Almost any strategy other than playing out all legal moves
involves a lot of hand waving that is unlikely to be
accepted as a proof. There are just too many cases where
a pitch inside a captured space has global effects.
Completely solving small goboards seems like a strange quest to me.
Certainly there is no hope of scaling this upwards, so what's the point?
When nine men's morris was solved, I thought this was interesting, but tiny
go boards just don't make my blood boil.
But what I do find interesting about this, is the question of terminating
playouts. This is relevant for large boards also.
And somehow I don't ever see comments anywhere suggesting that this could be
a problem. So what I'd like to know is: is this so trivial that no one ever
mentions it, or are the heuristics that programs use to terminate playouts
so obscure that they are too embarrasing to mention?
Stefan Kaitschick
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