I think your table tennis analogy is not really applicable.
The rule changes in table tennis were presumably motivated
by the need to fix a real problem, and really changed the
game.
Yes, due to the advancements in rubber technology the game become too fast.
"Bumm-Bumm-Over". Furthermore the ball should be easier to spot on TV.
Another way would be to limit the rubbers, but making the ball larger is
easier to control and define.
But it was a significant change. New ball technology had to be developed,
old balls become absolete, the rule is a disadvantage for "Bumm-Bumm"
players...
On the other hand, all the rules arguments in Go are really
only applicable to incredibly marginal, bordering on imaginary
situations. There's no motivation to change the way the game
is actually played.
For computers special cases matter. Especially for a search based programm.
A search based programm finds every possible special case and plays into
this case, because the opponent does not prevent it.
Are there something as Universal accepted computer-Go rules? There is - at
least on paper - a computer FIDE. The IGGA. Is there something as the IGGA
computer-Go ruleset? Are all tournaments played according a well defined and
uniform rule set?
Chrilly
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