2010/4/7 Erik van der Werf <[email protected]>: > 2010/4/7 Andrés Domínguez <[email protected]>: >> I think the big komi is an anomaly with very small boards, where white >> player can't even live.: > > That's one thing, the other is that on even size boards the lack of a > center makes it hard to defeat mirror Go.
So I said later about even sizes. > If you like that sort of thing, here's a complete overview: > http://erikvanderwerf.tengen.nl/mxngo.html Great, last notice I had about Migos was solving 5x5. Thanks for the link. > If anything is not representative I would say its the draws :-) Not only the draws, for small square boards I don't see a pattern or a trend similar to big boards. Migos only solved up to 5x5 AFAIK. >> Five points of komi on 19x19 looks extremely low, more in the 7-10 range. > > Sure, but my point was that the komi we are used to is a statistical > komi (which balances fallible players). > For perfect play on large boards it's all pure speculation. Agree. > BTW it was not so long ago that the usual komi was 5.5. Maybe it went > up because top pro level improved? Not much before komi was 0, that doesn't mean old professionals didn't think black as a big advantage. Probably 5.5 was too low when it was introduced. Andrés _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
