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Go also benefits from a good handicap system, which allows players of differing strengths to play competitive games against each other. The system involves allowing the weaker player to start with some stones already on the board, the number increasing with the difference in the players' strengths.<ref>[http://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap Sensei's Library: Handicap]</ref>
Go also benefits from a good handicap system, which allows players of differing strengths to play competitive games against each other. The system involves allowing the weaker player to start with some stones already on the board, the number increasing with the difference in the players' strengths.<ref>[http://senseis.xmp.net/?Handicap Sensei's Library: Handicap]</ref>
==Professional Go==
Many people, mostly from eastern Asia play Go professionally. Their main source of income is winning tournaments and writing books. This can be extremely lucrative; the winner of the kisei tournament can win ¥42,000,000.<ref>http://senseis.xmp.net/?Kisei</ref>
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