Re: [computer-go] On average how many boardupdates/sec cantop Goprograms do these days?

2008-01-16 Thread Christoph Birk
On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:05 PM, Harri Salakoski wrote: This is a mistake. There are often moves that are illegal for black that are big for white. If you don't let white play there, white can lose a lot of points. Connections through false eyes are one example. Yep agree that, knowing that

Re: [computer-go] On average how many boardupdates/sec cantop Goprograms do these days?

2008-01-16 Thread Mark Boon
On 16-jan-08, at 11:54, Christoph Birk wrote: I think this is very wrong, like allowing suicide. If you allow (or forbid) moves that cannot really (should) be played in the random games you are not sampling the true status of the board. I think most people take a much too dogmatic point of

Re: [computer-go] On average how many boardupdates/sec cantop Goprograms do these days?

2008-01-16 Thread Don Dailey
Mark Boon wrote: On 16-jan-08, at 11:54, Christoph Birk wrote: I think this is very wrong, like allowing suicide. If you allow (or forbid) moves that cannot really (should) be played in the random games you are not sampling the true status of the board. I think most people take a much

Re: [computer-go] On average how many boardupdates/sec cantop Goprograms do these days?

2008-01-15 Thread Harri Salakoski
-go' computer-go@computer-go.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 8:56 AM Subject: RE: [computer-go] On average how many boardupdates/sec cantop Goprograms do these days? If a point is illegal for black, are you saying that black can never play at that point, or are you saying white can