There are a fair number of joseki variations which have branches where you are not supposed to play X because you lose a capturing race. Initiate such a variation, leave it unfinished, move on to the next corner, repeat. Terry McIntyre <[email protected]>
Unix/Linux Systems Administration Taking time to do it right saves having to do it twice. ----- Original Message ---- > From: Stefan Kaitschick <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, September 15, 2010 3:38:48 AM > Subject: Re: [Computer-go] anti-pondering > > Actually, trying to beat a bot with any special strategy doesn't make a lot > of >sense. > Just play your best go and be happy that you have an interesting opponent. > I know that there is a track record of people initially losing against a > bot, >and beating it afterwards. > But that is mainly due to the respect the bot has earned for the things it >does well, attacking and moyo building. > Pathological weaknesses should be of more interest to the programmers than > to >anybody else. > The semeai problem is a tough nut for 2 reasons: > 1. As David Fotland has stated, if one side has to play in a certain order > and >the other side can play in any order, playouts are strongly biased towards >the >side that has many possible moves. > 2. Semeais are relatively simple to solve in isolation, but not when >irrelevant plays in other parts of the board are intermixed with the analysis. > This is very hard to solve, because in most other contexts global search is > an >important mc strength, not a weakness. > > Stefan > > Am 15.09.2010 05:27, schrieb Jeff Nowakowski: > > On 09/14/2010 04:36 PM, terry mcintyre wrote: > >> From my observations of human-versus-bot games, a winning strategy > >> against >bots > >> seems to be: > >> > >> Create several capturing races, even if you lose all of them. > > > > Is there an established, reliable way to create capturing races against >bots? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Computer-go mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > > > > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go > _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
