hi,
You're miscounting here completely again.
Counting the number of federation members is a bad idea.
Count the number of people who know a game and regurarly play it.
Draughts (internatoinal 10x10 checkers, using polish rules) is really
tiny.
It is not culture to get a member of a club in
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Mark Boon wrote:
It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most
popular game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it
comes second by far to a local chess variation.
Possibly Chess is more ingrained in Western culture than Go is in
:
Bridge is also far more popular than chess in the USA.
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From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-
boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Mark Boon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:07 AM
To: computer-go
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA
I found a Mind Sports slide presentation which says the following:
Go originated in South-East Asia, and the majority of Go players and fans
will be found in that area.
Private initiative characterises the organisation of Go which explains the
strong ties with the media
and business.
mputer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Thomas Lavergne wrote:
>
> > Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
>
> Sorry if I caused confusion, I didn't mean to count those as Chess-
> play
ary 14, 2009 7:59 AM
> To: computer-go
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona
>
> I have heard 100 million as an estimate of the total number of Go
> players worldwide.
> - George
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mark Boon
wrote:
>
I have heard 100 million as an estimate of the total number of Go
players worldwide.
- George
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mark Boon wrote:
> It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most popular game
> in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it comes second by far
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Thomas Lavergne wrote:
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
Sorry if I caused confusion, I didn't mean to count those as Chess-
players. I just stated that to show that despite large population-
numbers in say China, most of tho
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:42:53AM -0200, Mark Boon wrote:
> It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most popular
> game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it comes second by
> far to a local chess variation.
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is
In message <9495573f-28cd-4ce0-b88a-f5443466a...@gmail.com>, Mark Boon
writes
It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most popular
game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it comes second
by far to a local chess variation.
Possibly Chess is more ingrained in W
It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most
popular game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it
comes second by far to a local chess variation.
Possibly Chess is more ingrained in Western culture than Go is in
Asia, I don't know really. But Chess has the po
i think you might be estimating this incorrectly.
s.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
> Ingo Althöfer wrote:
>
>> What prevents you from freezing in your chess
>> activities for the next few months and hobbying
>> full (free) time on computer go.
>
> The amount of ches
Ingo Althöfer wrote:
> What prevents you from freezing in your chess
> activities for the next few months and hobbying
> full (free) time on computer go.
The amount of chess players compared to the amount of go players.
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Hello Gian-Carlo,
Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
> The computer chess forums are ablaze with protests,
> because ...
> [But] the decision seems to have been cast in stone,
> with no amount of protest still being able to reverse it.
I think, this is indeed the case.
But at least YOU would have rea
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