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| From: | Gunnar Farnebäck |
| Subject: | Re: [gnugo-devel] Re: Ranked Robot (fwd) |
| Date: | Fri, 27 Aug 2004 05:02:22 +0200 |
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Dave wrote: > why allow komi < 0 at all ? > > I know it can be used on small boards when n stones is too few but n+1 > stones is too many, but on an even game ? Negative komi is a fully reasonable alternative to handicap stones if players of differing strength want to play a game without handicap stones (e.g. to get practice with even-game fuseki). Playing mirror-go in such a game might not be quite appropriate though (and a stronger player can usually break out of it anyway). /Gunnar
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