A fair-komi game on Dragon is always played as even game (without handicap stones). The komi and the color of the player is not fixed but will be determined at the start of the game by a bidding system. On Dragon there are four ways how this can be done controlled by the handicap type:

• Open Auction: negotiate komi with an Open Auction
  
  • Players openly give their komi-bids.
    
  • Komi-bids are shown to the other player.
    
  • Komi-bids are given in turn till one player starts the game:
    * Each komi-bid must be higher than the last bid of the opponent.
    * The player with the highest bid takes Black and is giving that number of komi to White.
    
  
  
• Secret Auction: negotiate komi with a Secret Auction
  
  • Players secretly give their respective komi-bid (once per player).
    
  • Komi-bids are hidden from the other player.
    
  • After the 2nd komi-bid, the game will be started:
    * The player with the highest bid takes Black and is giving that number of komi to White.
    * If the komi-bids are equal, player color is determined by Nigiri.
    
  
  
• You cut, I choose or I cut, You choose: negotiate komi and colors by Divide & Choose
  
  • The difference between the two handicap types is just who starts to bid the komi and who ends with choosing the color.
     
    
  • One player chooses the komi for White ("cut").
    
  • Then the other player chooses the color to play and the game starts ("choose")
    

Related topics:

• How to start a fair-komi game?
   
  
• http://senseis.xmp.net/?FairKomi
  
• http://senseis.xmp.net/?AuctionKomi