Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[Nick Wedd <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <5144A3121B37D411BC0100508B955A1801024AD2@USPALX20>,
Grajdeanu, Adrian <adrian.grajdeanu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>> I don't like 
>>    const MAXMOVES=500;// a draw will be declared after this many moves
>> This is not like anything in any published rule set.  It does 
>> not solve
>> any problem.  It encourages unsporting behaviour.
>
>Still Nick, what would you do if the players would want to run forever.
>Current professional programs won't, but I may enter into a competition two
>programs that I wrote and they would tend to do that. How would you want to
>have it handled? Personally I'm neither for nor against the MAXMOVES=500,
>just looking for your oppinion.

I would enforce "sudden death" time limits - or some kind of time limit
that eventually becomes inextensible, like Ing time-purchase.  One of
them would run out of time.

Nick
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Nick Wedd