[Computer-go] Some newbie questions

[Peter Drake]

Yes. The thought is that situations like this are so rare that missing  
the right move in these situations is vastly outweighed by the number  
of bad moves eliminated in other situations.

(I don't know if some programs consider a move like this if all other  
moves seem to lose.)

Not playing in your own (possible) eyes has an additional benefit:  
without this rule in playouts, the board doesn't "crystalize" into a  
collection of live groups. Only the superko rule ends the playouts,  
which therefore take much longer.

Peter Drake
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/




On Jan 3, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Stefan Kaitschick wrote:

>
>> One basic trick almost everyone uses is to never play in a  
>> "possible eye", which is a vacant point surrounded orthogonally by  
>> friendly stones, with no more than one (away from the edge) or zero  
>> (at the edge or corner) diagonal neighbors occupied by enemy stones.
>>
>
> Just curious. Does this mean that x cant kill o at #?
>
> #xxox....
> xxoox....
> .oo.x....
> oo.x.....
> ..x......
> xx.......
> .........
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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