I am 3k on KGS and I'd say that I win nearly every game that I give handicap and lose over half the games that I receive handicap. That would seem to imply that more handicap should be given near my rank.
That is because the KGS rating system is not based on handicap. It is based on winning rates in even games like an Elo system (but it is probably weighted like the EGF system so that it stays more or less aligned to the traditional go rank system. None of these rating systems seems to have found a satisfactory set of weights to achieve a good alignment, but I think EGF does it better than KGS) Dave de Vos
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