Somewhere online, I played a game on a torus, against someone's Java applet that has this option. I seem to recall playing a normal game at either 9x9 or 13x13, and then a game on the same-sized torus. I recall the first game as being somewhat challenging to me, (a beginner) and the second game to be somewhat hard to visualize, but quite easy to beat the computer opponent. Of course, it is possible that my experience in the first game helped me significantly in the second one, so it doesn't mean much. However, I was puzzled at the time because I had expected my inability to visualize the interactions across the edge of the board to be a huge handicap, relative to a program that presumably has no such difficulty.
Weston On 2/20/07, steve uurtamo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
here's my first guess at don's question about how this would affect the game. my intuition is weak here, but i'll take a stab at it just for fun. no edges, no corners and no center mean that you're effectively playing in the "middle" at all times. this should mean that life would be harder to make and that scores would be much lower. certainly komi would have to change. my gut is that it'd be a harder game and that there aren't any cheap clever tricks that would reduce it to a simplistic game. someone with a very powerful 9x9 MC player could run a few thousand games to see what would happen. oh, and keeping track of symmetry would really be annoying, since translations would have to be taken into account as well. oops, this changes my intuition -- this means that many, many more board positions are identical, which should vastly reduce the complexity of the game. :) s. ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
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