Pseudoliberties, as someone here explained recently, are a count of how many adjacent empty spaces a program would find around a chain of stones
if it didn't bother to correct for how many times the same space gets counted from different directions. example 0 0 . . X X 0 . . X 0 . . 0 . . The X's have two pseudoliberties at the one breathing space 'a2' , arrived at by counting how many X's boarder on a2. ----- Another potentially useful concept... the "liberties" of an empty point. Two kinds, black and white. ie, If a black [white] stone were played at the point, how many liberties would the resulting chain have? A little more complex to compute, I'd expect, but it ought to be a useful tactical heuristic. Forrest Curo ----------------------------------------- This email was sent using AIS WebMail. http://www.americanis.net/ _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
