Don Dailey wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 15:18 +0200, Erik van der Werf wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I had heard somewhere that there are some who believe 8.0 is the right
>>> komi for 9x9 Chinese. I personally believed for a long time it
was 7.0
>>> based on statistical data of games. However that can be misleading.
>> Do you understand why even numbers are very unlikely?
>
> Yes, I understand that. I compiled from CGOS statistics all possible
> results and their frequency. Here is a list of white results where the
> actual games end with a score. You will notice that even scores are
> much more common. There were just a few games that used 6.5 komi
> because when I first started CGOS I had set 6.5 by mistake but I think
> that was just for a few hours at most. The vast majority of these are
> 7.5 komi games:
>
> 39114 0.5
> 1488 1.5
> 20950 2.5
> 701 3.5
> ...
I suspect that quite a few of the odd scores are not due to the
presence of seki with an odd number of neutral points but are caused
by uncaptured dead stones.
/Gunnar
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