>> testbed for parallelization because it's more difficult) and as >> "real" targets (as there are players for both). > > Sorry, but there are (almost) no players for 9x9. To repeat > D.Fotland's earlier comment: 9x9 is just for beginner's practice. > It's not go.
I won't argue that 19x19 is played a lot more, but I know many strong players who play 9x9, with varying degrees of seriousness: because the ranks tends to match 19x19 (the pro consistently beats the 6-dan beats the 3-dan beats the 1-kyu, etc.) people can take it seriously and play it when they don't have time for a 19x19 game. BTW, see http://www.igoamigo.com/igofes/myoka/ (Japanese only) for a Nihon-kiin 9x9 tournament involving all the top female Japanese pros. They will be playing at 10s/move. Darren P.S. On the other hand I haven't yet found any pro 13x13 games. There seems to be a few games played by strong amateurs on servers, and again the rankings tend to match 19x19, but 9x9 seems much more popular. -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese-Arabic open source dictionary/semantic network) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
