Song wrote: > Hi, All. Thank you very much. > > So Suicide is legal in Ying and New Zealand rules, > but is illegal in Chinese and Japanese and AGA and CGOS rules, > > I have heard Chinese and Japanese rules are the most important rulesets in GO > world. > Then why we are discussing it so seriously ? > I think there are many variations of each ruleset. I would love to see the whole world standardize on one ruleset but this could never happen because the world would never agree on what that should be!
For instance I believe it should be CGOS rules :-) CGOS but with allowance for early passing and agreement for human play. - Don > Song > > > >> Nick Wedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Song >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>> Suicide is illegal in Chinese rules and Japanese rules, isn't it ? >>> >> Yes. But suicide is legal under Ing (SST) rules, and under New Zealand >> rules. >> >> An unscrupulous program, finding itself in a poor position while playing >> under Ing or NZ rules, may try to play a suicide move in the hope that >> its opponent will refuse to play on. It's generally easy to find a >> suicide move: find your opponent's smallest solid eye having more than >> one point in it, and on successive moves fill this eye until it is full. >> >> Nick >> -- >> Nick Wedd [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> _______________________________________________ >> computer-go mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
