I have heard 100 million as an estimate of the total number of Go players worldwide. - George
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mark Boon <tesujisoftw...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most popular game > in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it comes second by far to > a local chess variation. > > Possibly Chess is more ingrained in Western culture than Go is in Asia, I > don't know really. But Chess has the population-numbers of West vs. East > against it. If there are more chess-players than Go-players in the world > then it won't be by much. But the Go market is probably a lot bigger. Look > only at the money in professional Go tournaments. It's probably an order of > magnitude more than the money in professional Chess. But I must admit this > is just a guess of mine. > > Mark > > > On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:22 AM, steve uurtamo wrote: > >> i think you might be estimating this incorrectly. >> >> s. >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto <g...@sjeng.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Ingo Althöfer wrote: >>> >>>> What prevents you from freezing in your chess >>>> activities for the next few months and hobbying >>>> full (free) time on computer go. >>> >>> The amount of chess players compared to the amount of go players. >>> >>> -- >>> GCP >>> _______________________________________________ >>> computer-go mailing list >>> computer-go@computer-go.org >>> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> computer-go@computer-go.org >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
