Life In 19x19

Anzu wrote:Have a look at http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison

It's a comparison of ranks across different servers.

Thanks!! How accurate is that?

I'm a newbie to go. And I spent a lot of time to promote to IGS 9k... I would like to know how strong is compared to KGS and tygem.

I used to play on tygem, but there are too many (at least I feel) sandbaggers in DDK or even SDK. I was 7kyu, but feel really bad with sandbaggers so I gave up.

I ...

I'm really sorry but I almost want to reply as that "Why do people still use the Japanese when it's clearly bad?"

I do agree that when you do practical counting, Japanese rule is more convenient. But I think as a rule at least for beginners, Chinese rule has advantages.

First of all, what do we ...