> I was thinking that integer komi would then make 9x9 very drawish but in > my experience it does not appear to be so.... > > So I think for 9x9 at some point we will all agree that 7.0 komi is the > right thing to do. And my experience from working on book development is > that a perfect book is a very difficult thing to achieve for 7.0 so > tournament games will be more exciting for a long time before we > eventually end up with just draws.
There is also the nice quality that programs (or their authors?) can make a strategic decision to go for a draw, or gamble and go for a win. Thinking about this, it requires the tournament rules to specify if a program is allowed to be aware of the results (or even current board position) of the other games in the same round. Darren P.S. As for correct komi, I'm convinced that 8pt or 9pt favours white. I'm not yet convinced that 5pt or 6pt (in Japanese rules) favours black. But I agree that perfect komi is likely to turn out to be 7pt. Magnus, do you have an opening line for 5.5pt komi that you think is a certain black win? -- Darren Cook, Software Researcher/Developer http://dcook.org/work/ (About me and my work) http://dcook.org/blogs.html (My blogs and articles) _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
