Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[birk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> My personal preference would be to have all tournaments use AGA rules 
> :)  This is Chinese scoring, which I like better than Japanese scoring, 
> but keeps a reasonable ko rule.

The Official AGA Rules of Go (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wjh/go/rules/AGA.html)
leave it to the player to decide on whether to use 'area' or 'territory'
counting; and they use 'situational super-ko'.

I agree with Robert that super-ko is NOT too complicated for humans.
(At least in real games) Most decent amateurs can replay their games, 
so it cannot be impossible to detect a super-ko violation.

Christoph