Nick Wedd wrote:
So what _is_ reality nowadays? Your previous email did not make this clear. Are Japanese pro grades now closer together than a third of a stone, or farther apart?
The reality is that the correlation between ranks and playing strengths is very low, and that knowing that player A is x-dan professional and player B is y-dan professional does not actually tell you very much about how likely player A is to win against player B.
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