Life In 19x19

Regarding kaya, I have lost all hopes. Nova seems great for correspondence games but has no time controls for real time games yet. As soon as those get implemented, I surely will try it out.


Nova already has time controls for live games! The interface is very flexible and updates in real time ...

Totally agree. Nova.gs has a lot of potential. It has all the important features already and it looks really nice.

there is no way to objectively measure accuracy like you can when judging the internal accuracy of the system

Do you say that an objective external measure of internal accuracy cannot exist or that so far nobody has described such yet?

I meant that an objective measure of internal consistency ...

I certainly agree that sudden shifts in the system are not desired, but as other people have mentioned that is a separate issue from being "internally consistent". Trying to make KGS consistent with external systems is not a straightforward problem since there is no way to objectively measure ...

The amount of importance some people are placing on ranks in this thread is quite silly. The most important thing for a ranking system is to be internally consistent, ie trying to have differences in rank equate to 50/50 games with the appropriate number of handicap stones. Why does it matter if ...

I tried the command as you said. The output indicated it worked but there was no sound produced.
Played audio file at volume 0.85125035

java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode ...

I have a 1920x1080 monitor as well and I agree that it is a bit too small.

I'm a kyu player and I feel like every time I take at least six months off, I improve by half a stone. I think it has to do with forgetting bad habits (or maybe it just has to do with server rank drift ).

Indeed. I started playing on kGS again after a one year hiatus. I was 9k when I stopped ...