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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did those extra three stones make enough of a difference?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, he still won that second game but the outcome wasn't as lopsided. It definitely made the game more interesting for both of us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No offense, but the extra stones just made it so he could go easy on you. When I started go, the new player challenge was to end a 9 stone handicap game against the resident 3-dan with a "positive" score. [0]

[0] most official scoring methods either ignore captured stones, or count them as positive points for the player who captured them. However, when scoring by hand, it is easier to count them as negative points for the person who lost them; so thats what we did.