Re: computer-go: Spirit of the game

[Robert Jasiek <jasiek@xxxxxxxx>]

Alberto Rezza wrote:
> most players seem to prefer some kind of Japanese rules.

How do you get such knowledge? Surely there are more Chinese
than Japanese people...

> not be too difficult to modify Japanese rules in this way: at the end of a
> game, you play L&D situations out until the agreement between the players is
> confirmed beyond any doubt; then you SCORE the game as if these moves had not
> been played.

Be careful that you do not produce any side effects like dame
of different values, depending on how many seki groups might be
adjacent! You must prove non-existence of side effects. Which
moves do not affect the score, i.e. when do you pass so as to
separate moves affecting and not affecting the score? Is there
a fight for not passing first?

It is wishful thinking that playing out traditional Japanese
style would be possible. No one has been able to prove that
it could work without side effects.

The only known solution is to make Japanese scoring equivalent
to area scoring by using pass stones and white passing last.
However, then it is area scoring.

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robert jasiek