Joshua Zucker wrote:
That hardly seems fair, for player 1 to get an extra turn ...
Quite right, and I guess Thane's original komi question asks just how unfair this really is. It all depends on how quickly the play tends to forget who went first. The fact that player 1 only has a 53%-47% advantage with optimal play from 99-99 makes it much more plausible, to me, that the game is close to fair from the beginning. Actually, I think the ending condition Joshua brought up, where player 2 gets to go again after player 1 crosses 100 but not the other way around, is probably *less* fair, for just the reason he mentioned: player 2 has a much easier time winning, since he could safely stop at 100, while player 1 would need to go much higher out of fear. So "fair ups" isn't so fair after all. (Sort of the equivalent of baseball's home field advantage...) --Michael -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.