Life In 19x19

According to KGS Analytics, I'm going to finish the year (assuming I don't play any more games today, which is likely), with 417 wins for 419 losses (ranked games only; 488-506 if I count free games, which I play, at times, to try new stuff out). I don't know what that says, other than that, while my rank increased about a stone and a half, I guess I was evenly ranked by KGS during the entire period.

with my main account :
ranked : 241 wins, 162 losses
all: 384 wins, 291 losses

with my drunk/ill/bah account :
ranked: 130 wins, 96 losses
all: 159 wins, 119 losses

so a total of 543 wins and 410 losses, making 953 games. I won't try to estimate the time elapsed, that would be too scary.

I had exactly one loss against you.


Now, what does all that mean ? Probably not much.

lorill wrote:I won't try to estimate the time elapsed, that would be too scary.

Nearly 1000 games, given that I often play fast-ish games, probably comes to around 20-30 minutes a game. So that's between 300 and 500 hours... A lot of time for a hobby.

http://kgs.gosquares.net/index.rhtml.en?id=perception
My record starting from when I registered my account on kgs in December 2009 is 60 wins to 47 losses. So that's 107 games total and I've gone from around 21k to around 1k in that time.

kirkmc wrote: ... A lot of time for a hobby.

Is it? About 8 hours per week, on average...

I always wonder about time spent (invested? wasted?) on Go-related activities. Is it a worthwhile use of time? I guess it depends on what you get out of it (pleasure, excitement, improvement, camaraderie, intellectual stimulation, etc.) and what you may be giving up -- the opportunity cost of that time, if you will. What might you do with those hours... A different hobby? Family/relationships? Work/earning money? Books/education? The list is virtually endless. So those hours of Go, I think, are only a lot of time if you are losing something of greater value.

My numbers (hours of Go) are much, much lower... which (I hope accurately) reflects that other activities are of greater value for me these days.

To be fair, I have an advantage that many others don't; I work at home, as a freelancer, and I have enough free time during the day to play a couple of games every day (on average). So I'm not limited to evenings; in fact, I hardly ever play in the evening. I often use go as a way to take a break from work, so I'm not really losing anything by playing go.

One interesting thing I learned from KGS analytics: I've won 63% of my games vs. weaker players, but only 43% vs. stronger players, even with handicap & komi adjustment (mostly no komi games, I rarely play handicap on KGS). This seems to suggest maybe the rank gaps are a bit larger than they should be: some of the people who gave me no-komi should probably have given me two stones, and some of the people I gave no komi should have taken two stones. I wonder if others have this pattern?

http://kgs.gosquares.net/index.rhtml.en?id=greendemon&r=1

emeraldemon wrote:One interesting thing I learned from KGS analytics: I've won 63% of my games vs. weaker players, but only 43% vs. stronger players, even with handicap & komi adjustment (mostly no komi games, I rarely play handicap on KGS). This seems to suggest maybe the rank gaps are a bit larger than they should be: some of the people who gave me no-komi should probably have given me two stones, and some of the people I gave no komi should have taken two stones. I wonder if others have this pattern?

http://kgs.gosquares.net/index.rhtml.en?id=greendemon&r=1

I'm 55% vs weaker players, and only 42% against stronger players. I don't exactly know what that means, but I very rarely play and handicap games, so that's generally within one stone.

Main account:
306-133 ~70%

Would get stats for my alt account, but can't look them up on KGS because of the ridiculous request quota for game records.

Also fun to note, went from 12k to 1k this year

Main account: (10 min games): 99 - 68 (59%)

For me in 2010: W 59 / L 23 / P 72%

emeraldemon wrote:One interesting thing I learned from KGS analytics: I've won 63% of my games vs. weaker players, but only 43% vs. stronger players, even with handicap & komi adjustment (mostly no komi games, I rarely play handicap on KGS). This seems to suggest maybe the rank gaps are a bit larger than they should be: some of the people who gave me no-komi should probably have given me two stones, and some of the people I gave no komi should have taken two stones. I wonder if others have this pattern?

this is a common phenomen, since usual handicap system is actually half stone smaller than it should be for even chances - check senseis for more

my statistics are 51% with handicap and 72% against handicap. but more interesting is that i have only over 900 games in total (since 2008-04), and in comparison with kirkmc's statistics it indicates i should train harder

I only play on DGS and mostly only with friends in non-serious games. Last year I had 80 wins and 43 losses for about a 65% record.

All
312 - 91 (77%)

Black
144 - 36 (80%)

White
168 - 55 (75%)

Against H.
10 - 11 (48%)

DGS: 35/85 wins. Winning percentage 49% as black, 35% as white. Rank plummeted two stones.

While I didn't play on KGS for most of this year, recent data indicates I'm in the 4 kyu range, for a gain of two stones since last winter.