From: Albyn Jones <jones <at> REED <dot> EDU>
Date: 13 dec 1995
Subject: Re: IGS/ISS thread

>I am not sure what shogi specific features there are.  However, I
>intend this to be a shogi server.  In other words how IGS deals
>with shogi is how ISS should deal with Go (if at all).  There is
>no real reason to have Go as part of an existing server....  I
>could be proven wrong later, but this is my intent.
>
>The only problem I have so far is about ratings.  I am not sure what
>the rating should be for shogi.  Even if they should be the same basic
>set up but with different names.

there should be no significant differences in the rating algorithm.
one question is: what is the nominal difference between ranks?  in
go i believe that a one stone difference in rank is presumed to
correspond to a winning probability of 2/3 for the higher ranked player.
is the traditional ranking system in shogi based on the same assumption?

albyn
jones <at> reed <dot> edu