Life In 19x19

I trust you wits were offering similar clever comments while watching bigbadwolf play? Or Bigriver?

Easy, use a different system:

- +0.1 ranks for a win, -0.1 ranks for a loss.
- Ignore all handicap games (incl. those with handicap 1).
- Ignore games with a rank difference >2.
- Maximum rank 9d.[/quote]

I'm tempted to run a Monte Carlo simulation of such a system. Maybe I'll do, could be fun ...

I'm still waiting to see the first complaint from anyone that his rating hasn't gone down, even though he consistently loses 60% of his games.

Admins as drug dealers, and whether calling them 'dicks' is an insult or not? What a pretty place this conversation has arrived at.

It starts with a (relayed) transmission of the moves of one of the premier matches of the year - the sort of thing where various servers have different rules about ...

This discussion has moved from the ridiculous to the absurd. Not telling someone just how many hours he is banned from the server after he says "--- your mother" to his opponent is some form of "psychological torture?" Please.

For those who are adamant about this, I suggest that the next time a ...

I think that asking - or telling - one's opponent to resign is at least as rude as playing out the game when behind by a dozen or so points. The "you are wasting my time" argument has the clear implication that your time is more valuable than your opponent's.

Of course, anyone who has never seen ...

I'm on the AGA membership staff. And sometimes I'm on KGS, where *everyone* has heard your professional and teaching ambitions. Good luck with those.

Of course it's not too late.
But the truth is, you're not an AGA *anything* yet. You may say you think you deserve to be such-and-such a rank, or that so-and-so said you have some potential, but until you back it up, all people see is the talk. Maybe that's why you ran into the reaction you got in ...

Okay, does anyone else find it interesting that the guy who posted this only has one post? he wants to hide his identity to insult people, Funny considering by his logic the admins should tell me who he is.

But PLEASE stay on topic people. Is it okay for admins to publicly reveal # of accounts ...

You walk into a go club somewhere - say a pastry shop in New York or an ice cream parlor in North Carolina - and ask, "Does anyone want a game?"
"How strong are you?" asks the club secretary.
"I'd rather not tell," you say with a smile.
"It would be good to have an evenly matched game," says the ...