Re: [computer-go] Legal Configuration

[Mark Boon <tesuji@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heikki Levanto wrote:

> > There isn't as long as pass is a legal move at any point in the game, in 
> > which case determining legal positions is trivial: the set of illegal 
> > positions is equal to the positions with chains without liberties.
> >    
> Depends a bit on suicide rules, and if prisoners count, but a borderline
> case could be a totally empty board, one side with some prisoners, and
> the other side without. or totally empty board, and number of black
> prisoners greater than one and less that 361.
>
> Of course, chinese rules solve these situations, as prisoners don't
> count (don't figure in the position), and suicide is allowed.
>  
No, it doesn't have anything to do with rules, prisoners or suicide, 
only with pass.
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