gennan
January 29, 2021, 10:04pm
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but we do know the rank ceiling: and that is 9p for professionals and either 9d or 7d (depending on philosophy) for amateurs. Some servers add in 10d, but in the current philosophy of go there will not be a higher rank to achieve. Now, this is not the “pure” ceiling of the “perfect player”, but just the highest humanity has gone so far, and generally is expected to get stronger over time as the top players (and the average player) learns more and expands our knowledge of go.
I estimate that the perfect player is about 13d EGF, meaning that it can give about 3-4 stones handicap to the very top of human pros (at about 10d EGF).
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