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No worries.

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I may disagree on SL about the range thing.
First SL is a digest of what people think on a 19x19.
On a bigger board you could have a way to build influence so that the range do increase much farther.

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I made a wooden GoBan with alcoves in the sides, which made the sides the quickest and easiest place to make a live group and get points efficiently (more points per move). Next I want to make a GoBan with the corners points removed (say 9 of them from each corner, on a 21x21 board, so 405 total intersections / playing points). The board then looks like a big plus sign (+) and you could say 8 corners - 2 in each of the 4 arms of the plus-sign / cross.

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Here is a 37x37 game < Little Golem > played over the last few years (started late 2017 and finished on 2021-05-18) on the Little-Golem-game-server. It was played by an online friend of mine living in Germany, “Bernhard Herwig ★” < Little Golem > and Eönwë of Slovakia < Little Golem > who won the game; but it was a VERY close game —>
White: 170 (area) + 64 (prisoners) + 6.5 (komi) = 240.5 points
Black: 173 (area) + 55 (prisoners) = 228 points

  • thus White won by 12.5 points.

                  • 21x21 is so 19th century! :wink:

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:astonished: That board is HUGE! Oh man, that would be so unmanageable. Fun though :wink:

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