--- Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christoph Birk wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, terry mcintyre wrote: > >> Beginning players do improve by 4-5 ranks in a > short > >> period of time. We don't all start as dan-level > >> players, alas! > > > Yes, but short time will still be many games. > > It might be that most of those games aren't visible > to the rating > system.
Indeed -- I can offer my case as an example; in a few months, a 3-stone improvement. Only a small fraction of my games were played on KGS; the rest were face-to-face. Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/