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- From: jlzhong@vision.csl.uiuc.edu (Jialin Zhong)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: Change my strength?
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 20:07:30 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela) writes:
-
- >No wonder there were several 8 dans and all too many 7 dans in the IGS
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >just a while ago. I'm still waiting to see just how many 7 dans will
- >remain when (and if :-) IGS rankings get organized to some (probably
- >more demanding) standard -- when I last visited, there seemed to be no
- >8 dans.
-
- Do I have to remind everyone that I was the one and only 8d on igs? There
- are no "several 8 dans", only one, and that was a joke, period. I can't
- see why some people are so worried about other people's ranking on igs.
- As I said before, enjoy the game, play with someone you know. There are
- some fixtures, like jansteen :-), who won't change his name and ranking
- every other day. While we are at it, I want to say that there are only four
- players who are 7 dans. I garantee you that most of them are among the
- strongest GO players in the States, of course, amateur players. If they
- were in Europe, I know some of them would be among top three without a doubt.
-
- Jialin "Only an NR on igs" Zhong
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