Suicide issue is discussed here in the context of game evaluation, not game playing. For the purpose of game evaluation, one can do the simualtion anyway one want?to as long as it gives a good evaluation value.
DL -----Original Message----- From: Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: computer-go <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 7:21 am Subject: Re: [computer-go] Suicide question 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 ? 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/ ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
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