On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 08:31 +0900, Darren Cook wrote:
> >> Mark Boon: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>> Opposed to removing 9x9.
> >>> In favor of adding 13x13 wthout removing 9x9.
> >>>     
> > Hideki Kato wrote:
> >> Me too.  If, however, limited two 9x9 and 13x13 might be better now as
> >> 19x19 is not so utilized, IMHO.  It's just early this year many
> >> programs started being running on 9x9.
> > 
> > Rémi Coulom wrote:
> > I second that suggestion of replacing 19x19 cgos by 13x13 cgos. For
> > 19x19, I prefer KGS, it is a lot more interesting.
> 
> +1. 9x9 play doesn't include some features of the game on the larger
> board size, but 19x19 is too big too experiment with some brute-force
> ideas on today's hardware. I believe 13x13 is the perfect test-bed for
> the next algorithmic breakthrough.

I actually would prefer working our way up, doing 11x11 next but that is
sure to be unpopular I think.   11x11 is still a far more complex game
than 9x9.  

So I'm in a quandary now.   A lot of votes between 13x13 and 19x19 for
the second server.     I guess when we decide that we will have to argue
over time-control :-)

- Don


> Darren
> 
> 

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