[computer-go] Positions illustrative of computer stupidity ?

[Peter Drake]

One could use the heuristic that the outside is larger than the  
inside, but perhaps a situation can be created where this is not  
true. This might even be something beginning Go players could see/ 
understand.

Peter Drake
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Lewis & Clark College
http://www.lclark.edu/~drake/




On Nov 22, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Chrilly wrote:

> Attached is a very simple position which adresses the problem of  
> what is inside and what is outside. A seemingly logical definition  
> of inside is that the point is enclosed by stones of one color and/ 
> or the border. Or the fireman-algorithm. If one traverses along an  
> own wall and/or the border in the same direction and comes back to  
> the point. But in the given position a3 and all the other 257  
> intersections are according this definition  also "inside". It  
> would never come to the mind of a human player the the 3 black  
> stones enclose the 257 intersections.
> The message is: Tasks which are for a human completly trivial are  
> hard to formalize.
>
> Chrilly
> <InsideOutside.sgf>
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