For amateurs, rank is defined as the number of handicap stones for an even game. For pro's it's somewhat arbitrary, depending on good results in the rating tournaments over many games. Of course Elo is a European chess concept and is not used for traditional games in Asia. A 9 dan pro is perhaps two or three handicap stones stronger than a 1 dan pro, so there are more than one pro rank per handicap stone.
David > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:computer-go- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Williams > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] cgos 19x19 gets interesting > > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Mark Boon <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you accept that the number of 'dan' ranks for a handicap stone > > increases, maybe the difference in rank between god and a 9p may > > actually be very, very high as the number of ranks accounting for the > > last stone could be dozens or more. > > Clearly being able to given a stone and have an even match is not what > is used to define rank. Is ELO used to define rank? If not, then > isn't it a largely arbitrary measure? > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
