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



In message <3B408524.FD9C5343@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christian Nentwich
<c.nentwich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

>That's the whole point. This protocol defines the semantics of dead. If
>black can't demonstrate life, the stones are dead, no scope for arguing.

You have this the wrong way round.  You can demonstrate that something
is dead by killing it.  You can only demonstrate life by the absence of
a demonstration of deadness.

Nick
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Nick Wedd