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Post #21 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 12:52 pm 
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Wow, I would LOVE to gain 2 stones every fortnight!! :)

Just don't give up, the good games will come faster than you can imagine!

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Post #22 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:46 pm 
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Actorios wrote:
mayweed wrote:
Long...

I heard some ppl saying that you keep losing consistently on a regular basis til 8k...



In fact, you necessarily win more than you lose on the medium term as long as you improve.
What is true is that a go club is usually mostly visited by high kyu or dan players (because you don't stay very long DDK). Overall, as a beginner, you can feel that most games played would be with handicap but you shouldn't worry that much about it. Little by little the handicap reduces.
On my experience, I would say it could take between a few months and a year to get to 8-9k KGS (obviously depends on your investment in the game).


Not necessarily true, it's only true if you stick with a single account or never self-promote.

In general, it takes a long time for the system to recognize a significant jump in strength, so many players just make a new account and play that one, which usually ends up being 50-50 until they have another jump in strength.

Put it this way, you could make a new account and win 40% of your games for a while, creating a steady downward trend, then, suddenly (as often happens) you jump in strength, and start winning 60% of your new games. You still bear the weight of the older games, so your overall winning percentage is below 50%, but your rank is more represented by your games in, say, the last month, rather than the last year. You make a new account, jump up to the new rank, and then hang at 50%, you now have more losses than wins, and yet you are stronger.

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Post #23 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 7:36 pm 
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Is that so? I thought KGS heavily weighted your most recent games.

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Post #24 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:37 am 
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Go has the hardest learning curve of any game that I have ever seen. What you are experiencing is normal. Hang in there, it will get better. It will be worth it in the long run.


Exactly. It took me a while to even understand the objective of the game. When I first started to play online, it was a totally humbling experience, and I was thoroughly hammered, back in the day when they had 30k rankings.

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Post #25 Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 10:33 pm 
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How long are you suppose to lose for


You're supposed to stop??? Nobody told me that!


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