RE: computer-go: Engineering (was: Most simple Go rules)

["Mark Boon" <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

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> [mailto:owner-computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Fotland
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 3:53 AM
> To: computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: computer-go: Engineering (was: Most simple Go rules)
>
>
> At 02:52 PM 6/27/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
> >Your  protocol  has some  appeal  and  suggests an   OPTIONAL protocol
> >similar to yours which would work fine for  chinese style scoring: let
> >a player pass with a score announcement  and the next player can agree
> >with this score and pass thereby ending the game.  Or he can continue.
>
> This is quite unfair to the first player that passes, since the second
> player has the
> option of accepting an incorrect score that is in his favor.  To be fair,
> each program would have
> to announce a score to the arbiter, and be told if there is a
> disagreement,
> but not which
> score was higher.
>

That will not be necessary. You assume the game ends after two consecutive
passes. The easiest solution is to have the game end after four consecutive
passes. The game could actually end after three consecutive passes, but then
you have to make sure not to punish the player who passed twice by giving
his opponent an extra prisoner.('prisoner', not 'point', so it will work
both with Japanese and Chinese scoring.)