> when having learnt it at a later age. If it was just putting in time, > someone 20 years old should be able to get close to 9-dan by age 30. > But this has never happened. And I don't know of a single person who > started at age 30 or later who reached amateur 5-dan. It's even very > rare for someone starting at 20 to reach 5 dan.
Great point. Part of me is going "surely there must be", and the other part is coming up blank. It would really be a fascinating experiment: find a few 30 year olds, who don't even know the rules, willing to dedicate the next 10 years of their life to learning a board game. Give them the best teachers; pack them off to Korean Insei school. They should be willing to have regular brain scans to see if anything changes in their brain chemistry over that period. (I suggest a "few" as some will drop out, and we also want to see how differences in personality and IQ affect the result.) Darren -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
