Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:04 PM 6/25/2001 +0200, you wrote:


> Nick Wedd wrote:
> > I am pragmatic and cynical,
> > perhaps unduly so.  My objective is to organise an event which people
> > will be happy to compete in.
>
> If you were pragmatic and cynical, then you would set logical
> rules, announce them properly, let every programmer fall into
> the trap once, and have only happy programmers during all
> following events because they won't do the same mistake twice;)
Except that each organizer would pick a different set of logical rules.  This
year there are 6 or 7 computer go contests, and I don't want to spend all my
time reading details of different rulesets, implementing and testing them all.

I'd much rather have the organizers use one of the existing major rulesets
(Japanese or Ing).


> Seriously, why do you fear implementation of simple rules?
> When I set them in the European 13x13 blind tournament,
> all players applied them very easily; during their first game
> they had problems only with imagining the coordinate system.
>
> --
> robert jasiek
David Fotland