10 THINGS I LOVE/HATE ABOUT ON-LINE GO

Article by Terri Schurter

10 Things I Love About Online Go:
  1. Playing with people from all over the globe
  2. Finding a challenging opponent who beats me consistently, and learning that he is six years old
  3. Teaching beginners on the Zone and having them show up a couple years later on KGS as 1k with sentimental reminiscences of the days when they were weaker than I.
  4. Reviewing games with stronger players who are generous with their time and talents
  5. Reviewing games with weaker players who allow me to give back to the go community, and to be generous with my own time and talents
  6. Playing even games with stronger players, playing even games with weaker players, and playing even games with players my own strength
  7. Just watching
  8. Being a part of a community
  9. Working and playing hard at something I love
  10. Realizing that being strong doesn't really matter
10 Things I Hate About Online Go:
  1. People who disappear when they start to lose a game.
  2. People on the Zone who don't have the social skills to state their own rank before asking someone else's rank.
  3. People who insist on stringent time constraints and then have the nerve to ask for addtime when they run into trouble
  4. People who don't discriminate between a "clicko" and a lapse of judgment when asking for an undo
  5. Newbies who sit down to play expecting the game to be obvious, but who won't read the tutorial when they find out that it isn't
  6. People who demand a resignation
  7. People who say "I shoulda won", or who belittle your victory by crediting their own uncharacteristic lapse of judgment
  8. People who violate common courtesy by using vulgar language
  9. People who type a/s/l
  10. People who think that being strong really matters.