Did 9x9 Komi Just Change from 5.5 to 6.5?

[hermitage171]

I noticed in a game today that the computer seemed to be giving white 6.5 komi in a 9x9 game, as opposed to 5.5 in all the 9x9 games I’ve played previously here. Is this a glitch or a policy change? If it’s a policy change, can we discuss it? For a long time I’ve been trying to argue that the correct komi for 9x9 is in fact 6.0, based on the computer evaluations of the opening position that this site supplies after each game.

[GreenAsJade]

Draws, handicap changes, and ranking limits lifted

Hello OGS! Thanks to the hard work by @dexonsmith we have some long sought updates: 1) Draws and Ing komi value updates The first is that draws are now officially supported as a game result. This primarily affects New Zealand rules as most rules have fractional komi to specifically avoid draws, but New Zealand rules explicitly allow for them, however if you are using non standard whole number komi on any rule set it will also result in a Draw as this is intuitive. Because of this change, the …

[hermitage171]

Thanks. It’s good to know that I’m not going crazy. But I still think that the komi should be 6.0! So I took my case to that thread as well.

[GreenAsJade]

I updated the title of the announcement to make it clear Komi is involved.

Good luck with komi changes … at least this change proves it can be done

[dexonsmith]

@hermitage171

But I still think that the komi should be 6.0! So I took my case to that thread as well.

(Just in case anyone reads this thread and doesn’t see the answer in the other thread, here’s a link: Draws, handicap & komi changes, and ranking limits lifted - #17 by dexonsmith)

[Anthe]

But it seems strange to give White the advantage, when you set color to automatic the stronger player gets white…

Regards

[shinuito]

Maybe it depends on whether you think getting to play first (choosing your favourite opening like tengen etc) is more of an advantage than one point.