On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 04:45:37PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > I've been looking at a lot of theoretical questions about Go, and there's a > point that seemed interesting and I'd like to know what other people think. > > I read that the value of the first move is accepted to be 20 to 30 points.
Where did you read that? > If you consider the effect of black passing rather than making the first move > so allowing white to make the first move, then the remainder of the game > starting with white's first move and followed by black would be identical to > a game with black starting, except with the colours of stones reversed. > > As I see it this would mean that the value of the first move has to be twice > the value of the Komi, as it should have eactly the same effect as swapping > adding the komi to one side rather than the other, therefore resulting in a > change of 2 x Komi to the final score. You seem to agree with http://senseis.xmp.net/?Komi#toc9 > This would put the value of the first move at 13 to 16 points. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? There has been a recent discussion on this topic on this mailing list (within the Dynamic komi thread) and there's also a substantial discussion on this on the Sensei's Library. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis http://pasky.or.cz/ | "Ars longa, vita brevis." -- Hippocrates _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
