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How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:06 am
by chef
I'm just wondering how many stones people on the board have improved ever since becoming a member? And that includes the old GD board as well.
Personally when I came on I was about a 25 kyu. I'm now 8 kyu on KGS
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:14 am
by 1986
i gained 2 stones on wbaduk and about 8 on kgs
this site is very helpful, its kinda like a newspaper
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:07 am
by robinz
I've gained about 4/5 stones in my KGS grade since I joined. (I started playing in about June last year, joined this forum in September/October by which time I was about 13k; I'm 9k on KGS now but I really don't think I'm as "good" as that, looking at the games I've played over the last 2 or 3 weeks.)
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:46 am
by DrStraw
Hard to say because I don't play over the board any more (and online ranking are not really reliable) but I would guess about -1 stone.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:52 am
by daal
I'm up 11 stones, having moved from 17k when joining GD to 6k now. Thanks GD & L19!
I wouldn't mind a couple more though...
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:54 am
by karaklis
I started with 15k. Now I am 7k, so it's an improvement of 8 stones.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:56 am
by Kirby
I guess my strength - or lack thereof - is displayed via my malkovich games.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:10 am
by quantumf
Kirby wrote:I guess my strength - or lack thereof - is displayed via my malkovich games.
Since you started posting on GD, you haven't improved at all? I doubt that!
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:13 am
by quantumf
I seem to recall being 3k when I first joined GD, and am 1d now.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:14 am
by topazg
My first post was a long time ago, just after I'd created OGS and was advertising it. I was maybe 25k then, so call it 25 stones I guess
I didn't regularly post until much later.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:16 am
by hyperpape
I have gotten somewhat worse--between half a stone and a stone. Actually, I've gotten much worse if you go by my KGS rank, but I've been playing lunchtime blitz games, and I hope it's just a case of distraction.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 8:52 am
by Bill Spight
My challenge now is
not to make shodan.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:12 am
by freegame
I looked it up.
I registered on GoDiscussions on 26-4-2006. According to the EGD database I was EGF 7 kyu at that time.
I'm now EGF 2dan.
8 stones
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:19 am
by Shaddy
I started lurking on GD around May 2009- I was 4k at that time, and now I'm 2-3d KGS.
Re: How strong are you now?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 12:22 pm
by judicata
According to my first post on L19 in April, I said I was around 15 kyu, and my KGS graph says 17 kyu. I'm KGS 5 kyu now, so about 10-12 stones.
I was watching a show yesterday ("Heavy") in which a guy loses 50 lbs (23kg maybe?), and they hand him a 50 lbs weight to carry to illustrate how much he lost. Holding a dozen stones in my hand isn't quite the same thing, but still kinda neat.
EDIT: That was about the same time I started going to the New York Go Center, which is now closed.
