Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:55:12 02/13/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 07:55:08, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >[..} 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 Oops! You are correct, of course.
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