what may likely go to zero is (komi / number of points on board),
since absolute first move advantage should go down.

right?

s.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Don Dailey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 2010/4/7 Andrés Domínguez <[email protected]>
>>
>> 2010/4/7 Erik van der Werf <[email protected]>:
>> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Brian Sheppard <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>>decreases with board size
>> >>
>> >> Since the game-theoretic value is a small positive integer, I don't
>> >> think it
>> >> can decrease with
>> >>
>> >> increasing board size.
>> >
>> > What I meant is that it tends to start with full-board wins on tiny
>> > boards (up to max 28 points as far as I know) and then decreases for
>> > larger boards. E.g, 9 on 7x7, 7 on 9x9, and maybe 5 on 19x19.
>>
>> I think the big komi is an anomaly with very small boards, where white
>> player can't even live.:
>>
>> 1x1 : Draw, because no legal move (or losing points allowing suicide)
>> 2x2 : Draw, both with super ko rule or simple ko.
>> 3x3 : B+8 (japanese rules, chinese B+9)
>> 4x4 : Dificult, but I think is a draw with japanese rules
>> 5x5 : B+24 (japanese, B+25 chinese)
>> 6x6 : Probably white can live and black wins but less than 24 points
>>
>> Bigger than 6x6 looks like 8 or 9 is near correct komi for odd boards
>> (7x7, 9x9, 13x13, 19x19 etc.), but I suspect it will increase very slowly
>> for
>> bigger boards (much bigger than 19x19).
>>
>> I believe that small boards are not representative, because odd numbers
>> are much better for black than even numbers, and because when white
>> can hardly live, the bigger the board the bigger the territory black can
>> take.
>>
>> Five points of komi on 19x19 looks extremely low, more in the 7-10 range.
>
> It would not surprise me if the value that I believe it asymptotically
> approaches is not that low - for instance it may be something like 7-10 for
> 19x19 but perhaps it will never drop much below that even on 1019x1019
> boards.
>
> Don
>
>
>
>>
>> Andrés
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