title: Complex network study of Asian Go players.
abstract: Tournaments of the game of Go can be represented as a directed network in which the vertices are players and a directed link is pointing from the winner to the loser for each game. In this article, we present some interesting results for the network of Asian Go players, which is composed of 756 Go players and 9473 tournaments. It is found that the topological structure of this network displays the small-world property and a significant rich-club phenomenon where high-degree nodes are tightly interconnected. In addition, we consider the weighted version of the network, and find the weights obey power-law distributions, while the strengths follow stretched exponential distributions. The time evolution of the network structure is studied and the corresponding results discussed. The analysis of this work provides a deeper understanding for the competition network structure of Asian Go players.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Particle Physics, HuaZhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China.
authors.forename: Xinping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Junhui
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Liu