Forum for Top Amateur Players By Country
How are the "top players" from each country determined? [#2210]
I'm curious about the criterion by which the top players are supposed to determined on this page. From a different discussion topic, and the page description, the WAGC participants are clearly candidates for this list... But other than that, what's the basis? The country descriptions often seem to reference the EGF or AGA rating list, if the country is one covered by one of those associations. Is it intended to be directly correlated to the ratings system of the particular country, given that one exists (eg. strongest by EGF or AGA rating)?
If the US is any guide, it's a somewhat opaque process. The people included on the US list are all deserving, but there's lots of people missing, i.e. both Dae Hyuk Ko and Thomas Hsiang.
Like a lot of things on SL, there are no clear rules. If you think someone should be on the list, then by all means add them!
Kirby: That's cool, then. I thought that, if the page had the intent of keeping track of only international competition participants and the top rated players from some association, for example, that it could say so at the top of the page.
But if there's no such rule and it's just a handful of strong people, then I guess there's no need for such an explanation at the top.
When I first read the page, and it was talking about the "strongest" people from a country, it just seemed hard to define.
It seems people have been populating this list by using EGD without a filter to exclude non-active players, e.g.
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Added Shutai Zhang to the UK. He left a long time ago. I wonder how many other out of date entries like this have been added. There are often strong Asians who visit western countries for a few years and then leave again.
Thanks for fixing, feel free to fix any such instance you find!
Shouldn't Shutai Zhang have been added to China instead? He came from China, lived in the UK for a good few years, then went back to China.
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