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What sorts of modifications could even be made to Go that it doesn't turn into an imbalanced mess?
by grenoire 9y ago
What sorts of modifications could even be made to Go that it doesn't turn into an imbalanced mess?
- wapz 9y agoYou can make huge fundamental changes like "you cannot connect 3 stones in a row" or you cannot make a certain shape with your stones. There are 'bad' shapes in go that you learn when you're young that almost never surface in higher levels of play (of course you would make a non-bad shape illegal). You can say every 15 turns you get 2 moves in a row and they are stagged (this is game-breaking). You can ban certain josekis ('standard moves' early in the game). You can make each captured stone worth 2 points instead of 1.
- londons_explore 9y agoEvery move, you flip 6 coins. If all 6 come up as heads, you swap seats and colors with your opponent. This means that an advantageous board position is much less important, and it will be in both players favour to keep the board position very near evenly matched.
- Someone 9y agoNot always. A player that thinks he will lose a game that's tied in the last 8-ish moves will have an incentive to create a highly unbalanced game. That way, that player gets a 50% chance of winning.
- wapz 9y agoGiven that there's only one flip left and you need 6 heads, he has a 1/2^6 or 1/64 chance to win. In go the last 8 moves is almost never going to make the difference (the last 20-40 moves in a game that doesn't end in resignation there are almost no mistakes in pro games).
- romaniv 9y agoDifferent versions of Go have different rules for scoring.
- skybrian 9y agoSwitch to a 21x21 board? Maybe consider a different board shape? Suppose there is a hole somewhere.