every point having 4 liberties would seem to make the opening
much more about influence. my guess is that it's an easier game.
(but that's just wild speculation).
s.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:30 PM, David Doshay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First move is easy, but depending upon ratio of diameter
Dear Urban,
thx for the quick reply.
does there exist a generalisation of the sgf-format
for rectangular board sizes?
What exactly do you mean by generalization? You can
use SZ[1] to define the size of your rectangular board.
[1] http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/properties.html#SZ
I did not
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Ingo Althöfer wrote:
I did not know about the notion SZ[m:n] for rectangular boards.
And neither do at least some publicly available Go programs.
I tried to enter SZ[3:5] into ManyFaces (version 10) and
in Leela, without success. They simply
Urban Hafner wrote:
Ah, right. I thought you were talking about implementing this feature
for your own program. Personally I don't know of any program that
supports rectangular boards.
There was a recent thread on GoDiscussions about this topic:
Would go on a torus be interesting? There are not corners or edges, the
sides of the board simply wrap around.
- Don
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 09:52 -0700, Ross Werner wrote:
Urban Hafner wrote:
Ah, right. I thought you were talking about implementing this feature
for your own program.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would go on a torus be interesting? There are not corners or edges, the
sides of the board simply wrap around.
- Don
Yes, it's probably similar in spirit to regular go, except everything
feels like the center of the board.
First move is easy, but depending upon ratio of diameter to length
of torus, ladders can get complicated.
Cheers,
David
On 19, Sep 2008, at 10:48 AM, Álvaro Begué wrote:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Don Dailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would go on a torus be interesting? There are not
