Re: Interface advice

[Jeremy Thorpe <jthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Bob Felice wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:27:20 +0000, Nick wrote:
> 
> >I have been examining the entrants for the 1998 Ing Computer Goe
> >Tournament, and have compiled a list of fairly obvious does and don'ts
> >in designing Go program front ends.  It is at
> >http://www.britgo.demon.co.uk/gopcres/padvice.html
> >
> >These are things which are obvious to experienced Go programmers, but
> >seem to be worth saying for the sake of those new to the field.
> >
> >Nick
> 
> This may not be obvious even to experienced Go programmers, but it is
> obvious to anyone who was watching the computer go competition at the
> last U.S. Go Congress: make sure your program can accept a suicide move.
> 
> 
> This is a legal move under Ing rules, but it is more than a theoretical
> possibility: last August one of the programs lost a game because it
> could not accept a suicide move generated by its opponent. 
> 
> -- bob felice
> 

just to be clear, a suicide move is one in which you place a stone which
causes its own string to have no liberties (without causing an opponent's
string to lose its last liberty) and is immediately taken off the board
with the rest of the string.  is that right?  is it also legal to place a
stone in an opponent's one-by-one eye?  i just want to be clear because
this move is illegal on IGS.

-jeremy