Re: computer-go: What makes a ladder

[Nick Wedd <Nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Njoroge <Njoroge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>I belive that you are wrong.
>
>The rules that fails the ladder is that the Opponent stone has less than 2
>liberties.

Instead of blindly following rules, you should try to read the ladder.
As it has a branching factor of 1 for each black move and 2 for each
white move, this is not difficult.
>
>-.-.-.-.-.-O-.-.-.-.-
> . . . . O X . . . .
> . . . O X X O X . .
> . . O X X O . . . .
> . O X X O . . . . .
> . O X O . . . . . .
> . . O . . . . . . .
> . . . . . . . . . .
>
>The ladder has now been extended and it is black to play.  The correct
>orientation of my original diagram is

But white's last move was bad.

Nick
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