online-go.com VS 18xx

OGS is the closest thing I’ve found to lichess but it’s quite good! https://online-go.com/

That's nuts. I'll be honest online-go.com is my least favorite server to play on. Unfortunately it's one of the only ones that doesn't require software installation so it's easy to recommend to new players.

In 2016, I thought I'd give up on playing Go, seeing that our tree searching overlords beat us in every which way. Funny thing is, I'm playing a game right now [1].

[1] https://online-go.com/

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and also, https://online-go.com (OGS) is the best English server for playing online and getting a rank.

https://online-go.com/ is the most popular English server, called OGS. It's pretty good.

OGS (https://online-go.com)

OGS is open source, anyone can contribute to their github repository and it's in need of developers - almost 200 open issues. It's likely easier to gain traction and more beneficial to the go community compared to starting from scratch.

OGS probably has the largest pool of English-speaking beginners. https://online-go.com/ It's a web app, so it's very easy to get signed up and playing.

Also, I'd suggest trying to switch to human players pretty soon (online-go.com is the place to be for that), AIs and weak AIs will play with a lot of strange and bad moves, and playing against too many of them might give you bad habits.

If you're an 18xx gamer, there are way too many tested and proven designs to justify impulse buy from a first time designer, although it does look stunning for an 18xx game. There are people that love picking privates, many of them don't (I don't) and designer has made a conscious decision to make private drafting really important. I do believe that it deserves a chance but I would be more keen to buy if I tried it on 18xx.games.

I need to think about what I'm most jealous about. Maybe HF4ALL. I passionately hate TTS and I would give everything to be able to table HF but alas. 18xx.games I prefer much more, but still I would like to have and play 18xx games live but I'm no position to do that, maybe 1889 from time to time (I know, sad...).

You can play it 2p on 18xx.games - not the best player count but it'll get you familiar with the rules.

Also interested in 1830, 1882, 1849, 1889 etc. on https://18xx.games/

And one day my gaming group and I are going to tackle 1817 on 18xx.games. I'm not convinced that we can play that game in person in one night.

I would try these out on https://18xx.games/ to see which you like before you buy.

Not an app, but http://18xx.games