KGS Trivia

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I am just a victim of extensive tiring kibitzing about matters discussed over and over again. I will post trivias that commonly arise here. If anyone wants to add anything, i ask please to do so after the line of --- , later i will see if it should be on the top.

About pros:

Korean-Japanese pro : Yes, we all know korean pros are stronger than japanese pros, and that korean inseis are stronger than japanese inseis.

Mumu?: mumu is not the little girl in the picture, thats her daughter

Fifi: he is catalin taranu

Tartrate has a page here.

To get to pro u have to take an exam that is basically a tournament, although there are other ways to get to it, the method just said is the most common. To be pro u have to be less than 18 in nihon ki-in and less than 30 in kansai ki-in.

Pro ranks: range from 1 dan to 9 dan. Many years agao Kageyama said that the difference between two professional ranks was around 2 points; a 1p is almost 2 stones weaker than 9p. Of course Kageyama was speaking of professionals in Japan. In Korea the ranking system is much tougher, even some "inseis" are very strong (no komi against Lee Changho I heard). So in Japan, the pro rank really differentiates the strengh between pros but in Korea not so much, as there are lower ranked that are strong (example, Lee Sedol, that did not participate in the ranking system and got stuck in 2p, despite being one of the strongest in the world)

About Ranks

Ranks go from 30k to 1k, then start on 1d and go up to 9d in some servers. "p" is a different rank, it means professional: that is, an organization gave them the title of the above.

About terminology

There is this big wiki page that includes a lot of japanese terminology: it is called senseis library, and by making a simple search you can get a definition of most japanese terms.



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