[computer-go] 19x19 CGOS

[Christoph Birk]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Don Dailey wrote:
> My only arugment is that it would look silly - but it would be correct.
> But I guess passing on the first few moves will always look silly.

That's actually the way Ing-rules work. White passes the first N moves.

There is one side effect that we have to keep in mind: passing on the
first move, but keeping the komi at 7.5 (for server's simplicity):
When a 1H-bot (= 1 pass) plays black it gives effectively 2 stones.
When a 1H-bot            plays white is gives 1 stone.
Ie. the effective handicap is 1.5 stones on average.

But I don't think it's a problem. People just have to remember that
2 passes means a handicap of 2.5 when comparing results of
eg. CS  and CS-2H.

May be we should call them 2P (2 pass) bots instead of 2H bots :-)

Christoph