I'm not sure if that's always the best way of looking at it since I think most professional dan titles are accomplishment based instead of a measurement of comp

I'm not sure if that's always the best way of looking at it since I think most professional dan titles are accomplishment based instead of a measurement of comparative skill. That said, Europe is not the top of the world in Go playing, so while it's notable that Fan Hui represents professional play above beating 9ds on KGS, it may still be a long slog before it can approach Chinese, Korean, or Japanese professionals.