Life In 19x19

Making the handicap free placement can help as it gives weak players with loads of handicaps the opportunity to place them inefficiently so it's not quite so mental

Very interesting point! I never thought about this. It is not very logic, logic would say that free placement must be better for ...

Thank you all for the input!

I was trying to understand what a tengen is, and I found this page that discusses tengen on a 9x9 board. They also seem to say that the komi should be 6.5.


Also, is there some maximum handicap that makes sense to use on smaller boards?
For the 19x19 board the maximum ...

When playing on a 19x19 board, a fair komi is considered to be something around 6.5 to 7 points for White. I read the interesting discussions about this on the forum.

I was wondering, what is a fair komi when playing on smaller boards, like 13x13 or 9x9?

Since on the smaller boards less points ...

Hello Everyone!

I like strategy boardgames, and I play chess since many years. I started to play go only one month and half ago, so I am a total beginner.

I found a go app for my phone, and I started to play with the app. I really like the game, it's a lot of fun! For my job, I have to spend a ...