CyberOro

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[ext] 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 [ext] English page.

The [ext] English client is designed for Windows. There is no native Linux or Mac client.

Under Linux, the CyberOro client is known to work well on later versions of both Wine (since 0.9.38) and [ext] Cedega. If using the client under Linux, upgrading to the latest version of Wine is highly recommended. In Intel/Mac it seems to work well under the latest version of wine (through MacPorts).

If you are unable to log on to CyberOro, check the CyberOro Status page. CyberOro quite often experiences interruptions in service. The English language client update is often released several days after a server update.

Newcomers should investigate CyberOroGettingStarted by bucko.


ilan: Interesting Cyberoro features not found elsewhere (to my knowledge):

  1. 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
  2. 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.
  3. There is a pre-play feature that allows you to edit the current board when viewing a game or playing (unless it is turned off). This works in conjunction with the estimate feature (helpful for fixing complicated board positions the score estimation system gets wrong).
  4. Before the game, you can negotiate whether the undo option, score estimation, or pre-play feature should be turned on.

Other good features:

  1. You can challenge people, like on IGS, or you can post a game request, like on KGS.
  2. Byo-yomi is counted down on the last stone played, like on Dashn.
  3. Escapers lose after being disconnected for 5 minutes.Calvin
  4. Special rules can allow some odd variations in the gameplay.

Features that seem to be lacking:

  1. 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.
  2. No password recovery method.
  3. 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 :)

? in OroBaduk folder in ProgramFiles, there are several avatars. How can we use them in client, anyone knows?

ilan: Unfortunately, it is still possible to cheat on Cyberoro. Fairly regularly people refuse to end the scoring portion of the game by refusing to agree on dead groups. Since the clock is no longer running, this disagreement can last indefinitely. One can get an admin to adjudicate the game, but this is not so easy as the "call help" button doesn't seem to work and when in a game room it is not clear how to go to the main chat room to ask for help. So, in these situations, I have logged in on a second computer with another account and asked for help. This works well and the game is quickly adjudicated with excuses from admin and other users, e.g., "ah very rude player, sorry." This technique is also necessary for genuine disputes, e.g., the bent four in the corner pseudo seki, which, I discovered, was unkown to a dan player there.

mdm: you can click either on the button labeled "lobby" to go to the main chat. your game will remain active.

Alex: My PROBLEM: Does anyone know how to convert these orobaduk.games stored on your hard drive into a normal sgf?? IS there such a program at all. The "oroGibo-file" is quite troublesome...

Helcio?: MultiGo reads the file. Then you can save as sgf. My question, I got disconnected from a game, how do I continue?

Mackky?: If you are disconnected from a game, a counter will start from 5 minutes. After this the non-disconnected opponent automatically wins. Seems a bit more effective way to deal with leavers.


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