Re: Fraud Benson's Rule?

[Ray Tayek <rtayek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:31 PM 10/5/98 -0700, Weimin Xiao wrote:
>Region is defined as a maximum connected empty point block in Martin's Play
>It Safe. Thus, the partial board should have few regions:
>Region 1: A1                    up left corner
>Region 2: B2                    diagonal next to the up left corner
>Region 3: D1~D4~A4        L shaped region
>Region 4: F1                    top line
>Region 5: H1                    top line
>
>Am I right?
>

don't know, i am not familiar with Martin's book.

i ran my java benson program on your board with the following results:
the source is on my home page (on the go page), feel free to experiemnt
with it.

versions: Benson.java 1.10 Block.java 1.5 Blocks.java 1.4 Board.java 1.2
ColoredBlock.java 1.4 EmptyBlock.java 1.2 Group.java 1.5 ReadMe.java 1.3
Region.java 1.6 Regions.java 1.4 Stone.java 1.3 Support.java 1.4 
read 1 boards
---------------------------------------
    ABCDEFGHJKL

 0 EEEEEEEEEEEEE  0
 1 E+OO+X+X+O++E  1
 2 EO+O+XXXOO++E
2
 3 EOOO+XOOO+++E  3
 4 E++++XOO++++E  4
 5 EXXXXO++++++E  5
 6
EOOOOOO+++++E  6
 7 E+++++++++++E  7
 8 E+++++++++++E  8
 9 E+++++++++++E
9
10 E+++++++++++E 10
11 E+++++++++++E 11
12 EEEEEEEEEEEEE 12


ABCDEFGHJKL

made 2 black blocks, 3 white blocks and 6 empty blocks
making regions containing colored stone(s)
making regions from small x-enclosed empty blocks
made 3 small x-enclosed regions from small x-enclosed empty blocks
collecting small x-enclosed regions containing non-x stones
collected 0 regions containing non-x stones
total small x-enclosed regions are: 1 small black-enclosed regions and 2
small white-enclosed regions

block 2 is 7 White stone(s)
neighboring blocks are  9 1
3
EEEEE
E+OO+
EO+O+
EOOO+
E++++
has 8 liberties
has healthy empty blocks

has healthy regions 4 6

block 4 is 7 Black stone(s)
neighboring blocks are  3 5 7 11
6
EEEEE
+X+X+
+XXXO
+XOOO
+XOO+
XO+++
has 6 liberties
has healthy empty
blocks 
has healthy regions 5

block 7 is 8 White stone(s)
neighboring blocks are  6 8
4
EEEEEE
X+X+O+
XXXOO+
XOOO++
XOO+++
O+++++
has 7 liberties

block 10 is 4 Black stone(s)
neighboring blocks are  3
11
E++++X
EXXXXO
EOOOOO
has 4 liberties

block 11 is 7 White stone(s)
neighboring blocks are  4 10
8
E++++XOO
EXXXXO++
EOOOOOO+
E+++++++
has 8 liberties

Region 4 is Empty, enclosed by White is small enclosed
contains block(s)
1
neighbor(s) 2
is healthy for block(s) 2
EEE
E+O
EO+


Region 5 is Empty, enclosed by Black is small enclosed
contains block(s)
5
neighbor(s) 4
is healthy for block(s) 4
EEE
X+X
XXX


Region 6 is Empty, enclosed by White is small enclosed
contains block(s)
9
neighbor(s) 2
is healthy for block(s) 2
+OO
O+O
OOO


group 1 is 1 White block(s)
contains blocks  2
EEEEE
E+OO+
EO+O+
EOOO+
E++++

Support: Z has 1 block(s) 2, R has 2 small x-enclosed region(s) 4 6

group 2 is 1 Black block(s)
contains blocks
4
EEEEE
+X+X+
+XXXO
+XOOO
+XOO+
XO+++

Support: Z has 0 block(s), R has 1 small x-enclosed region(s) 5

group 3 is 1 White block(s)
contains blocks
7
EEEEEE
X+X+O+
XXXOO+
XOOO++
XOO+++
O+++++

Support: Z has 0 block(s), R has 0 small x-enclosed region(s)

group 4 is 1 Black block(s)
contains blocks  10
E++++X
EXXXXO
EOOOOO

Support: Z has 0 block(s), R has 0 small x-enclosed region(s)

group 5 is 1 White block(s)
contains blocks
11
E++++XOO
EXXXXO++
EOOOOOO+
E+++++++

Support: Z has 0 block(s), R has 0 small x-enclosed region(s)

Ray (will hack java for food) http://home.pacbell.net/rtayek/
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