My new book Capturing Races 1 http://home.snafu.de/jasiek/Capturing_Races.html can be of interest for people in computer go for mainly these reasons:
1) It is essential reading for expert system programmers or those wishing to understand some of the Go theory knowledge they rely on. The book invents a complete classification of semeais with two basic groups, that is semeais without kos, without approach defects and with carefully described border conditions. You'll find all the necessary definitions of terms (from 'semeai eye' via 'stable' to 'semeai class 1'), assumptions of the cases, principles for their outcomes and a new, now well designed 'semeai formula'. Although, in comparison to earlier research articles or books, it is a great advancement of basic semeai theory (e.g., the 'strong' eyes of classes 1 to 6 do not restrict themselves to a 'plain liberty' requirement), only later volumes will solve move order and (endgame) values (and attack the more advanced topics of kos and approach defects).
2) The book's contents makes an essential conribution to - what in some centuries might become - a complete human reasoning solution of Go and its theory. While Wolf, Müller et al prefer to create computer understable solutions of semeai theory with tricks for calculation time or huge databases, my static status assessment results are suitable also for the human players and their improvement in playing strength.
-- robert jasiek _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
