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IGS
Connect your Go client (or telnet) to igs.joyjoy.net port 6969 or port 7777.
rank users --------- -------- 5+ dan 1,500 4-1 dan 6,500 1-9 kyu 10,000 10- kyu 4,000
Tips (wanted)What are IGS' conditions to increase the rated games counter of "stats <user ID>" ? I am not sure, if either a) only one (random) game within a 24h period counts (no matter how many games have been played within this period) or b) games against opponents below 26k do not count for the "rated game counter". Unfortunately IGS' help does not provide clear information about it. -- Frs, Jan 2003 Alex Weldon: The help files on IGS say that for a game to be rated, it must be played with someone who has a starred (*) rating, and the players must be within 3 ranks of one another (or play with a handicap high enough to bring them within 3 ranks). I have a question of my own, though. Does anyone know what criteria IGS uses for determining whether you go up a rank, down a rank or stay the same? It seems to update your rank every 24 hours, but I fail to find any pattern to how it decides whether to change your rank, or not. Sometimes I've played 5 games on a day, won 4 and lost 1 and had no change. Other times I've played 2, won 1 and lost 1, and gone up (or down) a rank. Is it taking several days worth of results into account? Is it randomized in some way in order to prevent people who are overly concerted with ratings from choosing to stop playing on a given day at a time favorable to their rating (ie, after winning enough games to go up, stop playing for the day, and if losing enough to go down, keep playing until you get into the "no change" bracket, then stop)? This is a copy of the living page "IGS" at Sensei's Library. ![]() |