From 8de80d58fb0f8828b2128a5312f6c1f610b3b845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Vance Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:56:01 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] komiless --- posts/hack2025-01-go.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/posts/hack2025-01-go.md b/posts/hack2025-01-go.md index 0502a15..875e3b8 100644 --- a/posts/hack2025-01-go.md +++ b/posts/hack2025-01-go.md @@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ Okay, easy enough. What about different numbers of handicap stones? Using standa Now let's make things more spicy. I keep winning every 1-stone game, but losing every 2-stone game. I want a 1.5 stone handicap. Well we can't add fractional stones, but we can look for something worth between 6.5 and 20 points. +Or, let's find something worth 0.0 points. I want a board position we can start with and not need that dumb komi rule. + Let's do the full analysis. Every possible starting board positions. Then we'll look for one that KataGo says is worth around... say, 12 points. Of course, we can't really analyze every board position, so I just did ones with up to 2 stones. I included ones with white stones, because why not? -- 2.47.3