It seems odd to me that there is no way to tell a program what system is being used for compensation.
But there is still the issue of which compensation system to use. I think one system gives the handicap stone to the other side and the other just deducts it. I see a potential source of a lot of confusion. - Don On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 09:28 +0100, Magnus Persson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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/
