Am new to this site and am still trying to figure out how it all works. I don’t understand how the handicap options work on the site. If I select “required” for the handicap setting, I am expecting that handicaps will be allocated according to the relative ranks of the two players. Frequently, however, I have found komi (6.5) being added to a player with a higher rank. It is almost as if the site is saying we are both the same rank, when we are not. I have also come across the site not providing any handicap stones, even though there is at least a two rank difference between the players. Not sure what is happening here. Any clarification appreciated
Links to the games would be useful.
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To link a game, simply copy the address of the game from your browser here (the one you get when you open the game)
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Here is one game that I thought should have had a handicap: dougd1 vs. wcopeland118
Here is another game where the komi didn’t seem right. I thought it should have been 0.5, not 6.5: dougd1 vs. doodle2025
Not sure what you are looking at. When you review the game, there is no stone handicap on the board at the start.
1 stone handicap just means a normal game, but White only gets 0.5 point komi.
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I understand that, but the rank difference was two, so I thought it should have been a 2 stone handicap for black.
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If the rank difference is between 1 and 1.9999 then the correct handicap is 1 stone. Perhaps the rank difference was slightly less than 2.
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Not sure how you get rank differences between whole numbers. I would have thought if the system rounds up/down the rank displayed on the game to a whole number, the system would use that to determine handicap.
Look at your homepage. Your current rank is 16.2k. This is the number used to determine handicaps.
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Ok, thanks for that.
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