At 05:22 PM 11/6/2007, Ray Tayek wrote: >At 03:50 PM 11/6/2007, you wrote: >>... in a typical >>endgame board under Japanese rules, the number of unconditionally >>alive stones is zero. > >maybe for pro games. for amatuer 1-kyu to 10-kyu games, i suspect that after >about 1/2 of the moves in the entire game have been made, enough groups are a >few stones away from being benson alive that it would be worthwhile to find >these.
The whole problem is to determine what ought to be considered dead. Finding a group that needs a few more stones to be completely alive doesn't help at all, because you have to do a full board search to find out if those moves could actually be made. A strategy that starts by anchoring the determination in unconditionally alive groups starts with nothing. _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
