Here's John Tromp's reply: he does not specify compensation for handicap stones - but leaves wiggle room for the players to choose such komi as they wish. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: John Tromp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:25:59 PM Subject: Re: Compensation for handicap plays?
dear Terry, On 12/22/06, terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been following the discussion on the Computer Go list, where the question of implementing handicaps on the CGOS server has arisen. My reading of your Tromp-Taylor rules suggests that, when black has a handicap of n stones, no compensation is given to white. In my rules a handicap of n stones only means that white passes her first n-1 turns. It does not have any implications for komi, which can still be freely chosen. Some other systems do compensate white. http://www.britgo.org/rules/compare.html#comp discusses the topic. I must admit that I find the adjustment of komi as used in chinese and AGA rules rather ugly and prefer the SST and New Zealand approach to simply make the value of handicap stones a little larger. regards, -John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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