I play as X kyu in the club and get about even results, but my strength in the table is very different from this. Why shouldn’t I just use my club grade?
This list is concerned with tournament entry grades rather than club grades. Club grades are an unreliable indicator of tournament entry grades because: • Club grades are often shifted away from the national averages. • Club games are played under different conditions from tournament games. For example, people may be allowed to take back silly moves; people may be distracted by other things going on at the meeting place; and so on. • People very often learn to deal with the styles of the people they play frequently, causing them to play better against these opponents than they do against the wider range of opponents they meet in tournaments.
