Heikki Levanto wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:12:26PM -0500, Don Dailey wrote:
>> There is no question that there are positions where suicide or eye
>> filling are correct.
>
> I know suicide can be used as a ko-threat, but are there *any* other
> positions where it would be a correct move?
Yes, but as far as I know only in obscure positions.
http://www.goban.demon.co.uk/go/bestiary/rule_challenge.html is
mandatory reading.
> If not, then it makes sense to forbid that in a random playout, since
it is
> "just" a forcing move, and the (equally) random opponent is quite
unlikely to
> answer the right way anyway. So the suicide move may look like a
better move
> than it really is.
>
>
> I can not think of any situation where filling a one-point eye would be a
> correct move (provided that it is a "real" eye and not a "false" one).
>
>
> Can anyone come with concrete examples?
This has been discussed before on this list. See e.g.
http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2006-August/006180.html
http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/2006-August/006203.html
/Gunnar
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