The Go Center membership and game system has been significantly overhauled, and an automated ranking system has been added. Changes you’ll notice are:
There are pages for each member, showing their games and rank history. Look for the little ≡ symbol next to each member’s name. It links to the member’s history page.
Ranks [...]
Yesterday’s club day was the best yet:
32 visitors to the center
23 players played
27 games
Over the month of June we’ve had:
92 visitors to the center
44 players played
115 games
This is great, and puts us on par with many Go clubs. I glad to see so much activity!
Yesterday we had 22 people stop by the Go Center and 16 games played to completion, plus a few teaching games. This is a great turn out for the club!
This week, Macro Horowitz starting hosting the 5pm SLT slot which should work better for people in more eastern time zones. Thanks Macro!
If anyone else [...]
While the gobans are pretty much self explanatory (mostly by being chatty), I’ve written up a full set of goban instructions.
Introducing a long awaited feature: SGF support! When you complete a game at the Go Center, the results and moves are sent to our web site. From there, you can view the game on-line, or download an SGF file for it. Follow the Games link in the navigation menu on the left.
At present, only [...]
The gobans in the Go Center playing area have been significantly updated. Changes:
Undo of self-atari now works.
Cushions now automatically focus your camera on the goban.
Area scoring (Chinese style) now compensates for handicap.
Several minor fixes in wording of messages the goban says.
Scoring choice at start of game: Area or Territory.
Games can optionally be “teaching” games.
Games [...]
I’m getting closer to having SGF output for the gobans at the Go Center. But this means that I have to make a choice in which scoring rules will be the ones used and recorded in the SGF. Take a second to vote in my poll.
Today’s club times at the Go Center enjoyed a lovely turn-out. There were as many as nine people there at a time, and at one point three games in progress at once. All told, nine club games were played today. That’s a record for most games played at the Go Center in [...]
We have four hours with hosts on club day, Thursday, at the Go Center. Of course, the center is always open for games, but having a host makes a particular time more likely to gain a regular attendance. If you’d be interested in hosting another hour, let me know!
I keep the hosted times [...]
I just noticed that sometime this week, membership at the Go Center exceeded 250. Way to go!
