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Online Go Forum OGS Development 14: 402: June 18, 2025 The 2025 US Go Congress is one month away! Announcements 1: 48
What elo is required for each rank on OGS? - Online Go Forum This transition is planned to take effect around 2021-01-28T01:30:00Z (UTC) Summary of the update: We are attempting to align our low dan ranks to be comparable to the EGF and AGA low dan ranks Currently we are projecting that a 1d OGS rank will be about 7 stones weaker than an EGF 1d and about 0 8 stones stronger than an AGA 1d
2021 Rating and rank adjustments - OGS Announcements - Online Go Forum tl;dr - Expect a notable bump in your rank The lower the rank you are, the larger the increase This transition is planned to take effect around 2021-01-28T01:30:00Z (UTC) Summary of the update: We are attempting to align our low dan ranks to be comparable to the EGF and AGA low dan ranks Currently we are projecting that a 1d OGS rank will be about 7 stones weaker than an EGF 1d and about
How to get a game on OGS (Understanding the game graph) So, you’re new to OGS Welcome! This post will demonstrate how to navigate the game graph and find a game First, let’s look at the game graph: ###On the main page### ###On the chat page### How to read it The axes Y-axis (Vertical) The y-axis is rank The higher your rank, the higher your open challenge will appear on the graph and vice-versa X-axis (Horizontal) The x-axis is game time
Welcoming beginners and OGS rating system (A compendium) This topic is in response to yet another new topic in which a beginner is complaining about getting trashed by much stronger opponents and the OGS advice is to just take a few beatings to establish a rank OGS uses the Glicko-2 rating system This has advantages of stability, speed of response, etc
Unofficial OGS rank histogram (and graphs) 2022 - Online Go Forum It’s extremely difficult to find opponents for live games at the dan level on OGS, and without dan opponents it’s hard to become shodan Lightning games and correspondance games also don’t sound sufficient to improve At some point you need to sit down and play serious games And those are even harder to find on OGS
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ - Online Go Forum So a lot of people here don’t seem to know about the restrictions set in place by the bots admin, not ogs The restrictions vary bot to bot, but if you aren’t align with the restrictions the bot will decline the challenge So to make things easier i’m going to post the current restrictions of all the bots here
Getting started on OGS - Support - Online Go Forum OP appears to want to know what “5m + 5s” means ( it’s not normal maths so 5m5s) and “5m + 5x30s” too There’s nothing in that page to tell you the first is OGS syntax for Fischer time with main time and increment, and the latter is OGS syntax for Byo-yomi with main and number and length of periods
How does Rengo work at OGS? - Support - Online Go Forum All OGS Rengo games are by definition unranked 1 2 Rengo at OGS On OGS, Rengo is a game between 2 teams of players At least one of the teams has to have 2 or more players 1 3 Categories of Rengo Games Rengo games can be categorised in two ways: game speed (correspondence, live, blitz) and time control (strict or casual) This results in
Introducing GoTV - OGS Announcements - Online Go Forum Hey everyone, We’re excited to announce a new feature on OGS: GoTV! GoTV Overview GoTV is your new go-to spot for live Go streams, featuring Twitch streams from the Go community Dive into live games and watch players share their experiences How to Use GoTV Visit the GoTV Page: Head over to the GoTV page on OGS to see a list of live Go streams Look for the GoTV indicator in the navbar when