online-go.com VS Sabaki

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.

I like Sabaki, but there's also GoWrite, CGoban (the KGS client), and others (search for "SGF editor"). You can also review .sgf with OGS online, or with AI Sensei. KaTrain is a very good AI client that can review .sgf as well.

Actually, you can connect an AI engine like KataGo to Sabaki. You need to install the AI engine separately and understand command lines though.

I've been using ChatGPT since launch and constantly seeking out examples of how others have been using it. A few years ago I started using KataGo with Sabaki to improve my go-playing abilities. I've known about token embeddings in neural networks before ChatGPT was a twinkle in OpenAI's eye. I was there, but I haven't seen everything you've seen, so please show me. If the truth is that ChatGPT has canned responses to some prompt or set of prompts, then I want to believe that it does. If I have misconceptions about anything, I want to break those misconceptions. As long as your beliefs and mine contradict one another, one of us has the opportunity to learn.

It's a feature with sabaki, to make it look resemble a real board more.

That said, if you can download some sgfs and view them in a tool like [sabaki]((https://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/), you can try and match the score that the computer reports. You can get SGFs from here - other sources are available. Be sure to find games which were won on points. You can't count a game won by resignation.

I like Sabaki

It's a shame because KGS would benefit greatly from a modern client. I think at this point writing a new client from scratch would be preferable, or maybe taking something like [Sabaki](https://sabaki.yichuanshen.de/) and turning it into a KGS client might be viable. Speaking of which, Sabaki is a good option for those looking to contribute to an open source project.

Sabaki has the "guess" mode which is great for this.