[computer-go] Should 9x9 komi be 8.0 ?

[Christoph Birk]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Magnus Persson wrote:
> Hence in the normal situation komi must be 9 in order to make the 45/36 split 
> on the board become jigo. At least in area scoring. A simple empirical thing 
> is to check the results of CGOS 9x9 right now. All white vicories are even 
> numbers + 1/2 i.e. 0.5, 2.5, 4.5, ... whereas all black wins are 1.5, 3.5, 
> 5.5, .... Increasing komi with 1 does not change the result of any of these 
> games.

All games that white won W+0.5 would reverse to B+0.5 if you
lowered the komi by 1 pt.

Christoph