From: "STOUTEN, PIETER [R&D/0467]" <pieter.stouten <at> PHARMACIA <dot> COM>
Date: 8 nov 2002
Subject: Re: ISF, 5-dans, Gert Schinder and Artem Kolomiyets

On Fri 8 Nov 2002 11:31 -0500, Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> COMCAST <dot> NET> wrote:

>>Well, that's a bit like saying it is quite fortunate for someone
>>to become Meijin from just one event of 7 games (and only having
>>to score 4/7).
>>
>I think this is a faulty analogy because Meijin is a temporary
>(1 year) title whereas 5 Dan is for life.
>
I disagree. My point was that winning the ISF is not that easy as one needs
to qualify first, just like one needs to win the Meijin-sen A group first in
order to become Meijin. Whatever title awaits one in the end (if any) was
not really important for the point I was trying to make.

>>the performance of Artem Kolomiyets of Ukraine there impressed me.
>>
>I played four ten-minute games with him besides our tournament
>game, and although I won them all, two were won with only a second
>or two left on my clock!  I feel that his strength after the
>opening is solidly 4 Dan, but his opening knowledge is very
>limited now and so he may not be quite ready to earn that rank
>yet, though certainly he is a strong 3 Dan at least.
>
The 4-dan bracket runs from an Elo rating of 2080 to 2240 (see
<http://www.shogi.net/fesa/rating.intro>), so Artem's rating of 2118 puts
him on the high end of the first quartile of that bracket, which is fully
consistent with your observation.

Ciao,

Pieter