There have been several hundred thousand Igowin downloads, so many westerners have been exposed to the game.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of George Dahl > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:59 AM > To: computer-go > Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > >> 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 > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> computer-go mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
