I hate komi. I don't think black has an advantage because it goes first. It's a turn based game, both black and white have equal opportunities to make their marks on the board. In the end it's about cleverness and strategy and not who goes first.

I also hate losing just because of Komi points.

I mean, I consider Komi just for tournaments and not a rule. It is a fairly new rule and it's different in every country. In Hikaru no Go, Sai the Go ghost has no idea what Komi is. He's thousands of years old and he knows how to play Go better than anyone alive, but Komi is new to him.

Kind of like how my dad plays backgammon where you have to get the exact number to bear it off every time, you can't start taking off the fours if you get a five and don't have any pieces on the fives or sixes. You have to get a four. He thinks it's a better way to play, and doesn't care that standard rules are different.

I have more fun with my dad's rules anyway.

My dad isn't playing backgammon at tournaments so it doesn't matter. Just for playing regular games for fun, or standard play, one of the rules, I can't consider Komi a real rule because it is a tournament addition.

I hate komi. I don't think black has an advantage because it goes first. It's a turn based game, both black and white have equal opportunities to make their marks on the board. In the end it's about cleverness and strategy and not who goes first.

I hate komi. I don't think black has an advantage because it goes first.

I can't consider Komi a real rule because it is a tournament addition.