The Granularity Condundrum: a possible solution?

[Username17]

...Or the high level players all trained for 19, so upping it to 23 ruined their strategy. They have been playing that way from the day they were old enough to hold stones.

-Crissa

Unlikely, considering that there isn't comparable disruption for dropping to a 15 board.

-Username17

[RandomCasualty2]

...Or the high level players all trained for 19, so upping it to 23 ruined their strategy. They have been playing that way from the day they were old enough to hold stones.

Yeah, you're going to basically throw people off their game when you change the rules and they have to re-adapt strategies for the new rules.

I don't find that all that surprising.

[Crissa]

Unlikely, considering that there isn't comparable disruption for dropping to a 15 board.

Except, the strategies that work on a 19 also work on a smaller board. But strategies that work on a 15 board don't translate up.

Fighting vs positioning.

I can do well on an 11 board to someone several kyuu ahead of me, but the same is not true on a larger board.

-Crissa