Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 04:55:08 02/13/04
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[..} snip > >The stone ranking is based on the idea that giving a player an extra stone on >the board at the start is approximately equivalent to giving him an extra ten >points of territory I would guess more, maybe 15 (the measure by which you keep score) at the end. So a >player who is 2 stones stronger than another must give the other 2 extra stones >at the beginning for an even game, or he would win by about 20 points at the >end. Amateur ranks go from 1 (best) to about 30 (the worst). The best programs >are ranked at somewhere between 10 and 6 on the amateur scale, depending on whom >you ask. [Professional rankings are, very confusingly, rated in the reverse >order: 1 is the weakest (but still a lot stronger than an amateur ranking of 1) >and 9 is the strongest.] That gives the right idea, but correct is : Weakest ... 30 kyu ... ... 5 kyu ... 1 kyu 1 dan amateur ... 7 dan amateur 1 dan professional 2 dan pro ... 7 dan pro 9 dan pro Strongest
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