Managing Go Addiction - (serious)

[claire_yang]

People have been asking this question for more than a hundred year - abolishing Go games act in the early 20th century.

The history and evolution of kyu rank in Go game

With the knowledge of the existence of self-organizing local communities in the late 19th century, we can start to answer the first question I proposed: What was the population of Go players in the late 19th century to early 20th century and how did they change over the decades A first estimation can be done using the ratio comparing known members in regional lists with the giant 5000 players list. By cross-reference the names in them, I estimate the ratio is about 10 to 30 times (hundreds …

And the solution proposed back then was to tax them, like alcohol and tobacco.