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Holigor's Rating Of Go Players
The rating that is based on my own system that is very different from ELO can be found on I moved the rating to a different host recently. Due to the misfortunes of the talkcity site I did not update it for some time. There are gaps, yet at the moment the recent international tourmaments (Toyota Denso cup and Samsung cup are included). As for the middle July the most remarkable thing is that Cho U moved to the fifth position in the rating. This is partly because of Mok's poor recent result. Though Cho U has only a minor NHK title, his overall record is quite good. His high position might be an indication of something. Last year at the same time Kato Masao was the highest of the Japanese. Now Kato is about 20th because of the disastrous Meijin league record which devalued to some extent his Honinbo exploits.
The data on the matches are taken from Go news site at If you click on the names of the players you can see their record. The algorithm is described and explained at the site. The rating depends on the input information, certainly, and would change if the other tournaments were added. The table has some additional information. You can see how well the players perform with black and white, for example. The following is the description of the initial standing (August 2001). Yi Ch'ang-ho is the leader, of course. Look at his record. It is impressive. Two next places are surprising. The information on these two younsters (Gu Li and Pak Yeong-hun) is not complete though. Perhaps they do not do so well in other tournaments that I don't know about. Let's consider them new hopefuls and watch their progress. Other remarkable features are high position of Cho Chikun despite the loss of major titles, not so good record of Ma Xiaochun and quite low position of Rui Naiwei. She has a great win/loss ratio but most wins were against other ladies and her record with men is not so great this year. Don't pay much attention to the lower part of the table. The system cannot reliably rate players with few games. This is a copy of the living page "Holigor's Rating Of Go Players" at Sensei's Library. (C) the Authors, published under the OpenContent License V1.0. |