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From: hwc@sigma.UUCP (wah Chan)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,sci.psychology,rec.games.go
Subject: Re: kyu?
Message-ID: <1592@sigma.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 16:25:07 GMT
References: <1257@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1046@cod.NOSC.MIL> <1021@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Reply-To: hwc@sigma.UUCP (Hon-wah Chan)
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In article <1021@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
>In article <1046@cod.NOSC.MIL> jscosta@cod.NOSC.MIL (Joseph S. Costa) writes:
>My understanding is that, roughly, dan means "black belt," whereas kyu
>means "below black belt." Numerically, go rankings are on a scale from
>-30 to about 8 or 9, where below zero is kyu, and above 0 is dan. 

rankings for  amateur players - 30 kyu to 7 dan; for professional
players - 1 dan to 9 dan

>To the net: who knows how many stones say a 5-dan
>professional would give a 5-dan ametuer?
>

around 3 to 4 stones for US 5 dan amateur.
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Honwah Chan 	{ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!hwc