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From: shanwang@sara.cc.utu.fi
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: *_-__*_PLAYING_GO_*_--_-__*
Date: 26 Sep 92 07:39:27 GMT
Organization: University of Turku, Finland


        Hey, Firend.

	Do you like to play a game ??? We got a easy way here !!!
	Nope, at below it's a board, we just draw @ or O on it to
	stand for black or white. I know there are  many advanced
	programme by which we can have a computer  game. But this
	one could be played by E-mail ...
	
	  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 X . . . . . . . . 19	
        _________________________________________
        I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  1
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  2
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  3
	I . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . I  4
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  5
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  6
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  7
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  8
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I  9
	I . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . I 10
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 11
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 12
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 13
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 14
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 15
	I . . . + . . . . . + . . . . . + . . . I 16
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 17
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 18
	I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I 19
	-----------------------------------------

	We can use @ represent black stone and O stand for white ... It's Ok
	to also write down game record in case we can remember the ko.

	If any body like to play, so let's try :) ...

	The komi is 5.5 points ...

	
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
Subject: server sites
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 20:33:16 GMT

In a previous article i wrote that there were 3 servers.  i am wrong.
the original server, lacerta (129.24.14.70) is no longer available.
thanks to greg hale for pointing this out.  so that leaves the very
crowded (at times) berkeley server and france....

nate (eating his hat)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: hde+@cs.cmu.edu (Herbert Enderton)
Subject: Re: mirror, mirror on the board...
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:09:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.222622.14026@ichips.intel.com> $USER@ichips.intel.com writes:
(a solution to the problem "how to win (without komi) if Black plays at the center
and then plays symmetrically")

Here's a somewhat harder problem I invented about 9 years ago (though it may
not be original):  Suppose Black gets 6 handicap stones to put anywhere he
likes, and he places them so as to have an eye at the center, like so:
- - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -
- - - - X X - - -
- - - X - X - - -
- - - X X - - - -
- - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - -   
(use a 19x19 board if you prefer)
and then plays symmetrically, as in the other problem.  How can White win?  
(Solutions invoking a generalized ko rule receive only partial credit).

  -- Bert
From: jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: ratings algorithm (LONG)
Date: 1 Oct 1992 22:25:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: si.ucsc.edu


the following message was accidently mailed to me - it was
meant to be posted here so here it is :^)

------------------------------------------------------------------
From jlzhong@uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu Thu Oct  1 12:27:58 1992
To: jonathan@cats.UCSC.EDU
Subject: Re: ratings algorithm (LONG)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go

In rec.games.go you write:


>cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:

>>In article <1992Oct1.141349.20833@klaava.Helsinki.FI> olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela) writes:

>>There are also players (well, one at least :-) who have fun playing
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>serious games, and who like to play fast. I used to play slow, but
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I agree with Olli that some players have fun by playing seriously. I am one
of the players that only enjoy serious games (I take fast game as serious
as slow game) although sometimes I can't concentrate on go games for
other reasons, which is why I don't play as often.

>>nowadays I like 30 minute games or even less (per player, of course.).
>>Of course, to some even this is slow...

>>>In short: if I were asked, I would prefer an automagical system with
>>>ranks adjustable by the player in question. 

>>I second this.

>I third this -  Lets hear some more feed back on this.  Perhaps
>if a lot of people like this idea Tim Casey will put 'implementing
>a rating system' higher on his list of things to do for IGS...

>--Jonathan

>>2k
>>-- 
>>-Tero Sand
>>  EMail: cust_ts@cc.helsinki.fi     Snail mail: Auroran Sairaala os. 6-1
>>  (if that doesn't work, try                    Nordenskioldinkatu 20
>>   cust_ts@kruuna.helsinki.fi)                  00250 Helsinki 25, Finland
>-- 
>============================================
>| Jonathan Cano             |     //   _   |
>| jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu    | \\ //   (_)  |
>| 8kyu (+- 2kyu)            |  \X/     |<  |
>============================================

However, I think people have misunderstandings on rating in igs and playing
serious games. An official rating system would not make people play seriously
or play around the rules. It can only put unnecessary extra work on tim and 
igs administrator (you know who he is, don't you? :-)), which is a courtesy 
of them. Serious or not, in some sense, depends only on yourself. If you 
take any game as a tournment game and only think the best you can do in 
that game, you will enjoy it no matter what your opponents do. Besides 
after you have been in igs for a while, you should know who is your opponent 
and who is not your type. You know how to decline an unwanted game offer, right?

Cheers,

Jialin "8d! Are you kidding me?" Zhong

-- 
============================================
| Jonathan Cano             |     //   _   |
| jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu    | \\ //   (_)  |
| 8kyu (+- 2kyu)            |  \X/     |<  |
============================================
From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Ratings on the IGS
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:56:13 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

I personnally feel official ranks should be used, and if for some reason
you don't want to tell it, leave/set it at NR. I admit the bogus ranks,
whether high or low (but especially the high ones), irritate me.

As to automated rating: if such a program is implemented, I believe it
would be better accepted, if you could still set your rank manually. I,
for instance, will keep my rating at my official rank no matter what my
score is.

2k
-- 
-Tero Sand
  EMail: cust_ts@cc.helsinki.fi     Snail mail: Auroran Sairaala os. 6-1
  (if that doesn't work, try                    Nordenskioldinkatu 20
   cust_ts@kruuna.helsinki.fi)                  00250 Helsinki 25, Finland
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: fred@dickens.com (Fred R Stearns)
Subject: 30 live groups
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 12:43:04 GMT
Organization: Dickens Data Systems, Inc.

Bill Taylor was kind enough to point out that my posting of 30
live groups was mucked up due to the long lines in the SmartGo
format.  Here's another copy that should work better.


(
;
GaMe[1]
AddBlack[as][aq][am][ak][ag][ae][br][bq][bm][bl][bk][bg][be]
AddBlack[cs][cr][cm][ck][cg][cf][ce][cd][cb][ca][dn][dm][dl]
AddBlack[dg][de][dc][da][es][er][eo][en][ek][ej][eg][ef][ec]
AddBlack[eb][fs][fq][fp][fk][fi][fh][fb][fa][gs][gr][gp][gk]
AddBlack[gj][gh][hq][hp][hm][hl][hi][hh][he][hd][ha][io][in]
AddBlack[il][ig][if][id][ib][ia][jo][jm][jl][jg][je][jd][jb]
AddBlack[ks][kr][ko][kn][kk][kj][kg][kf][kc][ka][ls][lq][lp]
AddBlack[lk][li][lh][lc][lb][la][ms][mr][mp][mk][mj][mh][mc]
AddBlack[nq][np][nm][nl][ni][nh][ne][nd][oo][on][ol][og][of]
AddBlack[od][po][pm][pl][pg][pe][pd][qs][qr][qo][qn][qk][qj]
AddBlack[qg][qf][qc][qb][qa][rs][rq][rp][rk][ri][rh][rc][ra]
AddBlack[ss][sr][sp][sk][sj][sh][sc][sb]
AddWhite[ap][an][aj][ah][ad][ab][bp][bn][bj][bh][bd][bc][bb]
AddWhite[ba][cq][cp][cn][cj][ci][ch][cc][ds][dr][dq][do][dk]
AddWhite[dj][dh][dd][eq][ep][em][el][ei][eh][ee][ed][fo][fn]
AddWhite[fl][fg][ff][fd][fc][go][gm][gl][gg][ge][gd][gc][gb]
AddWhite[ga][hs][hr][ho][hn][hk][hj][hg][hf][hc][hb][is][iq]
AddWhite[ip][ik][ii][ih][ic][js][jr][jp][jk][jj][jh][jc][kq]
AddWhite[kp][km][kl][ki][kh][ke][kd][lo][ln][ll][lg][lf][ld]
AddWhite[mo][mm][ml][mg][me][md][mb][ma][ns][nr][no][nn][nk]
AddWhite[nj][ng][nf][nc][nb][os][oq][op][ok][oi][oh][oc][oa]
AddWhite[ps][pr][pp][pk][pj][ph][pc][pb][pa][qq][qp][qm][ql]
AddWhite[qi][qh][qe][qd][ro][rn][rl][rg][rf][rd][so][sm][sl]
AddWhite[sg][se][sd]
PLayer[W]
SiZe[19]
Letters[aa][ea][ja][na][sa][bf][gf][jf][mf][pf][sf][bi][fj]
Letters[ij][lj][oj][rj][al][fm][im][lm][om][rm][dp][bs][fr]
)
-- 
Fred R. Stearns -- fred@dickens.com
Everything's a kludge!
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 15:04:16 EDT
From: <JXL124@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: to How to login igs?

Question:  I have established an account in igs.  But when I ftp to igs later,
the prompt does not appear on the screen any more.  How can I login without
the prompt?  Could someone tell me the command, please?  Thanks.  Luo Jing
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: ken@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Ken Braithwaite)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go,kw.general
Subject: Go in Kitchener-Waterloo
Keywords: Go, Kitchener, Waterloo
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:51:38 GMT
Distribution: ont
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA

Does anyone know of a go club in Kitchener or Waterloo?

Ken Braithwaite

Ken.Braithwaite@Waterloo.NCR.COM
From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: ratings algorithm (LONG)
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:07:00 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In article <6688@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>In article <1aftt4INNqnj@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
>>
>>or play around the rules. It can only put unnecessary extra work on tim and 
>>igs administrator (you know who he is, don't you? :-)), which is a courtesy 
>>of them. Serious or not, in some sense, depends only on yourself. If you 
>
>Talking about extra work, yes, if there is a rating system.  I have
>experience quite a few times, that some people just quit without resign
>when in lossing situation.  If a rating system there, I may send mails
>to the administrator...  There was an occation, when I was told to wait,
>and the other party did login after about 1 hour, but quitted as soon as
>I said hi to him ;-)
>
>Anyway, let us enjoy and thankful what igs are now.

Don't get me wrong. I don't want to press anybody into doing anything.
What I _am_ saying is that *if* somebody's interested in implementing
automagic rating, I would say 'go for it, good idea'.

2k
-- 
-Tero Sand
  EMail: cust_ts@cc.helsinki.fi     Snail mail: Auroran Sairaala os. 6-1
  (if that doesn't work, try                    Nordenskioldinkatu 20
   custts@cc.helsinki.fi)                       00250 Helsinki 25, Finland
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: kwhyte@arthur.uchicago.edu (Kevin Whyte)
Subject: Printing games
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 22:00:38 GMT


  I ftp'd the smart2ps program and have been trying (unsuccesfully)
to print some games using it.  Can anyone who knows how to make
this work (I'm running under BSD 4.2) e-mail me step-by-step directins?
thanks in advance,
Kevin


A great many people think they are thinking       | Kevin Whyte 
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.| kwhyte@math.uchicago.edu 
--William James                                   | (312) 702-6045
From: davies@twics.co.jp
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: September Go News from Japan
Date: 2 Oct 92 22:03:28 GMT
Organization: TWICS, Tokyo, Japan

==================   SEPTEMBER GO NEWS FROM JAPAN   ====================
     The Meijin title match started September 9-10 in Amsterdam, and go 
players on Internet were able to follow (and kibitz) the action live as 
Kobayashi Koichi beat Otake Hideo by resignation. This game did not show 
Otake at his best: he played for power, but held the power in reserve 
too long and let Kobayashi defend one weak group after another. In game 
two, however, it was Otake all the way, playing for territory, 
brilliantly sacrificing a center group, and staving off Kobayashi's 
endgame tactics to win by half a point. (The way to brilliantly 
sacrifice a group is to make it look as if the sacrifice is 
unintentional, so the opponent thinks he's getting the lead when he 
isn't.) Then in game three, played September 30 and October 1, it was 
Kobayashi's turn to dominate, which he did from about the 75th move on, 
winning by 1 1/2 points. Score so far: Kobayashi 2, Otake 1.
               *                   *                   *
     This year the Shinjin-O tournament attracted more than the usual 
amount of attention because one of the two finalists was Michael 
Redmond, 7-dan. This was Redmond's first appearance in a newspaper-
sponsored title match (the Shinjin-O is sponsored by Akahata - "Red 
Flag" - the newspaper of Japan's Communist Party). He faced a formidable 
opponent in Komatsu Hideki, 8-dan, who had already won this title once 
in 1988, and played in both the Meijin and Honinbo leagues in 1992. The 
result: Komatsu 2, Redmond 0; Komatsu is Shinjin-O for a second time.
               *                   *                   *
     Aoki Kikuyo, who won the Women's Kakusei title in 1991, did it 
again in 1992 by beating Yoshida Mika, a young 5-dan player from the 
Kansai Kiin. The final game was close: Aoki fell behind in the middle 
game, gained ground in the endgame, stubbornly fought and won a final 
one-point ko, and took the title by half a point.
               *                   *                   *
     The go writers of Japan awarded the Journalists' Club Prize this 
year to Kikuchi Yasuro, citing his teaching activities, his work in 
promoting go relations between Japan and China, and his victory in the 
1992 World Amateur Championship. This was the first time the prize was 
given to an amateur; Kikuchi joins a select company including such names 
as Sakata, Fujisawa, Rin, Kato, Takemiya, and Cho.
               *                   *                   *
     Looking ahead to 1993, Japan's entrant in the next World Amateur 
Championship will be Hirata Hironori. Hirata was the oldest player in 
the two-day, six-round qualifying play-off, but he had enough energy 
left to defeat Kikuchi and Tanaka (last year's amateur Honinbo) in the 
last two rounds. Hirata has played in three previous World Amateur 
Championships (1982, 1984, and 1989), finishing third each time.
From: murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: READ THIS: IGS server abuse
Date: 2 Oct 92 20:56:58 GMT
Reply-To: murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (John Murray)
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University

In article <1992Oct2.175327.27222@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> davids@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (David Petrie Stoutamire) writes:
>In a similar vein, please set your email address correctly, and if it
>doesn't work once, DON'T KEEP TRYING.  I get all the mail that bounces
>and having to wade through and delete it sucks.  Tim has been doing an
>admirable job with this software, but making addresses work is up to
>you.

a suggestion: perhaps there is a way to do auto-verification of addresses?
i.e. when someone sets their mail address, or even perhaps before
every outgoing mail message, have the server connect to the mail port
and VRFY the address. If it fails, bit-bucket the mail. Alternatively, why
don't you put a filter on Postmaster and dump everything that comes from
the server? (both, maybe?)

I hope I don't seem like I'm getting on your case, but if you (and the server
programmer) haven't considered these ways of keeping the server out of your
hair, I think you should. Keeping the email addresses correct should be FULLY
the responsibility of the server users, not the sysadmin.

As for the frosh trying to break into your system, let's electrocute them.
(Although I will note that even I forget to add '6969' once in a while.)
I won't blame you one bit if you yank the server as the result of a breakin.

-- 
Disclaimer: Opinions mine. Brainless, knee-jerk reactions are your problem.
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From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
Subject: Re: mirror, mirror on the board...
Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Canterbury
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:24:57 GMT

|>  so it
|> leaves open the possibility that you could obtain an advantage by starting
|> with symmetric play and then departing at just the right moment.

Indeed now and again professionals (and others) still play mirror-go (for a
little while) with just this idea in mind. To some extent it may be described
as the mirror-player saying "O.K. you can do the thinking for both of us!"
But this is not really the case of course, as he must still stay on top alert
to catch the best departure moment.

There is an excellent game of this sort commented on in (I think)
"The Treasure Chest Enigma".
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Bill Taylor              wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                Dreams: the "kill-file" of the unconscious.
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From: jlzhong@uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu (Jialin Zhong)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: ratings algorithm (LONG)
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:46:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: roundup.1ai5erINNc8k
Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NNTP-Posting-Host: uirvld.csl.uiuc.edu

cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand) writes:

>In article <6688@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) writes:
>>In article <1aftt4INNqnj@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
>>>
>>>or play around the rules. It can only put unnecessary extra work on tim and 
>>>igs administrator (you know who he is, don't you? :-)), which is a courtesy 
>>>of them. Serious or not, in some sense, depends only on yourself. If you 
>>

First of all, the above are my posting, not jonathan's. These became Jonathan's
due to my mistake. My apology to Jonathan. Actually, Jonathan is the one of
the players wants to have an official rating. 

>>Talking about extra work, yes, if there is a rating system.  I have
>>experience quite a few times, that some people just quit without resign
>>when in lossing situation.  If a rating system there, I may send mails
>>to the administrator...  There was an occation, when I was told to wait,
>>and the other party did login after about 1 hour, but quitted as soon as
>>I said hi to him ;-)
>>
>>Anyway, let us enjoy and thankful what igs are now.

>Don't get me wrong. I don't want to press anybody into doing anything.
>What I _am_ saying is that *if* somebody's interested in implementing
>automagic rating, I would say 'go for it, good idea'.

I think Tero is oversensitive here. If you read the whole thread of discussion,
you will know these postings are not pointing to individuals. The purpose of
this discussion is to show the potential problems (or lack) of an official 
rating or automagic algorithm. Reasoning based on fact and logic is what we 
intend to do here. As I said before (or is that ding said before), enjoy
igs whatever way you want.

Jialin "8d!, are you kidding me?" Zhong
--
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Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: adrian@milton.u.washington.edu (Adrian Mariano)
Subject: Re: READ THIS: IGS server abuse
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 03:39:09 GMT

In <BvIr4E.M7p@nic.umass.edu> s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203) writes:

>For those people who don't know: you can set an alias for the above line
>to avoid some absent-minded mistakes if you are using unix. Simply add a
>line in your .alias file (you can find it by ls -a):
>alias telgo 'icsib18.icsi.berkeley.edu 6969'

This is somewhat incorrect.  

If you are running csh or tcsh AND either your .login or your .cshrc
sources .alias or calls something which sources .alias THEN you can
get the desired effect by adding that line to a .alias file.

It would be a bit less system dependent to suggest that people running
csh or tcsh put
   alias telgo 'icsib18.icsi.berkeley.edu 6969'
in their .cshrc file.  (I think if you have a .tcshrc file and run
tcsh, then you will need to put the command in .tcshrc instead.)

People running other shells may need a different command and will
certainly need a different file.
From: tcasey@adobe.com (Tim Casey)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: to How to login igs?
Date: 5 Oct 92 19:16:43 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View

In article <92275.150416JXL124@psuvm.psu.edu> <JXL124@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Question:  I have established an account in igs.  But when I ftp to igs later,
>the prompt does not appear on the screen any more.  How can I login without
>the prompt?  Could someone tell me the command, please?  Thanks.  Luo Jing

One cannot FTP to IGS.  DO NOT FTP.  It is bad for security.

tim
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: niekd@cs.kun.nl (Niek van Diepen)
Subject: Re: 30 live groups
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:24:51 GMT

fred@dickens.com (Fred R Stearns) writes:
>Bill Taylor was kind enough to point out that my posting of 30
>live groups was mucked up due to the long lines in the SmartGo
>format.  Here's another copy [deleted]

Hey, I thought this thread had died of natural causes (holiday). Is
there still some interest for a (not the) 31 group solution? Maybe
I'd leave it for another few weeks. It's fun trying!

Niek van Diepen
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: kwhyte@dent.uchicago.edu (Kevin Whyte)
Subject: Invincible- Games of Shusaku
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, U. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:46:11 GMT


     Does anyone have a copy of "Invincible" they are willing
to sell? 

 -Kevin


A great many people think they are thinking       | Kevin Whyte 
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.| kwhyte@math.uchicago.edu 
--William James                                   | (312) 702-6045

Newsgroups: rec.games.go
From: kwhyte@dent.uchicago.edu (Kevin Whyte)
Subject: Invincible - The Games of Shusaku
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, U. of Chicago
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:50:45 GMT


  Does anyone have a copy of this book they're willing
to sell?  Appearantly it is out-of-print.

 Kevin
A great many people think they are thinking       | Kevin Whyte 
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.| kwhyte@math.uchicago.edu 
--William James                                   | (312) 702-6045
From: yding+@pitt.edu (Yijun Ding)
Newsgroups: rec.games.go
Subject: Re: ratings algorithm
Date: 1 Oct 92 20:44:02 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

The rating system for Chess is available.  Even it uses four digits, the
last seems to be zero always.  It can be used for Go as well by adding
two (or three) decimal places to the Go rating, like a rank of 3.14 dan.
The only problem maybe that 2.92k is a better player than 2.12k, and
of course, better than 3k.

-- 
//Yijun Ding, Pittsburgh //Go your way, be happy.
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