Slate & Shell bans Moyo Go at New Jersey Open

I'm trying to sponsor Go events, (any one with at least 30 participants and a link to my site is elligible), and I was amazed at the honest dishonesty of Rick Mott, organizer of the New Jersey Open and member of the Princeton Go Club:

"I am good friends with the developers of MasterGo and I don't think they would take it kindly if I announced sponsorship by Moyo Go..."

Hm. Amazing how corrupt the AGA has become, and amazing how unashamedly they announce their corruption.

Last summer, Rick Mott said that the AGA is not a democracy, and now we know that he's Slate & Shell's puppet dictator of the Princeton Go Club:

(In a previous posting, I have demonstrated how AGA is infiltrated by Slate & Shell, sellers of MasterGo.)

But regional AGA tournament organizers now announce "I am friends with Chuck Robbins of the Slate & Shell company so our tournament can't accept your sponsorship".

Have the players been asked for their opinion? Don't they pay their dues? Does Rick Mott, as an enforcer of Slate & Shell, decide for his fellow tournament participants what they should be able to win, based on who he is friends with?

So - because the tournament organizer has been told by MasterGo not to accept sponsorship from Moyo Go, he effectively steals a copy of Moyo Go Studio from one of his club's players!

Who's the boss at AGA tournaments? The paying AGA members and their trustworthy representatives - or the Slate & Shell company?

Shame on the AGA for allowing Slate & Shell (accused of having stolen Ing funds to start their company) run their business and shame on you, Mr. Mott, for secretly stealing software from your own paying club members, club members that trust in you, that trust that you won't deny them what is rightfully theirs.

Update: Several AGA-tournament/workshop organizers welcomed my sponsorship, so it looks that Rick Mott is not speaking for AGA but for Slate & Shell only.

Corrupt AGA Attacks Again

This is from AGA's website. Notice the "infomercials" for MasterGo (--33,000 pro games--) and SmartGo (--38,000 pro games--).

MoyoGo offers 52,000 pro games. But for some reason, AGA's webmaster does not mention that Moyo Go contains 52,000 pro games.

That's biased reporting. That's cheating your paying members out of valuable information. Let them decide what is ethical. Do not essentially lie to your members by hiding information they pay you to provide. A classic example of biased reporting. Hiding positive facts because of personal financial motives. Highlighting aspects of product X and hiding the same aspects of product Y with the intent of benefitting financially. Why is the public informed of the number of pro games in MasterGo and not in MoyoGo?


Very simple. MasterGo's author is Chuck Robbins.

And Chuck Robbins is not just AGA's webmaster, he also is an AGA Board Director!

So I guess you don't need to know. It's in the direct financial interest of AGA's webmaster and director Chuck Robbins - author of MasterGo and co-owner of Slate & Shell - to tell you how many pro games MasterGo has, rather than how many pro games Moyo Go Studio has.

The proof:


Note how Bill Cobb is selling MasterGo at Slate & Shell and also working for AGA.

This is what others said about yet another AGA attack: A vile "review" of my software containing many deliberate lies and slanderous allegations, concluding that it is basically "useless crap" and might even install a virus. Philip Waldron falsely claimed the software has no Help file, and instead of focussing on the pattern expert system, he ignores it and calls the software a "game database" and says that the "analysis feature performs poorly". Note: There is no analysis feature in Moyo Go. He was confused with the auto-annotation of patterns with a high statistical move-likelihood.

If you are a customer of Moyo Go Studio, and if you are an AGA member, please tell them what you think of this. I am working hard to provide free updates of my software, but I need your help, defending myself against AGA's ongoing information warfare campaign of rigged reviews and censored listings.

Shame on AGA's leadership and shame on AGA's members who allow Slate & Shell's hijacking of AGA to continue.

AGA has been punished by the Ing Foundation for alleged financial malfeasance (starting Slate & Shell with Ing money), but there have been rumors that Ing considers sponsoring AGA again. Please inform the Ing Foundation that AGA is still as corrupt as before:

Ing Chang-ki Wei-ch'i Education Foundation
4th floor, Kuang-Fu Bldg
35 Kuang Fu S. Rd.
Taipei, Taiwan