KGS Ranked Game Networks

nodes are players and edges (links) are games ^[1][2]

thickness of edges is proportional to number of games

based on ranked games played in December 2010 (data from the KGS archive)

only giant clusters are shown

1d vs. 1d http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Ranked2010-12-1d-w2.svg (5.1 MB)

1k vs. 1k http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Ranked2010-12-1k-w2.svg (6.11 MB)

2k vs. 2k http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Ranked2010-12-2k-w2.svg (6.59 MB)

3k vs. 3k http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Ranked2010-12-3k-w2.svg (5.91 MB)

4k vs. 4k http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Ranked2010-12-4k-w2.svg (6.35 MB)

[1]: The edges corresponding to just one game have been erased. This removes 85-90% of the edges and reduces the number of connected nodes by a factor of 3. However, the general appearance of the network remains the same.

[2]: Bots have been erased too.