Dan wrote: > It seems to me that unless it is to make a ko threat, > a snapback capture is never the correct move. This is a > sanity check that is easy to implement reliably. Maybe > after the trymove at value_moves.c:887 one should bail > out if the move is a snapback capture.
This is too optimistic. White to kill black: +---------+ |.........| |OOOOOOO..| |OXXXX.O..| |XXOOX.O..| |XO.OXXO..| |XOO.OXO..| |OXOOOXO..| |O.XXXXO..| |OOXOOOO..| +---------+ I'm sure there are less weird positions where playing into snapback is correct as well. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ gnugo-devel mailing list gnugo-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnugo-devel