Bill Gates claims to be good at Go - who knows his rank?

Boidhre · **#21**

lemon wrote:

Gates is a complete beginner in chess (think 25-30K in go terms). No one who has any idea about the game would play white's third move no matter the opponent or how nervous they are. From my personal experience in both chess and go 1600 chess ELO would be roughly equivalent to high SDK ranks.

Yeah, ok, Bd3 was very strange, I'll admit having ignored the moves in the chess game for the most part (because it's years since I played it and it was blitz

) but he didn't say when he was a 1600 player though, so maybe that's it?

As an aside, by high sdk ranks do you mean 2k or 9k?

skydyr · **#22**

Boidhre wrote:

As an aside, by high sdk ranks do you mean 2k or 9k?

I seem to recall a thread on this in which no one could quite agree. I try and avoid the nomenclature now, and use strong for maybe 1-3k.

Drew · **#23**

Bill Gates is on Twitter. Perhaps someone could simply ask him what his Go rank is? :study:

/me is not on Twitter.

Abyssinica · **#24**

skydyr wrote:

Boidhre wrote:

As an aside, by high sdk ranks do you mean 2k or 9k?

I seem to recall a thread on this in which no one could quite agree. I try and avoid the nomenclature now, and use strong for maybe 1-3k.

Strong and week seem better for describing ranks.

£5 on Gates being 17k.

SmoothOper · **#25**

Nyanjilla wrote:

oren wrote:

SmoothOper wrote:

That could possibly explain the Nihon Kiin's funding of the Seattle go center, No?

No. That had nothing to do with it.

...and wouldn't the money be in the opposite direction, if so?

Well, if you had a wealthy donor, wouldn't it be nice to maintain some visibility in his community?

skydyr · **#26**

Drew wrote:

Bill Gates is on Twitter. Perhaps someone could simply ask him what his Go rank is? :study:

/me is not on Twitter.

I thought it was pretty clear that we has 5d :p

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