Why Gomoku ships first
Learnable in thirty seconds, argued about for three thousand years. Gomoku is the shortest road to showing the world why these games are good.
Blog
Development notes, board game culture, and updates from YiBoard.
Where the ladder comes from
Ninth Grade to Ninth Dan: why we borrowed grades and dans from real Chinese board culture instead of bronze and platinum.
Server-side refereeing: why nobody can cheat your game
Every move is validated by the server; the client is only a display layer. That is the baseline of our anti-cheat design.