The International Shogi Ladder

The present ladder (14-10-2006:9:15:52) rankings and ongoing games

Position Grade Name Country E-mail Now playing vs Played games Max nr of games Away until
1 5 Dan Chiaki Ito VZK01345 at niftyserve.or.jp 68 3 2 2455
2 4 Dan Stephen Lamb SJL at als.co.uk - 8 3 2187
3 4 Dan Manabu Terao mt_shogi at lycos.ne.jp 23, 10, 23 1 3 2154
4 4 Dan Marc Theeuwen marc_theeuwen at mail.amsinc.com - 6 3 2153
5 3 Dan Susumu Hara cao84970 at pop01.odn.ne.jp - 14 3 2090
6 4 Dan George Fernandez g.fernandez at mindspring.com 106 3 3 2090
7 2 Dan Bill Gaudry bgaudry at yahoo.com - 5 1 2059
8 3 Dan Hiroki Kawada kawada at merl.hitachi.co.jp - 3 3 2014
9 3 Dan Michael Trent mrshogi at telinco.co.uk - 2 2 1997
10 2 Dan Carl Johan Nilsson carl_johan.nilsson at telia.com 3 3 1865
11 3 Dan Pieter Stouten stouten at shogi.net - 2 1 1844
12 3 Dan Yoshiaki Nakanishi gimei at rainbow.plala.or.jp 99 3 3 1839
13 1 Dan Alan R. Baker arb40 at hermes.cam.ac.uk 98 4 3 1810
14 3 Dan Atsushi Fukuchi afuku at biglobe.ne.jp - 3 3 1713
15 2 Dan Thomas Majewski Thomas.Majewski at wabco-auto.com 49 8 3 1709
16 1 Dan Martin Danerud martin.danerud at partille.mail.telia.com 106, 76 2 3 1628
17 1 Kyu John Kenney kenney at ifa.au.dk - 1 1 1573
18 1 Kyu Eduard Werner edi.werner at gmx.de - 10 2 1558
19 1 Kyu Kees Wiebering c.a.wiebering at hetnet.nl 44 3 1520
20 3 Kyu csca_captain at hotmail.com - 3 1491
21 1 Kyu George Marino geo709 at aol.com - 4 1467
22 2 Kyu Konstantin Nikonov nikonov at elsite.ru 92 2 3 1465
23 1 Kyu Zeev Shapiro urufu at 012.net.il 3, 3 32 5 1458
24 -- James Zyduck james.zyduck at xcelenergy.com - 16 3 1395
25 3 Kyu Yury Shpilev shpilev at yahoo.com - 6 3 1381
26 4 Kyu Pavel Salnikov psalnikov at hotmail.com 123 8 3 1380
27 3 Kyu Malcom Maynard vindaloo at uniserve.com - 2 3 1358
28 3 Kyu Lawrence Chai chaimj at singnet.com.sg - 2 3 1358
29 5 Kyu Andrew Wood aswlwood at singnet.com.sg - 3 3 1353
30 5 Kyu Thomas Allen Giles gandalfthegrey at deepsojourner.info - 0 3 1350
31 3 Kyu Allen Giles tag at olg.com - 3 3 1348
32 5 Kyu Viktoria Ryasnyanskaya shogi at ambernet.kiev.ua 65 0 3 1314
33 6 Kyu Paul Andersson paul.a at home.se - 7 3 1305
34 4 Kyu Florian Guzek guzek at noos.fr - 3 1285
35 3 Kyu Harold Shore shorem at fiu.edu - 4 3 1257
36 2 Kyu Josh Krekeler joshxles at one.net 51 3 3 1256
37 2 Kyu Takeshi Miyao miyao at omika.austin.ibm.com 39 1 3 1255
38 2 Kyu Mitto Oda oda at kobe-u.ac.jp - 3 1255
39 4 Kyu Robert Scott Bernal at bronze.coil.com 37 3 1255
40 10 Kyu Graeme Carey gcarey at aol.com 70 5 6 1199
41 7 Kyu Ralf Lundberg ralf at cs.chalmers.se - 5 1 1142
42 10 Kyu Tor Gammelgard f98toga at dd.chalmers.se - 1 3 1024
43 10 Kyu Enrico Tognoni etognoni at inwind.it - 2 3 1021
44 10 Kyu Alan Sawyer amsawyer at bellatlantic.net 19 1 3 985
45 8 Kyu Leonard Hirsch leninstein at yahoo.com - 2 3 984
46 8 Kyu Marco Durante durante at na.infn.it - 9 3 976
47 10 Kyu Hans van Velzen hans.vanvelzen at wanadoo.nl - 8 2 960
48 11 Kyu Jens Müller-Koppe mkoppe at uni-bremen.de - 3 956
49 8 Kyu Daniel Többens toebbens at hmi.de 15 3 2 918
50 11 Kyu Joakim Andersson JoakimAndersson at swipnet.se - 5 3 902
51 10 Kyu Florian Kressing florian at t-online.de 36 5 3 834
52 10 Kyu Simon Wilcock simonrwilcock at aol.com - 7 3 755
53 -- Victor Barykin matheux at km.ru - 10 3 586
54 9 Kyu Jaap Boender jaapb at kerguelen.org 65 2 3 491
55 15 Kyu Roland Johansson roland.johansson at mbox2.swipnet.se 65, 116, 65, 126 4 3 463
56 -- Tony Berrocoso tberrocoso at yahoo.com 65 8 3 453
57 -- Rasa Miseikyte rasike at gmx.de - 7 3 451
58 -- Justin Prestidge pxq at iname.com - 5 3 443
59 -- Fernando Moscoso fmoscos at uio.telconet.net 65, 65 3 3 440
60 -- John Kubby johnkubby@yahoo.com - 1 3 439
61 -- Hugh Denoncourt dahuge at yahoo.com 65 3 1 434
62 -- Gordon Baldwin baldgordon at gmail.com 112 7 2 427
63 -- Brian Bajuk brian.bajuk at asu.edu - 1 3 420
64 -- Carole Kentros carole at otenet.gr 115 2 3 420
65 -- Ludovic Jeantot jantet87 at wanadoo.fr 59, 61, 55, 56, 117, 121, 129, 54, 32, 73, 114, 121, 59, 124, 55, 117, 130, 124, 128 24 3 417
66 -- Joseph Peterson jpeters at easystreet.com - 4 2 415
67 -- Kerry Handscomb conniekerry at sprint.ca - 1 1 400
68 -- Kevin Delashmit KDelash107 at aol.com 1 6 2 400
69 -- Kevin Loughran Kevlar56 at aol.com 130 3 400
70 -- Andrew Okun aokun at glowwormpub.com 40, 105 4 3 400
71 -- Jon Slate jonslate at etals.com - 2 3 400
72 -- James Gardner boginman at juno.com 116, 112, 116 3 2 400
73 -- Michael Na Li lina at u.washington.edu 65 1 3 400
74 -- Phil Miesle mieslep at mtn.org - 3 400
75 -- Joshua Ferguson josh_df at yahoo.com - 2 3 400
76 -- Anthony Maschinot t6661313 at ndak.net 16, 106 1 3 400
77 -- Kristopher Larsen larsen at levee.wustl.edu - 1 3 400
78 -- Martin Jacoby tryworks at pacbell.net - 2 3 400
79 2 Kyu Walter Vereertbrugghen veewee at compaqnet.be - 0 3 400
80 -- Jan Pitot japit at wanadoo.fr - 0 3 400
81 -- Tim Steggall t_steggall at yahoo.com.au - 0 3 400
82 -- Leon Wooldridge leonwool at fibermail.hu - 0 1 400
83 -- Jean Pijet oncljan at laposte.net - 0 3 400
84 -- Pierre Jason pijason at wanadoo.fr - 0 3 400
85 -- Hans Henriksson henriksson.hans at home.se - 0 3 400
86 -- Jean Arberg jeanp_a@yahoo.fr - 0 3 400
87 -- Meryl Rutz redbaron80@earthlink.net - 0 3 400
88 -- Kelvin Cletheroe kelvin.cletheroe@uleth.ca - 0 3 400
89 -- Todd Ogden ogden at math.sc.edu 123 3 400
90 -- Toshin Go masumigo at mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp - 6 3 400
91 -- Philip Walker philwalker_wba at yahoo.com - 2 3 400
92 -- Mick Jones snowbal_2 at yahoo.com 22 2 3 400
93 -- Tsuyoshi tsuyoshi_ncc23 at hotmail.com - 3 400
94 -- Robert Favel rhfavel at telus.net - 15 1 400
95 -- Mark Geez markgeez1 at hotmail.com 122 1 3 400
96 -- Tony Wu tonywu at cyber-wizard.com - 4 3 400
97 -- Mikael Hansson warren_smash_jr at hotmail.com - 3 400
98 -- Wataru Araki araki at ncnaxp.ncnp.go.jp 13 5 2 400
99 -- Bob Price bpricem at gaea.ocn.ne.jp 12 3 400
100 -- Nobuyoshi Fujimoto fujimoto at rd.tksc.nasda.go.jp - 1 3 400
101 -- Kaj Falinder kaj_falinder at hotmail.com - 3 400
102 -- Michel Valdrighi amnihs at yahoo.fr - 1 3 400
103 -- Juan Benito jbenimaz at yahoo.es 117 0 3 400
104 -- Anthony Kam antkam at athena.mit.edu - 10 3 400
105 -- John Gaunt MASKofNOH at aol.com 70 3 3 400
106 -- George G. Jost gjost at ca.newbridge.com 76, 6, 16 3 400
107 -- Bruce Petherick bpetherick at touchcorp.com - 2 3 400
108 -- Graham Allen goalkeeper183 at cox.net 118 3 400
109 -- Ignacio F. Suarez Boville ignacio at informaticosmix.com - 3 400
110 -- Hiro Wind tag at pb3.so-net.ne.jp - 1 3 400
111 -- Victor Fraser vcfraser@eastlink.ca - 1 3 360
112 -- Darren Paull dpaull at vtown.com.au 62, 72, 125 1 360
113 -- Tania Macdonald tania_macdonald_92 at hotmail.com - 1 3 359
114 -- Dennis Paul Himes himes at cshore.com 65 5 3 348
115 -- Norbert Fogarasi nfogaras at yahoo.com 123, 64 3 344
116 -- Louis Joun clark33 at wanadoo.fr 72, 129, 55, 72, 129 1 10 343
117 -- Joao Pedro Pedroso jpp at fc.ul.pt 65, 103, 65 2 3 337
118 -- John P. Rivenburg jrivenb1 at twcny.rr.com 108 3 333
119 -- Tyler Heydolph t_heydolph at hotmail.com 122, 128 1 3 330
120 -- K. Ammon PK at amo7.freeserve.co.uk - 4 3 322
121 -- Rick Brown pbm4rb at sonic.net 65, 65 2 314
122 -- David Blake dblake78 at aol.com 128, 95, 119 7 3 305
123 -- Pierre Morteux pmorteux at wanadoo.fr 115, 89, 26 18 30 31-12-2004 295
124 -- Lee Edwards shogun418 at yahoo.co.uk 65, 65 14 3 223
125 14 Kyu Juan Pablo Schweitzer thegameexpert at hotmail.com 112 3 3 177
126 15 Kyu Zac Sparx krinid at yahoo.com 55, 128 3 154
127 -- Nicola Caridi n.caridi at fastwebnet.it - 12 3 151
128 -- The Badger thebadger at uwalumni.com 65, 119, 126, 122 5 3 141
129 -- Shuenn Chyn Chin shuenn_chyn at astro.com.my 116, 65, 116 9 3 132
130 -- Gerold Graf tamariske.graf6 at utanet.at 65, 69 2 80


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