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Handicap stones
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:21 am
by topazg
Logging on (and having fun playing Fuego with 7 stones), I noticed that you have 1 handicap stone for rank, regardless of board size. Playing Gnugo with 6 stones is fine, but on a 9x9 board that's going to be tricky
On OGS, we used /3 of 13x13 and /6 for 9x9 boards, and that seems to work really pretty well. Is there any chance of something similar on Kaya?
Re: Handicap stones
Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 2:24 pm
by Kaya.gs
topazg wrote:Logging on (and having fun playing Fuego with 7 stones), I noticed that you have 1 handicap stone for rank, regardless of board size. Playing Gnugo with 6 stones is fine, but on a 9x9 board that's going to be tricky
On OGS, we used /3 of 13x13 and /6 for 9x9 boards, and that seems to work really pretty well. Is there any chance of something similar on Kaya?
Yes. Make a tweaki. ("/tweaki etc.etc.").
Re: Handicap stones
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 5:10 am
by topazg
Kaya.gs wrote:topazg wrote:Logging on (and having fun playing Fuego with 7 stones), I noticed that you have 1 handicap stone for rank, regardless of board size. Playing Gnugo with 6 stones is fine, but on a 9x9 board that's going to be tricky
On OGS, we used /3 of 13x13 and /6 for 9x9 boards, and that seems to work really pretty well. Is there any chance of something similar on Kaya?
Yes. Make a tweaki. ("/tweaki etc.etc.").
I think I did
Re: Handicap stones
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:41 pm
by RobertT
The handicap only applies to 19x19 currently. Even though it displays 7 stones on 9x9. In reality it will be an even game when the game starts.