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11-14-2009 , 04:03 AM

Neil S

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http://www.wbaduk.com/

Previously people in Europe and the Americas would have a difficult time getting onto this network, which attracts players up to and including top pros in China and Korea. But now it seems anyone can register, which is exciting.

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11-14-2009 , 07:33 AM

river_tilt

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Cool, thanks for the link.

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11-14-2009 , 07:43 AM

Dire

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15k players online is pretty insane for a site restricted to three countries. ICC usually has about 3000 players online. Although I guess chess is splintered between playchess, ICC, fics, etc whereas I'm guessing WBaduk is probably where almost everybody in those countries plays.

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11-14-2009 , 10:08 AM

RoundTower

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I think the real splintering of chess is the thousands of casual players playing on Yahoo, etc - I don't know if there is the same effect for go.

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11-14-2009 , 01:55 PM

Dire

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Originally Posted by RoundTower

I think the real splintering of chess is the thousands of casual players playing on Yahoo, etc - I don't know if there is the same effect for go.

Definitely. Did not even consider sites like Yahoo.

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11-14-2009 , 09:13 PM

Gregvenezia

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Originally Posted by river_tilt

Cool, thanks for the link.

+1

sigh i wish i was better at baduk

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11-14-2009 , 11:56 PM

Neil S

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Definitely. Did not even consider sites like Yahoo.

I don't think Yahoo is big in the countries where go is biggest, so that helps.

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11-15-2009 , 07:08 PM

wait what

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ty for the alert. as an american player i had tried to get on wbaduk a month ago but i wasnt able to make an account since it never sent me a PW. i just now registered and got on without a hitch

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01-11-2010 , 03:58 AM

chiachu

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i absolutely hate how every korean website only works properly on internet explorer. but in any case, thanks for the link.

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