[computer-go] Fw: Compensation for handicap plays?

[Rémi Coulom]

Don Dailey wrote:
> I'll take a final poll - speak now or forever hold your peace!
>
> Should we:
>
>   1.  Give white N-1 stones at end of game.  (where N = handicap)
>   2.  Give white N stones at end of game.  (N = handicap)
>   3.  Give white N stones except handicap 1 case.
>   4.  Not worry about giving white anything but the appropriate
>       handicap stones.
>
> Option 4 seems a lot cleaner and is WYSIWYG at end of game along
> with komi of course.
>
>   
I vote for 2 because that is what KGS does, and that is how I have 
implemented handicap in my program.

It has already been said already, but I insist: what we need is a GTP 
command to tell the program what are the rules of the game. I would be 
glad to implement such a command, and would not care about the 
compensation method, then.

Rémi