> Similarly, most kinds of endgame skill essentially vanish on a 4x4 > board:
Yes, my thesis crumbles on the tiny boards: I think 9x9 is the smallest board size where 19x19 playing strength is very significant. (Endgame skill is important at 9x9: I've found games where a mid-dan player has lost to a high-dan player by making a 1pt mistake in the last 10 moves.) > influence seem likely to change significantly. But as I said, I doubt > that is what the original unnamed poster was talking about. If you missed the start of this thread, the first two messages were in the Mogo thread: a post by Jacques Basaldua (asking what is meant by a 9x9 professional), and a reply by me. Darren _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
