komi

IPA: kˈoʊmi

Root Word: Komi

A Finno-Ugric language currently spoken by 200,000 to 400,000 people, depending on source and definition of "speaker", in northeastern European part of Russia.
A republic of Russia. Official name: Komi Republic.
A region of Russia.
A member of an ethnic group chiefly consisting of Komi speakers and descendants of Komi speakers who don't speak the language.
(go) Bonus points given to the white player to compensate for the fact that black plays first.

Examples of "komi" in Sentences

About not using komi– I see the point of course, but I do think questions about what komi is “fairest” are interesting.
One consequence of using a fractional komi is that no game can have a tied score as a result, and this makes draws very rare.
At a distance from Tobaubo doo they describe another country, which they allege as inhabited by cannibals of gigantic size, called komi.
The really interesting thing is komi– in Go the player of white who plays second is given a number of points at the outset to compensate for playing second.
I was doing yobi-komi mentioned above on the first day of the festival when a group of five or six guys came up looking like they might decide to go inside.
Excuse me for being thick, but is it necessarily the case that if, say, Black forces a win by 7 points with best play in an even game, best play with a komi of 7 will lead to jigo?
There's "hiyashi-komi" or cooling fish in ice-water slurry to bring down its core temperature, and "nou-jime" or puncturing the head with a metal hook causing instantaneous brain death (which keeps the rest of the fish's organs functioning, as in kaimin katsugyo).
Thus tournament directors or some go organization set the so-called komi at 5.5 or 6.5 or 7.5 level, which means that the player of the black stones is considered to be the winner if the score of the game is greater than komi; otherwise, when the score is smaller than the komi value then the player of the white stones is considered to be the winner.