Why is 13x13 less popular?

[Maharani]

The 13 x 13 thread

This is a thread for anything 13 x 13. Post your games, strategies and general thoughts here. 13 x 13 is, I feel, the least played out of the three most common sizes. (Anyone got stats?) People seem to like the extremes of 9 x 9 and 19 x 19, one of them very tactic-heavy, the other very strategy-heavy (?). I’ve heard people call 13 x 13 “boring” in comparison. I often feel that 13 x 13 is the most difficult board size out of the three for me. It requires good whole-board judgmen…