Life In 19x19

I don't really care what people register as. If it's a name I wanted and they beat me to it that's my hard luck. When I first registered on KGS I wanted to be just "toad" but that was taken. Later that timed out and I grabbed it. Maybe I should change my name here.

What seems silly to me is ...

I see that someone has registered "Yahweh" "Elohim" and "Allah" (and probably others) as user names to prevent other people from doing so.

I can appreciate that some people might be offended and that is the motive.

Other people might be offended by a user name such as "Satan" or "Hitler". Yet ...

Thanks I've tried that form, meanwhile I've climbed back one of the ranks I was put back.

Memo to self: don't use the adjudicate thing again it's mega-crap.

I only wanted to get my IGS rank something approximating to my KGS one I much prefer the KGS setup.

Probably so but it's really annoying that after working my way up the ratings over several days I've been put back two.

The winning streak I'm having sandbagging my way up again is only a small consolation.

I know I should have made sure that it was closed off, my opponent passwd and without checking I passed.

The client wouldn't let me "undo" the pass like KGS does and let me close off one spot towards the middle of the board.

When the client wouldn't let either player fix anything I clicked the ...

Whilst accepting it was partly my fault, a game I played wouldn't score properly because the boundary between two groups wasn't closed.

I asked for this to be adjudicated.

On the board I was about 6 points ahead.

They have now adjudicated the game, not only have they said I resigned, but they've ...

If you load up an adjourned game but your opponent doesn't appear, you will have to close it again.

The box that comes up has three options - "OK close", "Resign" or "Back to game".

If you accidentally press "resign" it accepts it without confirmation.

Please could it request confirmation - that ...

A problem I have with Wbaduk is that when I do win - or rather have a won game - quite often my opponent refuses to agree on what stones are dead or to play out the sequences to prove it and the thing goes on forever.

It's hard enough getting a win fair and square there as the standard is high but ...

#! /usr/bin/perl

sub readit {
$_ = <INF>;
s/\r?\n//;
}

$file = shift;
die "No source file given\n" unless $file;
die "Expecting NGF file\n" unless $file =~ /\.ngf/i;
die "Cannot open $file\n" unless open(INF, $file);

# Application and type

readit;

# Board size

readit;
die "Confused by board ...

I did write a Perl NGF to SGF conversion program if anyone wants a copy please ask.

It needs to learn how to put down handicap stones, especially 3.

Just arrived here - blame Richard Mullens for my presence.