Re: [computer-go] Reasoning about the board

[William Harold Newman <william.newman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 06:34:57PM -0700, William M. Shubert wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:44 -0700, Peter Drake wrote:
> ...
> > Consider this situation:
> > 
> > 
> > .....
> > .....
> > BBBBB
> > wwwww
> > w.B..
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The system realizes that playing to the right of the black stone makes
> > an eye in the corner, but it doesn't realize it can capture the black
> > stone for a second eye.  The problem is that the effect of capturing
> > the black stone depends on playing BOTH moves.  Thus, simple STRIPS
> > operators (with their add and delete lists) are not sufficient.
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> H'mmm, maybe I don't really understand what you want (I don't know what
> STRIPS are for example), 

FWIW, _Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach_ is a very nice
overview book which not only can tell you (and/or curious lurkers)
about STRIPS and planners and so forth directly, but also gives many
pointers into the literature.

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