Re: computer-go: Mathematic Go

[Robert Jasiek <jasiek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Blue Thunder Somogyi wrote:
> PS - I also am quite curious myself if any application of chaos theory
> (strange attractors, etc) could be applied to the game, as Go itself is
> nearly the definition (at least the commonly used scientific definition) of
> chaos - "sensitive dependence on initial conditions"

One can define go to depend on a function R that represents
all possible rule sets. With properly chosen Rs the scores 
can have chaotic behaviour. So in principle every chaos
wisdom should be applicable to go.

If you wonder how many Rs can be stated, consider the move
history and alter R with respect to prohibitions of
successive situations, e.g.

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robert jasiek
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