How Go professionals survive

Jeremy asked how much a pro can make and who would be mad enough to put up money for tournaments:

All prizes listed are for winners; in Korea (at least) all participants are paid something.

Japan-only; major titles:

Title	Winner's prize	Sponsor
Kisei	$355,000	from 1976, Yomiuri Daily newspaper
Meijin	$330,000	1612-1940, Japanese gov't; restarted 1958, currently Asahi Daily newspaper
Honinbo	$280,000	1612-1940, Japanese gov't; since 1941, Mainichi Daily newspaper
Judan	$126,000	from 1962, Sankei Daily newspaper
Tengen	$122,000	from 1976, Nishinippon Daily newspaper
Oza	$118,000	from 1953, Nihon Keizai Daily newspaper
Gosei	$67,000	from 1976, Chugoku Daily newspaper

• There at least 27 current minor titles in Japan alone (various sponsors, including NEC, Ricoh, Daiwa, and IBM (now defunct)).
• There are at least 24 current international titles, with prizes ranging from $400,000 to $30,000 (various sponsors including Toyota, LG, Samsung, and Fujitsu).
• There are at least 24 current titles in China.
• There are at least 21 current titles in Korea (various sponsors, including LG Oil, SK Gas, a couple of very large construction and a couple of very large construction equipment (think Caterpillar) companies).
• There are at least 18 titles in Taiwan.

Most of these are yearly tournaments, with the exception of the Ing international (nothing to do with ING financial group) with a $400,000 purse, which is held every 4 years.

High ranking professionals often open schools, or at the very least tutor select groups of talented students, so some have a steady income outside of tournaments.

Anecdotally, the Korea Go Association pays teaching professionals who live *outside* of Korea a monthly stipend of $2000 (that would be in addition to whatever students pay).

In summary, some of the top earners in 2004 (not necessarily best players):

Player	Country	Earnings
Yi Chang-Ho1	Korea	~$740,000
Cho U	Taiwan/Japan	~$880,000
Yi Se-Dol	Korea	~$400,000
Chang Hao	China	~$165,000

1. One of *the* strongest players in the world, currently holding 3 *world* titles, in 1993 held 12 world and other.

There are roughly 1000 active and competitive professional players from Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan.

All dollar amounts are according to current (mid-2010) exchange rates. No adjustments for cost of living (Chang Hao probably has it pretty good).

Fix for fallback to PIO mode

Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:

1.	Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2.	Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}001
3.	On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4.	Type ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess, and then press ENTER.
5.	On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6.	Type 1, and then click OK.

Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:

1.	Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2.	Locate and then click the following key in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}002
3.	On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4.	Type ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess, and then press ENTER.
5.	On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6.	Type 1, and then click OK.

Note The numbered subkeys that are listed earlier correspond to the primary and secondary IDE channels on a computer that contains a single IDE controller. If your computer contains two IDE controllers, the numbered subkeys for the primary and secondary IDE channels for each of the two controllers may be:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}002

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}003

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}004

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}005

To verify that you have located the correct subkey, verify that the DriverDesc value for the subkey contains the string value "Primary IDE Channel" or the string value "Secondary IDE Channel."

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If above does not fix the problem, try the script below.

VBScript to reset DMA modes. Requires reboot.
reset-DMS.vbs

Proper ipw3945 suspend/resume

drop 15ipw3945 in /etc/pm/hooks as '15ipw3945', mode 755