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I’m not sure what the proper thread for discussing the topic would be.

Thoughts Regarding Komi Tie-Breaker has been locked, and wouldn’t really be the right place anyway.

What is the "Strong bot based fair komi" for 19x19 using Japanese-like (for example, KataGo) rules is specifically about estimating komi with bots.

New way of deciding Komi is about komi bidding (which isn’t that new).

Thue-Morse (Fair Sharing) Sequence: A possible alternative to komi? is only tangential, as is the Nonstandard board size komi discussion.

There’s also Why Japanese Rules and Chinese Rules use different Komi Number? (6,5 and 7,5) but the stated topic of the thread has nothing to do with rank.

Perhaps the most relevant (or permissive) are Komi and the total number of moves to equalize and Measuring the Perfection Gap: a case for Integer Komi.

Personally, I haven’t seen an intuitive argument for why the “practical value” of the first move should either increase or decrease with the strength of the players, or indeed why it shouldn’t.

The value of moves is objective, so what’s really being studied is how the players interact with them.

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