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According to Webster's Dictionary:

oriental adjective
ori·​en·​tal | \ˌȯr-ē-ˈen-tᵊl \
Definition of oriental (Entry 1 of 2)
1 or Oriental : of, relating to, or situated in the orient
2 or Oriental : of, relating to, or coming from Asia and especially eastern Asia
oriental food
oriental art
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Second, you are trying to badger me into changing my native language (which is not American). I had the same experience with 'oriental'. An American admin here asked me to stop using it because some Chinese people in America didn't like it. He preferred 'Asian'. I pointed out that 'Asian' here in ...

This is anecdotal and not evidence for anything. Every generation (and country) has had players who resign earlier or later than their peers. Without looking anything up I can take you back as far as the 1930s: Miyasaka Shinji was prone to resign if he fell behind by a small amount. Sakata didn't ...

3. Your arguments on the internet make sense, as far as I can see, and they have also been made to explain the quick rise of Magnus Carlsen, but none of that seems to explain the discrepancy in age profiles between chess and go (which was my main question).


As I pointed out in my previous post ...

Brooklyn: Your ideas are interesting, thank you, and possibly correct, but I do have some reservations:

1. To posit a change in behaviour I think you need to offer a reason for it. Maybe the rise of tv go is enough of an explanation, maybe the increasing number of games under Chinese rules ...

2. The style of play has changed in go. In chess there is really only one way to win a game - checkmate. In go you can win either large-scale, by killing something big or amassing a huge territory, or small-scale - eking out a small territorial win. It seems from the record number of B+R/W+R ...

You could be correct, Brooklyn, but I think your argument over-simplifies the situation. Obviously, all other things being equal (variance in population, etc.), it is more difficult to achieve #1 out of a higher population. But there are many important yet unquantifiable variables that play into ...

Kind of reminds me of debates about the best basketball player between Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Jordan has argued that basketball is a different game today than it was during his prime, and LeBron argues that he's simply more skilled.

I feel both sides of the argument have merit. On one ...

Kind of reminds me of debates about the best basketball player between Michael Jordan and LeBron James. Jordan has argued that basketball is a different game today than it was during his prime, and LeBron argues that he's simply more skilled.

I feel both sides of the argument have merit. On one ...

Brooklyn, it's possible that in the future Ke Jie peak will be decreased to less than 3600 since goratings use Whole History Rating.

My personal indicator is how long the number one can maintained his top position. So in Ke Jie case I'll have to wait and see for at least twelve years. Meanwhile ...

Go4Go records Ke Jie as having a lifetime 71.1% winning percentage, which is pretty insane.

Actually this seems par for the course, if you are the top player. We'll have to wait a while for Ke Jie to decline with age, but if you take only peak periods, Yi Ch'ang-ho was over 80% at one point, and ...

But the more important point is that each country's system reflects other country-specific cultural or social factors. In the case of Japan, the apparent bias against young players has been compensated for by longevity of one's career. In contrast, just recall how many young shooting stars there ...