RE: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:52 PM 6/25/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> Nick Wedd wrote:
>
> > I imagine that this is because programmers are unwilling to implement
> > it.  They want their programs to play something that resembles grown-up
> > Go.
>
> Yes. But maintaining the pretense creates confusion, since no program is
> strong enough to accurately decide L&D, seki, ko, etc. at the point where
> humans would agree to end the game.
This is not true.  Go4++ and Many Faces play on IGS, and pass correctly at
the end of the game, and score correctly.  I've seen Many Faces make 
scoring mistakes in
perhaps 1 in 500 games, usually when there is some very strange seki.


> Jean-Pierre Vesinet
David Fotland