Birthday Komi

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Birthday Komi is the process by which a game is scored when it is the birthday of one of the players. Go is a traditional game filled with rules on ettiquette and aesthetics. It is only natural that players would choose to follow the conduct of continuing obscure traditions.

  • If the birthday is for the younger of the two players, nigiri is omitted and so the elder player decides on which colour they will play. The birthday person then has the ability to secretly decide on the komi before the elder player announces the colours chosen. (The komi isn't written down, but kept in the mind of the birthday person and told to the other person just as endagame is reached).
  • If the birthday is for the elder player, the younger player must take Black and any handicap stones which the elder player deems. As compensation for the point value difference on the board, the birthday person is allowed to issue a challenge that Black must win by X many points for the handicap stones given. This is equivalent to determining a high komi for move disadvantage. (the winning by x many points shouldn't be anything as high as more points than is actually on the board. It should be remembered that as this value goes up, the number of handicap stones adjusts until both players reach an agreement or one player finds that they now have a half-full bowl of stones placed upside down on their head)

bass: What if it is the birthday of both players? And they are both born on the exact same date so they cannot decide who is older?

  - well it is not *absolutely* certain that I'll never get to play Lee ChangHo..

MrTenuki: This is one of the few cases where one might need to dig up the birth certificate (so that the hour and minute could be used as a tiebreaker)...


Anonymous: I have a problem with the komi of the birthday of the younger player. If the younger player is white, he could change the komi to something really high so he could win, and if he is black then he could make it reverse komi for black and really high too.


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