On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Mark Boon 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
hi,
You're miscounting here completely again.
Counting the number of federation members is a bad idea.
Count the number of people who know a game and regurarly play it.
Draughts (internatoinal 10x10 checkers, using polish rules) is really
tiny.
It is not culture to get a member of a club
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
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
In message 9495573f-28cd-4ce0-b88a-f5443466a...@gmail.com, Mark Boon
tesujisoftw...@gmail.com writes
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
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:42:53AM -0200, Mark Boon 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.
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Thomas Lavergne wrote:
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
Sorry if I caused confusion, I didn't mean to count those as Chess-
players. I just stated that to show that despite large population-
numbers in say China, most of
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
:59 AM
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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 tesujisoftw...@gmail.com
wrote:
It's difficult to get hard data
Bridge is also far more popular than chess in the USA.
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From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-
boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Mark Boon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:07 AM
To: computer-go
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP
I found a Mind Sports slide presentation which says the following:
Go originated in South-East Asia, and the majority of Go players and fans
will be found in that area.
Private initiative characterises the organisation of Go which explains the
strong ties with the media
and
:
Bridge is also far more popular than chess in the USA.
-Original Message-
From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-
boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Mark Boon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:07 AM
To: computer-go
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA
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.
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GCP
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