Re: On game space size

[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Antii,

That's a nice table. Now, clearly the number of states
of +-1 stone is still enough for ordinary people to take
into account when *they* are doing the pruning. Hence, it
has to be that very many of these very quickly diverge into
a state with +-N stones, which is a very undesirable situation. :)
So, how many of the +-1 states still remain a +-1 state after
one or two moves has been performed? Hopefully, the picture 
would look different then.

(Actually, my guess is that a statistical analysis of such kind
will reveal 'good shape', in the sense of patterns that
are stable to small changes.)

-- 
Henrik Rydberg (http://fy.chalmers.se/~rydberg),
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology.