It seems likely now that the correct komi for 9x9 is 7.0. If so, I'd prefer 6.5 komi to 7.5, since 6.5 would have black winning most games, and most other games have a first player advantage. This would give 9x9 go a similar first player advantage.
David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of "Ingo Althöfer" Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 10:35 AM To: computer-go@computer-go.org Subject: [computer-go] 7.5-komi for 9x9 in Beijing Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > I'd have some preference for playing the decisive game > with komi = 6.5, but apparently thats not possible on KGS. But that should not be a problem, as long as the operators do not believe in the final verdict of KGS. > I think with komi = 7.5 white > is scoring very high (too high?) in the top games. I made a count for the 9x9-competition in Beijing (komi=7.5: Looking only at games among the top 5 rankers there are 20 games so far (including two tiebreak-games) with 15 wins for White and 5 Wins for Black. Looking at all games among the top 7 rankers there are 40 games (including two tiebrak-games) with 27 : 13 for White. Taking all 164 games of the tournament (including two tiebrak games) White is ahead by 93:71. It is probably not an accident that the quota decrease with decreasing playing strength: 15/20 > 27/40 > 93/164 or translated to decimals 0.75 > 0.675 > 0.567. However, when B+7 is the correct value on 9x9, komi=6.5 might lead into similar problems. Ingo. -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger _______________________________________________ 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/
