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Ke Jie is the strongest go player. Sedol is the 5th strongest. http://www.goratings.org http://www.goratings.org The difference is 100 Elo, which is substanti
by beefman 11y ago
Ke Jie is the strongest go player. Sedol is the 5th strongest.
http://www.goratings.org http://www.goratings.org
The difference is 100 Elo, which is substantial.
Edit: Ke Jie has 700 Elo on Fan Hui. About the same as the gap between Magnus Carlsen and the strongest player at my local chess club.
- apetresc 11y agoIn the recent 5-game match between Jie and Sedol a few weeks ago, it was decided in Ke Jie's favour by less than a single point in the fifth game. It literally would have come out differently if they'd used a subtly different (commonly used) scoring ruleset. It's not at all clear who's stronger at their peak.
- beefman 11y agoNo, but it's clear who's stronger on average.
- Rylinks 11y agoWasn't the margin in the 5th game b+1.5?
- DavidSJ 11y agoKeep in mind that professionals are counting throughout the game, and are playing to win, not to win by a lot. So a 0.5 point victory may simply mean the victor was confident in their position and chose not to take unnecessary risks.
- hyperpape 11y agoI follow professional go. It's true that you play safely when you're ahead, which narrows the margin, but .5 is still considered tightly fought.
- iopq 11y agoThat's not true, because Ke Jie would not have played the dame points if Japanese scoring would be used.
- jibalt 11y agoRidiculous comparison, when the top Go ELO is 3620 and Carlson is 2882. 2182 isn't even a Master.