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What is the actual world ranking of Fan Hui
Just to add a few notes in addition to Pieter's answer, and with a hint to your implied question (can AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol?):
First off, I'm not sure if you thought being 9p automatically means ...
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What is the actual world ranking of Fan Hui
I believe your information comes from this unofficial rating system:
http://www.goratings.org/
Fan Hui's page on that site:
http://www.goratings.org/players/1480.html
Fan Hui only only played a ...
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What board and card games have full-time professional players?
Duplicate bridge certainly has full-time professional players who earn their living playing, although most of them are also teachers, and play with students for pay. There at least used to be ...
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What board and card games have full-time professional players?
I won't give a list since a list will keep changing. Rather, I'll give a method to find these games.
Go to https://www.twitch.tv/, which is the most popular platform used by streamers to stream ...
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What board and card games have full-time professional players?
There are a number of Magic: the Gathering players who derive all their income from the game, whether that be:
A direct contract from Wizards of the Coast, given to the players with the best ...
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Mysterious move
I will concentrate on the question 3 vs. a. While a move at a will also settle black's top left group, it helps the two white stones to make shape and build up pressure towards blacks top right corner....
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What is the actual world ranking of Fan Hui
Is there any official and accessible world ranking ?
No; Rankings are done by national Go organizations, with some variance existing between them.
What is the exact rank of Fan Hui ?
As reported ...
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