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Scrabble babble

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Monday, 22 November 2010, at 10:02 p.m.

In Response To: Scrabble babble (Stick)

In Chess, "Master" level starts at 2200. I hadn't yet reached Master level when I stopped playing 30 years ago, but close. (I felt it was easily within my grasp.)

I've paid little attention to the subject of Elo ratings (it doesn't especially interest me), but I'll quote from this site, where the world's best Go player is estimated at 2900 equivalent Chess rating:

    Go rating with ELO

    As in other sports where it is not practical to hold an all-against-all championship to establish who is strongest (Chess, statistical Backgammon, physical Racquetball etc.) a statistical method is employed. The ELO rating system is nowadays often used in Go (see also external links). An average 1 dan should have Go Rating about 2100 and the difference between grades is set to 100. Hence, a rating of 2100 would coincide with an amateur 1 dan who has a 2/3 winning chance against just anyone with a recent rating of 2000 (an average 1 kyu, a recently improved 2 kyu or, e.g. a 1 dan who has lost many games and so rating points).

So, to answer your inquiry/speculation, my Go rating is high 5-dan (I peaked at low 6d). If the above game-to-game comparison is correct, my Go rating equivalent to Chess is about 2550, upper International Master level, though I'll have to admit I don't at all feel like one when I watch the real pros play. Grandmaster is 2600+.

I'll leave it up to Kit to estimate my rating at Color Lines.

Nack

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