> The chief difference between a 9X9 game and a 19X19 is in the demands > the larger board makes on our _strategic_ reading ability.
Agreed. > And that is not merely another board-size-dependent skill, among many. > That is the most significant difference between a competent player and a > strong one. Disagreed, sorry. As I said, I think go skill applies to almost all board sizes. If you go to a go club, try holding a no-handicap tournament at a weird board size (e.g. 9x9, 13x13, 17x12, whatever). If the difference between competent players was all about 19x19 strategic knowledge you'd expect everyone stronger than about 10 kyu to tie for first place. But what you will find is the ordering will be very close to 19x19 go rank. (You can also see this on go servers that maintain a different rank for each board size.) Darren -- Darren Cook http://dcook.org/mlsn/ (English-Japanese-German-Chinese free dictionary) http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/work/charts/ (My flash charting demos) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
