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- Subject: Re: 9X9 Go
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- From: wft@math.canterbury.ac.nz (Bill Taylor)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 01:39:11 GMT
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- |> These two together make it ideal for teaching people the rules. And with
- |> a proper handicap (versus me it's 4 stones on the 3-3 points)
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- This is an interesting point. Some while ago at a tournament, we whiled away
- happy hours trying to determine whether, in a 9x9 game with black playing with a
- handicap of 4 stones, on the 3-3 points, should the optimal result be a whole
- board victory to black ? With optimal play, can white get a group to live ?
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- It was overwhelmingly agreed that the four 3-3 points was the optimal place for
- black to put the stones; but opinion was evenly divided as to whether or not
- white could get a group. Play between equals suggested probably not.
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- Has anyone else investigated this problem ?
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- Any opinions ?
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