On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 20:56 +0200, Gunnar Farnebäck wrote: > 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.
That is probably the case, especially since very few programs handle seki properly. > > /Gunnar > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > computer-go@computer-go.org > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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