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Professional dan ranks go up to 9th dan, but the strength difference between a 1st dan and a 9th dan professional is generally no more than 2–3 handicap stones. To distinguish between professional dan and amateur dan ranks, the former is often abbreviated to "p" (sometimes called ping) and the latter to "d". There was no such abbreviation in ...
Professional player ranks start at 4 dan and go up to 9 dan. There also used to be 10 dan ranking, but this is no longer used. Amateur players train to become professionals at one of the JSA's apprentice schools and are ranked from 6-kyū to 3-dan. Since only exceptionally strong amateur players are able to qualify for the shōreikai, it is ...
Lasker's book Go and Go-moku (1934) helped spread the game throughout the U.S., [97] and in 1935, the American Go Association was formed. Two years later, in 1937, the German Go Association was founded. World War II put a stop to most Go activity, since it was a popular game in Japan, but after the war, Go continued to spread. [98]
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Jordan James capped off a 12-play drive that took 6:49 with a three-yard TD run to extend the lead back to two scores with 7:28 to go. Penn State cut Oregon’s lead to a score with 3:41 to go but ...
9 dan: A young and established Korean go professional. He reached 9 dan after 5 years, making him the youngest Korean 9 dan professional ever. 3 time world champion. Affiliate of the Hanguk Kiwon. Kim Dong-hee (김동희, 金東熙) 1985– 2 dan: Affiliate of the Hanguk Kiwon. Won Seong-jin (원성진, 元晟溱) 1985– 9 dan: Affiliate of ...
In October 2015, the distributed version of AlphaGo defeated the European Go champion Fan Hui, [21] a 2-dan (out of 9 dan possible) professional, five to zero. [ 6 ] [ 22 ] This was the first time a computer Go program had beaten a professional human player on a full-sized board without handicap. [ 23 ]