real game. You can choose even or odd, but I don't see where you can choose the number of stones
- Score estimate also give a thickness estimate. Amazingly, you can use this score estimate during the game. This is an option which can be turned off before the game during the game negotiation.
- Before the game, you can negotiate whether the undo option should be turned on.
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. In the player lists, players are identified for most major countries by little flags (default is UN flag), or by name in chat.
- No password recovery method.
- No triple ko handling.
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 :)
+ http://world.cyberoro.com/download/OroBaduk_20070330A.exe
? in OroBaduk? folder in ProgramFiles?, there are several avatars. How can we use them in client, anyone knows?