Hello colleagues,
Any ideas who is the current world champion of Go and where the next fight for the tittle will take place? I have been searching a lot in Google and couldn't find a thing
Thank you very much!
Best Regards
Stefany
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| Author: | Stefany93 [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Who is the current world Go champion? |
Hello colleagues, Any ideas who is the current world champion of Go and where the next fight for the tittle will take place? I have been searching a lot in Google and couldn't find a thing Thank you very much! Best Regards Stefany |
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| Author: | dfan [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
This is a great site to see the current state of all the titles: http://igo-kisen.hp.infoseek.co.jp/news.html There is no single "world champion" title the way there is in chess. |
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| Author: | daniel_the_smith [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Unlike chess, go doesn't really have official world champions. Lee Changho, Lee Sedol, and Gu Li are all pretty strong, you could look them up. |
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| Author: | gowan [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Stefany93 wrote: Hello colleagues, Any ideas who is the current world champion of Go and where the next fight for the tittle will take place? I have been searching a lot in Google and couldn't find a thing Thank you very much! Best Regards Stefany There is no single world championship tournament in go. SOmehow what I would call international tournaments have come to be called world championships but there are many of these tournaments. |
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| Author: | nagano [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Probably the closest thing to a world champion tournament is the new Super Meijin, in which the winners of the top national titles in Japan, China and South Korea compete. However, the tournament was set up unfairly, partly because there were an odd number of players. Admitting the winner of Taiwan's top tournament would have solved the problem, but no doubt China wouldn't have that. More useful would be a list of top players: 1. Lee Sedol 2. Kong Jie 3. Gu Li 4. Lee Changho All of these have often been called #1, but it is far from certain which really is. |
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| Author: | oren [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Kong Jie deserves a lot of credit for having four international titles this year. |
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| Author: | pitirre [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
I like that there isnt a world championship go match. in chess world there is always some kind of dispute and even some injustice to have a world chess champion. in go just follow who wins more tournaments and other players ... and that's your TOP player. I prefer that. |
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| Author: | Suji [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
pitirre wrote: I like that there isnt a world championship go match. in chess world there is always some kind of dispute and even some injustice to have a world chess champion. in go just follow who wins more tournaments and other players ... and that's your TOP player. I prefer that. What disputes are there in chess now? The title has been reunified since 2006. My personal opinion is that a Go world champion is needed, since Go would advance in ways that would be better. All the people that aren't world champion would improve drastically in order to have a shot at the title. You could market the game more if you had one person that was world champion, rather than multiple people who are "strong". |
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| Author: | kokomi [ Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
There isn't a unified Go Rules, not to say a world champion. |
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| Author: | sixko [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Who is our Magnus Carlsen??? |
I too think it would be good to have a Go World Champion and that it could help promote the game. But if we can't have that, it would be nice to know who is the current top player by ranking at least. Some would say this is more meaningful then a world title anyway, as is sometimes the view with chess's Magnus Carlsen. |
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| Author: | palapiku [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
There isn't a unified ranking either. At best you can evaluate different players' performance at international tournaments, but most matches are played outside of those. |
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| Author: | tj86430 [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
There is a world amateur champion though: http://www.nihonkiin.or.jp/amakisen/wor ... esult.html |
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| Author: | Laman [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 2:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is our Magnus Carlsen??? |
sixko wrote: it would be nice to know who is the current top player by ranking at least. actually i've thought about this not long ago. it would be possible to build up a database (my idea was based on european go database, as i am most familiar with that) where would be profesional games played in CKJT and internationaly and so all players would be rated and ranked. it is very well possible someone already tried this. there could be little trouble with a good supply for the games, but if there wouldn't be anything better, Mr. Kin's page could be sufficient at least for the top players. |
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| Author: | dfan [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is our Magnus Carlsen??? |
Laman wrote: sixko wrote: it would be nice to know who is the current top player by ranking at least. actually i've thought about this not long ago. it would be possible to build up a database (my idea was based on european go database, as i am most familiar with that) where would be profesional games played in CKJT and internationaly and so all players would be rated and ranked. it is very well possible someone already tried this. Yep - here's one from 2006 and one from 2008. |
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| Author: | hyperpape [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:49 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Unfortunately, the ProGoR always seemed suspect to me. I've spoken up for Japanese players many times, but I think it's clear that the results on the international stage don't justify the many high ranking Japanese players. I suspect that the number of international games is small enough that you'd need to tweak the algorithm to deal with these relatively self-contained cohorts. No idea how you'd do that, though. |
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| Author: | Stefany93 [ Sat Sep 25, 2010 9:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
Thank you very much, guys. It is a pity that the Go world do not have a world champion, but things change, you know 
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| Author: | emeraldemon [ Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
I just want to agree with nagano's list. The best go player in the world almost certainly one of those 4. I posted a somewhat similar thread here: viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1377 |
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| Author: | nagano [ Sun Sep 26, 2010 5:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Who is the current world Go champion? |
emeraldemon wrote: I just want to agree with nagano's list. The best go player in the world almost certainly one of those 4. I posted a somewhat similar thread here: http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewto ... =13&t=1377 Interesting... I looked at that other thread, and I see you put Chang Hao at #5, which I was going to do, but left it off because I was uncertain. For instance, some younger players, Park Junghwan in particular, are quite strong. Chang Hao probably deserves the spot at the moment, though somehow I think not for much longer. |
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