Rank in China

   

pashley (a foreigner living in China): I have no real idea of my current rank. Chinese players do not mention rank. In the local club, the weaker players give me 4 stones and usually beat me. The strong ones give me 6 and invariably obliterate me. This is despite me getting about two stones worth of advice from spectators in almost every game.

Bildstein: What you say about rank in China is really interesting. I wonder how my attitude towards go would change if I never gave a thought to rank. I'd still want to improve, but...

unkx80: Indeed. Many mainland Chinese players only "play for fun" and never bothered to get their strength assessed. Besides, it costs money to perform the assessment. It often turns out that a random unranked player from China who steps into some Go club has a strength of a strong 4 dan.

Malweth: I think I would like a place where everything is unranked, (or only relative ranks), but this is nearly impossible online... it only works for close communities of players without much variance. As an aside, the Go club I went to in Taipei had a number of people who all knew their approximate ranks. The majority were very young, however, and probably had significant access to the internet.


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