I'm wondering if the kyu system is screwed up without the compensation. I still have a hard time believing that the system scales very well across a 9 kyu range. Would the extra compensation make the extreme handicaps work better?
- Don On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:36 -0700, Markus Enzenberger wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 13:24, Christian Nilsson wrote: > > How is this compensation handled by the various programs on cgos, if at > > all? > > > > Check http://www.britgo.org/rules/compare.html#comp if you don't know > > what I'm talking about.. > > is there any logical explanation for this rule? I mean, White gives Black an > advantage in the form of handicap stones, why should Black give White a > compensation for a small part of this advantage in return? > > Since CGOS already uses Tromp-Taylor, which are IMO the most logical and > cruft-free rules existing, I would vote for not using the compensation. > > - Markus > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
