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Not very often, because KGS is in decline. Also not very often because many of the players strong enough to hold 9d don't play during EST evening hours. http://www.gokgs.com/top100.jsp Most of the 9d in that list are either socially known alts for strong players, or have long histories on kgs. (i.e., Sweetrip for the former category, and kghin in the latter category). The same goes for the not so large list of 8d and 7d. If you look at their games in the archive, you can judge how legitimate the records are for yourself. But if you haven't seen many of them play yourself, why talk trash about them? Most of the games between the strong players are blitz, just like on every other go server east or west. But not all of them - you should be able to find slow games in the history of most of the players in that list. There's nothing instrinsic to KGS's ranking system preventing strong players from meeting to play frequently, there has just been a gradual decline in the population of strong players over most of the past decade. The strong players who are left still come because they have been playing each other for years and enjoy the social setting of the server. You might be convinced that some of the blitz players on KGS have artificially inflated ranks due to blitz nonsense, but I would disagree that the majority of them are meaningfully weaker than similarly ranked players on any other major server.
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Take for example rapyuta: http://www.gokgs.com/gameArchives.jsp?user=rapyuta&year=2007&month=9&oldAccounts=y Rumored to be insei, came to KGS to play marathon blitz sessions and ruined everybody. I was logged on for most of the games in that list - around that time, I was on KGS every day and would see 9d and 8d games all the time. I guess some of them play on Tygem and WBaduk now, or maybe they only play in clubs. Probably a few of them aren't playing frequently anywhere - most players who reach 9d do it at a young age, and some of them probably spend most of their time doing other stuff after they become adults.
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o.m. 94 posted:Just think about it as your opponents also make misclicks and gently caress up when they should have won so it evens out in the long run. This goes for really dumb mistakes too, lot of improvement in go is just widening the definition of what a dumb mistake is and then trying your best not to make em anymore
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i added you in. hello again thread
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those are good books.
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drat
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waht the hell is a joseki farm. cant stop clickning ah its kogos. this si why it is full of strange patterns
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community games suck. ascii boards also suck. play game on server and we can discuss it, or at least use pictures
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oGS sux
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I've emailed the KGS admins about ITGO. Maybe it will return.
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Both gone..
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wew nearly 10 years in played some go yesterday lads. was alright
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cheers mate
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I fixed the discord link, thank u xom
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