Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <015247E5EE39D311A43A00AA00488FDE07E81F@ATTHIS_3>, Jean-
Pierre Vesinet <jpvesinet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>I've read somewhere that early Ing-sponsored computer go tournaments
>required that all dead stones be explicitely captured. Why is this
>condition, also a requirement of T-T rules, no longer required?

I imagine that this is because programmers are unwilling to implement
it.  They want their programs to play something that resembles grown-up
Go.

Nick
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