On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that would not be enough, because that would only fix one point.
You can use the width too. That should give a pretty good comparision for moderatly strong/weak players (see below).
EGF ratings are not pure Elo ratings. EGF ratings are weighted to fit 100 points for one handicap stone, which happens to match about 65% winning percentage in even games for medium level players (around 3k).
That should not matter much. The typical chess player should be "as strong" as the typical Go player and I also expect the strength distribution to follow similar lines.
Also, I am not aware that there exists a histogram of the worldwide go population.
Why would you need world-wide data? Use US-Go/Chess or European data. The lack of pros in this distributions should not matter much, as these are very few at the top end of the distribution. Christoph _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
