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I don't know Fernando Aguilar but is the reason he's 6D not that he's capped at it before becoming professional? IIRC when I played in SF bay area (probably all

by wapz 9y ago

I don't know Fernando Aguilar but is the reason he's 6D not that he's capped at it before becoming professional? IIRC when I played in SF bay area (probably all of USA in the AGA), you couldn't get higher than 6D(7D?) without becoming a pro. I think in tournament lineup you would see something like Mr. A 6D (7.2) where the 7.2 was his estimated rating but it was a long time ago.

partycoder 9y ago
Not entirely sure about caps at the amateur level. At least go servers don't have such cap, and there's certain mapping between KGS ranks to offline amateur ranks. The highest attainable rank at Go servers is 9d, aguilar is 6d there. https://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=aguilar1 https://www.gokgs.com/graphPage.jsp?user=aguilar1 An informal mapping among ranking systems can be seen here: http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison http://senseis.xmp.net/?RankWorldwideComparison Servers usually manually override ranks for professional players... But going back to my point, a 9p should be consistently stronger than a 6 dan amateur, but these counterexamples challenge that.