Jk
Justin Kramer
- Member of
Empty Sky Go Club.
- Started playing in late August, 2002.
- Around
1 dan AGA
- 'kill' on KGS
- tartrate number is 1. Don't know my Shusaku number yet.
I do more playing than studying these days and I seem to have reached a plateau around 1 dan. My idle hope is that I will soon have an epiphany which will bump my rank up a few notches. In lieu of such an epiphany, I might start doing some studying. Or not.
Old Stuff (from 2003)
Being the geek that I am, I periodically harvest my games off of KGS and do statistics on them. For the curious, latest results (as of June 2, 2003) are below. Interesting factoid: I win more often as white than as black.[1]
games played win/loss as white as black win loss streaks Rated: 169 (83W/78B) 64% / 36% 73% / 27% 62% / 38% 10 5 Free: 160 (78W/73B) 58% / 42% 71% / 29% 52% / 48% 6 4 All: 329 (161W/151B) 61% / 39% 72% / 28% 57% / 43% 13 5
[1] - Neat. Probably just means you play better against a handicap than with a handicap. Wouldn't it be nice if KGS had such statistics readily available . . . or better yet if they had a game database you could fiddle around with? Aside - weren't you one of the people who 'beat' tartrate? - A Dude?
yoyoma: I think it's because the traditional handicap scheme gives an advantage to White, see Bill Spight's comment and more info in StepsBetweenRanks.
Justin: Before doing the stats, I actually thought it was the opposite: I thought I did better with handicaps than against. Worth noting however is that I don't play many games with handicaps above 2 or 3. I should try doing stats on just handicap games.
It would be nice if KGS had these kinds of stats readily available. To make my stats, I wrote a Perl script to pull down all my games from their archive and insert them into a local database, which I can fiddle with to my heart's content.
Re beating tartrate...embarassing subject. Technically I lost. I should have won by 20+ points, but I put a large group of mine into atari while filling dame at the end, and lost by 4.5. Just thinking of it makes me wince!