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How many active and historic professionals are there?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 4:54 pm
by bugcat
GoRatings lists 892 active professionals with at least one game on Go4Go. Wikidata records 951 total people with "Go professional" as their occupation. Sensei's Library apparently has entries for over 2,000 total professionals, which surprised me.
Do we have other statistics? From GoGoD?
Re: How many active and historic professionals are there?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:20 pm
by John Fairbairn
The GoGoD Onomasticon has over 4,500 entries. Some are for journalists, poets, amateurs, shoguns etc but nearly all are for pros or equivalents (e.g. guoshous) spanning nearly 2,000 years.
Re: How many active and historic professionals are there?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:41 pm
by bugcat
Wow, that's a lot!
Re: How many active and historic professionals are there?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:21 am
by aeb
bugcat wrote:Do we have other statistics?
The
Japanese rank progression page has 908 names. My
collection of (mainly Japanese) pro go game records has 3582 distinct names (where different names sometimes belong to the same player).