My reading of http://homepages.cwi.nl/~tromp/go.html is that komi is only supported among equal players, as agreed upon. However, this goes against the practice in Chinese and Ing rulesets, where white does recieve a komi to counterbalance the scoring of the additional stones placed by black. One rationale for this would be that it keeps the score comparable to the Japanese rulesets, where stones on the board do not count as territory.
The server would have to make and enforce some particular rule. Regarding handicap stones, I'd suggest "free placement", for consistency with Chinese scoring. Terry McIntyre UNIX for hire software development / systems administration / security ----- Original Message ---- From: Christian Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go <computer-go@computer-go.org> Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 12:46:40 PM Subject: Re: [computer-go] Anchor Player Yes, in chinese rules you need to compensate white for the extra area you gain from the actual stones. The handicap is only meant to be the extra strength/stability. One can of course ignore this for the server. I just wanted to make sure all programs use the same rules. I don't know what the tromp-taylor rules says about it. On 12/22/06, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure this out. If you get a 9 stone handicap, you have > to give back those 9 stones? So a 9 stone handicap is not quite as > much > as it seems although it's still pretty good. > > - Don > > > > > > On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:24 +0100, Christian Nilsson wrote: > > There's also the small issue of the compensation given to white > > because of the extra black stones on the board. Setting a modified > > komi would break (MC-)programs with an internal rule for it. Not > > setting it would break those who does not use that rule. > > > > 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.. > > > > //Christian > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
