Re: computer-go: Most simple Go rules

[David Fotland <fotland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:33 PM 6/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> 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'.
This is correct, but the use of pass stones means that no matter which way 
they count, they are
using Chinese scoring :)  There is no penalty for playing inside your own 
territory after the
dame are filled.


> 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.
I guess we will not agree here :)  I think that a pro playing with superko, 
could set up a
position where it would be very difficult to remember which kos had been 
taken in what order.


> Christoph
David Fotland