"If you're a promising Go player in the west, and you get good quite quickly, there aren't any 9-dan [the highest rank of player, equivalent to a Chess grandmaster] professionals that you can learn from, or go and get taught by.
Steinitz responded by inviting Mason to name a sufficiently high stake for a match, at least £150 per player (equivalent to about £73,000 in 2007's money ), but Mason was unwilling to stake more than £100.
The Kindle, The Nook, and now the Ipad -- these new products with catchy names are the MP3 player-equivalents that are hastening the demise of the traditional publishing industry and the offshore printing companies in one fell swoop.
The so-called hot market for Jeter's 3,000th hit — the player's equivalent of a World Series championship — will test his sky-high popularity during a season in which he is batting.260.260
Dominicans have had a remarkable tradition in recent years of developing outstanding baseball players, the equivalent, in their field, to the Elmans and Heifetzes.
It noted that the club, owned by a wealthy Russian businessman, paid its top players the equivalent of $2.3 million a year, while an advertised one-year internship for a "performance analyst" offered neither salary nor expenses.
"If a player has the equivalent of a high school education," Alderson said, "and another player has the equivalent of a sixth- or seventh-grade education, and all things are equal, the club will pay more for the highly educated player".
Kirk Cousins is a perfectly serviceable NFL back-up, and performed well in relief last year, but he is not an equivalent player to RGIII.
Over eight years with three teams, Flutie won three championships and was named the league's Most Outstanding Player – the CFL equivalent of MVP honors – six times.
For example, the '92 and '93 Cowboys' skill players come in as the "most highly drafted" among Super Bowl champs, with the (weighted) average player essentially being equivalent to the eighth pick in the draft.
Though, they don't frown that much, since they fined Beal a mere $15,000, which for a professional basketball player is the equivalent of paying for one team meal, minus gratuity.
