Life In 19x19

If you followed the game, then you can tell where stones are buried. I am not confident that I can avoid off-by-one errors with that, though.
But at the end of the game, you can do button scoring: remember whether White passed first, then do area scoring, and if White passed first, add 1 to White's ...

And as for "mistakenly thought they were leading" --

I remember Takemiya saying that any player worth his salt didn't need to know how many prisoners were off the board. You just counted 2 points instead of 1 point for each point where a stone had been captured (with ko captures cancelling out ...

My own view is that rules such as the one here were probably drawn up not to discriminate against anyone but simply to avoid arguments over cheating. However, in cases such as major title matches, cheating by messing around with prisoners is surely impossible. The games are televised and recorded ...

Hey, this seems interesting with lots of good contents :bow:

However your episodes are quite long and sometimes I would just like to listen to certain segments of an episode. The thing is that it is often rather difficult to navigate into those parts.

I have a suggestion:
Could you add segments ...

Some recent changes in female rankings:
- Ueno Asami has gained some ground and moved closer to Fujisawa Rina. However the gap (40 points) is still considerable. Dont expect to see big changes, unless Sumire manages to defeat Fujisawa Rina in their upcoming match.
- Nakamura Sumire has recently ...

About the use of old and new games in the algorithm, I'd like to explain something better:
from what I read in the paper, all games taken into account have the same weight in the result of the algorithm. goratings.org is based on that paper. but perhaps only games newer than some time are taken ...

My question earlier, about whole-history ratings, is whether that way of looking at ratings obscures the significance of players (forget daily strength). It seems to me, prima facie, that it brings in troughs as well as peaks, and so flattens out a player's profile. Very wrongly, I feel. If you ...

According to the WHR description as used in goratings.org, all games played by all players are taken into account. So, if Rui Naiwei played and won a lot, and then nearly stopped playing, she doesn't get a lot of punishment. The usual is that an active player wins more games in its prime, then ...

She was actually top 30 at the beginning of the year, according to this .
The historical ratings are not fixed. If she wins a few games now, all the historical ratings will get higher too. For example, in this post on 15th March she was only ranked #35 in the same beginning of the year ranking ...

With the recent success in preliminaries, Sumire has broken into top 30 female players! She is now #28 globally and #4 in Japan (having passed Xie Yimin)!

An update:
I added most of the missing birthdays! Some birthdays still only have the year part only! Feel free to contribute!

To get the latest data, please, re-do the step1 in the post #4

pajaro wrote:Has he replied?

He replied. Unfortunately he is too busy at the moment. Maybe he has more time in the future.

However, you can use my scripts as a workaround, (Or if someone else comes up with a better solution )

There is some background here that I didn't know. But I have done some research. Wow, a nice comparison! :tmbup:

Here are the top 25 Japanese female players at the moment. It looks as if the next few years will be dominated by Fujisawa Rina, Ueno Asami and Nakamura Sumire. They are actually gonna ...

pajaro wrote:

Toukopouko wrote:

pajaro wrote:Have you tried submitting it to Rémi Coulom?

Hey thanks! I just sent him an email! Let's see what he thinks!

Has he replied?

Not yet. I emailed him on Saturday and it is only Monday. I will let you know

Great! I'm using brave for easy access to ecosia, perhaps I made an error somewhere pasting it into the console, or the name of the store is slightly different from chrome and other's window.localStorage.setItem, which is what I'm checking next . . .

Hmm! One thing I forgot in the instructions ...