On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Don Dailey wrote:
I have a question. With perfect play, obviously a 9 stone handicap game is dead lost. If 2 perfect players played a game where one was given the 9 stones, and they played for maximum territory (obviously it doesn't make sense to play for a win) would the handicapped player be able to hold some territory at the end of the game? Could he carve out a little piece for himself even against his perfect opponents wishes?
Between equal players that's easy. I talked about this with very strong amateur (> 6d) from Taiwan and he told me that professionals estimate the handicap where white cannot live to be about 17 stones. Christoph _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
