Agreed. I prefer the game interface and I much prefer the lag handling. The stuff around the game, e.g. reviews, or finding friends, or chatting, is just a case of getting used to it. I still mostly use KGS but that's because my friends are using it.

I also think Tygem's interface is 100% better on iPad than KGS. Of course that's largely due to the fact there's no KGS iOS client…

How well is the iPhone/iPod/iPad client working? I'm almost sold on an iPad2 (instead of an Android tablet), and the lack of an iOS client for KGS has been one of those aspects that delayed my decision. Knowing that there is one for Tygem helped it.

So far I've only used it to watch other games, but I like it. It's very different from KGS on a regular computer though. It's been updated once so far to add a couple of features, but it's still lacking a lot compared to their desktop version.

I have played some games on Tygem with the iPad. It wasn't half bad.

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Does it store games locally, like the Windows version does? (I guess I'll become an iSheep next week. )

Yes it stores games locally. On vista and windows7 it stores at

c:\users\Your username\appdata\local\virtualstore\Program files\tygemglobal\games

or

c:\program files\tygemglobal\games\


For some reason my games are split between both folders.....


*EDIT* Oops... didn't realize you were asking about the ipad version... well here is the onfo in case someone else is wondering lol...

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If you have a paid for account, you can enter any area. I don't know if the English client has such accounts, yet, but they may later.

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Yesterday I managed to find a couple of hours to play some games on tygem for the first time. I registered as 4k but I found 3-4k players a lot weaker than those on KGS. They are certainly much more aggressive but leave a lot of weaknesses behind. The challenge is exploiting them for hunting the hunter. Similar style to that of wbaduk but very much different from KGS.

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I really love playing on Tygem on the iPad because it requires two taps to submit a move. I've lost so many games on IGS using Tengen go due to misclicks. I don't find it hard to play a serious game there.

The app itself isn't technically that good otherwise. There's no chat. It doesn't change orientation. You can't download games. You can't view profiles. Really - it's not very good. But, they did make the actual game play work well. I highly recommend the iPad Tygem app if you want to be able to play online when you aren't around a computer.

I am amazed about how there is virtually no lag when playing. Together with the voiced byo-yomi countdown it is a really nice experience to play.

On KGS, there is lots of lagging. In byo-yomi, you constantly wonder: will he accept my move in time or might I lose on time ...

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Interesting. I'm 4k on KGS and seem to waver between 10k and 7k on Tygem.

My winning/losing streak also seems to depend on whether I use the Automatch function, or I answer someone else's request.

When I use the automatch function, the players often turn up to be much stronger in my experience.
It feels like the sandbaggers are waiting in ambush for someone to offer them a game and then... KABOUM!

... or maybe I'm simply imagining the whole thing

I don't know, I see that I sent that post almost a year ago and I play very very rarely recently. Maybe I got a wrong impression based on few games.

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