Statistics from a 27M game sample

Trying to dig into teaching games.

There’s no flag about that, so I tried to filter on game name.
I looked for the string “teach” which could possibly appear in various combinations.
I’m keeping only 9x9 and 19x19 boards and considering both handicap and komi.

Here’s a summary:

Ranked
Board False True Total
9x9 1980 1841 3821
19x19 9713 2340 12053
Total 11693 4181 15874

About 9k games have actually a title such as “Teaching game” or similar.
Many are like “Please teach me” or “Looking for a teaching game” or “will teach new and high kyu” and so.

Some are… interesting? :smiley:
Such as

  • destroy the timeout losers! teach them how to resign!
  • Not here to teach, not here to learn, noone just another bot
  • ultimate teachin
  • beginners or teachers pls
  • Teaching Lesion for me
  • nick sibicky told me i have great talent for making go teachers sad
  • looking for a teacher-typeofthing | send me a message in the chat
  • three go teachers have given up on me so far
  • Teach Me and I’ll Teach You?

and so on :slight_smile:

Let’s see some charts: handicap VS komi.

9x9 ranked games.
Best part are no handicap, standard komi (5.5)

9x9 unranked
Same as before plus a few funny games with 500 komi or 50 handicap

Same chart but removing handicap > 9 and extreme komi:

19x19 ranked
Mainly standard options: no handicap with standard komi or handicap with 0.5 komi.
A single -40 komi game.

19x19 unranked
Some 9 handi with various komi. A few extreme values.

Same chart but removing handicap > 9 and extreme komi.
Standard combinations as seen for ranked games. Looks like reverse komi isn’t very popular on OGS.
Each small dot is 1 to 3 games in this chart.

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