According to the ratings page of provisional BKR players in Brainking.com, the number of shogi players who has provisional BKR decreased to 157 at the end of April(JST). The site has added shogi to its wide variety of game line since August 12, 2005(JST). Comparing with the end of March, 2007, the number of shogi players decreased by 3. Please refer to the definition of BKR(BrainKing Rating) if you like to know.
The details by country are as followings; .
USA --- 34(+2)
Czech --- 13(+1)
France --- 9(-1)
Netherland --- 9(0)
Russia --- 9(+3)
Slovakia --- 8(+4)
Portugal --- 7(+1)
Italy --- 6(-2)
Australia --- 5(-1)
England --- 4(-3)
Sweden --- 4(+1)
UK --- 4(-1)
Spain --- 3(+1)
Canada --- 2(-2)
Estonia --- 2(+1)
Germany --- 2(+1)
Japan --- 2(0)
Malaysia --- 2(+1)
Switzerland --- 2(-1)
Wales --- 2(+1)
Austria --- 1(-2)
Argentina --- 1(0)
Basque --- 1(0)
Belgium --- 1(-1)
Dominica --- 1(0)
Hong Kong --- 1(0)
Israel --- 1(0)
Latvia --- 1(0)
Luxembourg --- 1(0)
New Zealand --- 1(-1)
Norway --- 1(0)
South Africa --- 1(0)
Ukraine --- 1(0)
Unspecified --- 14(+1)
Hey Tako
Number of Thai players and forigners who come to play in Thaibg.com was also increasing in last period. :-)
Unfortunately, they have not enough material to study shogi.
For us who play routinely, shogi is so addictive... hahahaha
Posted by: YurikA Thaibg :-) | May 02, 2007 at 10:30 PM