Re: computer-go: Ko and solving 5 x 5 perfect play

["Andrew Derrick Balsa" <andrebalsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:39:34 +0200, "Robert Jasiek" <jasiek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
> 
> 
> Andrew Derrick Balsa wrote:
> > Intuitively I have a feeling that perfect play is orthogonal with Ko
> > rules.
> 
> What do you mean here?

I mean that (without any proof of whether this is true or false) my gut
feeling is that finding a solution for the problem of perfect play for
any board size can be made independent of the set of rules used to avoid
infinite loops (kos).

Or in other words, that I would rather try to find solutions for perfect
play with a simple set of ko rules (as Erik did), and having solved that,
worry about what happens to my solution if I change the rules of ko,
because my - sorry - intuition is the only word I have for that - is that
the solution does not change.


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