Handicap stones

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Handicap stones

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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?
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Re: Handicap stones

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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.").
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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 :)
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Re: Handicap stones

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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.
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