Re: Topics on influence

[Darren Cook <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I like best the idea that the influnce of each color measures the
>probability that a stone of that color can be placed there and live.

This is a nice complement to the idea that territory is a point where a
stone of the opposite colour will be dead.

Once you've found influence what do you do with it? A human might use it to
construct high level plans, but are computer programs really upto that kind
of thing?

Darren