Quoting Christian Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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.
Please, do use this compensation because KGS use it (correct me if I am wrong)
and it would be very silly to make all programs buggy on at least on server.
The compensation is there to make japanese and chinese give the same result in
handicap games, which is very important to make the game consistent for all
players no matter what background they have.
-Magnus
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