Account Creation
Your account can be a guest account or a permanent account.
Log in,
choose a name, and click the "Guest" button. You can play, but the server does not save anything about you, and forgets about you as soon as you disconnect.
You create a permanent account by registering a guest account.
While you have a guest account you may find it difficult to get a game, because many people on KGS are reluctant to play with opponents who have not bothered to register an account. No harm in trying, though. Putting a "Please" in your game-offer notes helps.
Account naming conventions are described in the "CGoban Main Window" in the "To Connect To KGS for the First Time" section.
From the "User" menu, select the option
"Register".
You will need to give a valid email address. When you register, your password will be
emailed to you at this address. You may also supply:
- Your real name. You can type anything here. It is what other users will see if they look at your account details.
- Whether you want other users to be able to see the email address that you used to register.
- Whether you want announcements from KGS to be emailed to that address.
- Any notes that you want to other users to see when they look at your account details.
Do not worry about these last four things, you will be able to change them all later.
Do not use a hotmail address for registering. Some users have reported that when they try to register using a hotmail address, they never receive the email with their password. We think that Hotmail mistakes the email with your password for spam, and never delivers it. Yahoo and
Gmail address seem to work just fine.
After you receive the email with your temporary password, log on and change your password within 24 hours. If you wait longer than this, your temporary account may have been deleted. If this happens to you, please log in as a guest and try again.
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