> And what is the connection between the number of "positions" and the number > of games
The number of games is at most 361^#positions. > or even solving games? In the game trees we do not care about > positions, but about situations. We care about lots of things, including intersections, stones, liberties, strings, positions, sets of previous positions. > I'm actually surprised that this "absurd" to you... I said that referring to a board configuration together with the set of all previously occurring board configurations (and turn to move) as "position" is absurd. We need a simple word to denote a board configuration, and "position" fits that requirement. A good word for all the relevant historical information leading up to a position is "situation". -John _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
