Re: computer-go: 5x5 Go is solved?

[Myriam Abramson <mabramso@xxxxxxx>]

> Ray Tayek <rtayek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> as i was reading these posts, it occurred to me that there are many
> positions in go that are equivalent. for example, if a group has two
> eyes and big eye, white could have a variable number of stones
> inside. these positions would be all equivalent in some sense. i was
> wondering if that would partition the set of board positions into a
> smaller set of equivalence classes?
> 
> has anyone done this type of thing in a program? was it useful?
> 

If I understand your question correctly, that's the subject of my
research. Here's an old paper 
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/abramson01competitive.html. 
I have made some progress since then that I hope to publish soon. 

                                   myriam