According to the ratings page of provisional BKR players in Brainking.com, the number of shogi players who has provisional BKR increased to 154 at the end of January(JST). The site has added shogi to its wide variety of game line since August 12, 2005(JST). Comparing with the end of December, 2006, the number of shogi players increased by 7. Please refer to the definition of BKR(BrainKing Rating) if you like to know.
The details by country are as followings; .
USA --- 32(+3)
Czech --- 14(0)
Netherland --- 10(+3)
Russia --- 8(+5)
Australia --- 7(+2)
Italy --- 7(+1)
England --- 5(-2)
France --- 5(-5)
Germany --- 5(+2)
Slovakia --- 5(-1)
Portugal --- 4(+1)
Sweden --- 4(0)
UK --- 4(0)
Canada --- 3(+1)
Spain --- 3(0)
Belgium --- 2(-1)
Japan --- 2(-2)
New Zealand --- 2(+1)
Switzerland --- 2(-2)
Argentina --- 1(0)
Basque --- 1(0)
Denmark --- 1(0)
Dominica --- 1(0)
Estonia --- 1(0)
Finland --- 1(0)
Hong Kong --- 1(0)
Israel --- 1(+1)
Jamaica --- 1(+1)
Latvia --- 1(0)
Luxembourg --- 1(0)
Malaysia --- 1(0)
Norway --- 1(-1)
Thailand --- 1(0)
Tibet --- 1(+1)
Ukraine --- 1(0)
Unspecified ---14 (+2)
Korea --- 0(-1)
Slovenia --- 0(-1)
Turkey --- 0(-1)
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