Mark Boon wrote:
This protocol is for Chinese playing, not Japanese. It's broken if a program plays Japanese. But if 2 players sit down and one is playing Japanese and one Chinese, then it's a problem anyway, you have the equivalent of a disagreement on the end game protocol before you even begin.
A one point penalty for playing a pass makes it work for Japanese rules too, without affecting the score.
If you mean the official Japanese rules, then there's also the issue of any group with dame being in seki and not getting any points. So I'll assume you mean the simpler territory scoring. If the protocol ends with scoring all stones alive, then the territory score simply equals the area score adjusted by the difference in number of stones played. That is not necessarily the same as the difference in number of passes, due to handicap stones or black playing both the first and last move. If the protocol ends with agreement then it didn't really matter what scoring system was used... regards, -John _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/